Y Combinator Creative Director / Associate Creative Director
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Description
Superside is seeking visionary Creative Directors/Associate Creative Directors to guide a globally distributed team across branding, ad and social creative, presentations, print, and landing pages. In this high-impact role, you’ll shape the future of AI-enhanced creativity by integrating generative tools into our design workflows, elevating both quality and efficiency.
You’ll lead by example as both a maker and a mentor, balancing hands-on creative work with strategic guidance. Collaborating with some of the world’s most ambitious brands, you’ll inspire cross-functional teams, develop human-centered creative strategies, and help build a scalable design practice rooted in experimentation, feedback, and continuous improvement.
What you'll do
- Generate concepts and assets using AI tools (image generation, text-to-design, layout automation) that align with brand identity and campaign goals.
- Refine and develop prompts to drive high-quality creative output across multiple formats and visual styles.
- Collaborate across creative disciplines to integrate AI-generated content into production, driving process innovation and knowledge-sharing.
- Lead multidisciplinary projects from ideation to final delivery, ensuring consistency, originality, and impact.
- Provide clear creative direction and hands-on feedback, helping your team connect execution with intent.
- Coach, mentor, and elevate team members by modeling emotional intelligence, inclusivity, and thoughtful communication.
- Champion experimentation, encouraging a test-and-learn mindset that balances speed with craft.
- Lead client-facing conversations, presenting ideas with clarity and building trust through creative rationale and empathy.
- Foster a psychologically safe team culture, recognizing contributions, embracing diverse perspectives, and creating space for growth.
- Identify opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and guide clients toward cohesive, insight-led creative solutions.
What you'll need to succed
- Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to express creative ideas clearly and supportively.
- 5+ years of experience as a creative lead or similar, with a strong history of guiding diverse, multidisciplinary teams.
- Advanced skills in design tools, including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and presentation platforms.
- Proficient in using AI tools as part of a thoughtful and intentional creative workflow.
- Experience leading project teams, mentoring peers, and contributing to a shared creative vision.
- Skilled in giving and receiving feedback with empathy and professionalism.
- Comfortable engaging with internal and external partners in both creative and strategic discussions.
- A strong portfolio showcasing creative excellence across branding, presentations, and advertising, with examples of AI-enhanced work.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail, creative integrity, and team well-being.
Why Join us?
Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.
Remote-first. Customer-led.
Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
Global team, local impact.
Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.
High performance, low ego.
Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.
Impact meets opportunity.
We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.
Grow fast. Lead well.
You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.
About Superside
Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Skills
As published by lever · 13 questions · 4 written answers
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website, What is your age range?, I identify my ethnicity asSelect all that apply, What gender do you identify as?, Do you identify as a person with any form of disability? Whether visible or not visible.
Pick from a list (9)
- English is our working language internally. We brief, discuss and present technical ideas/work in English. How would you rate your own English capabilities?
- Where will you be working from?
- Do you have a valid work permit to work in the country where you plan to work from?
- Do you have any relatives (blood or in law) who work at Superside, or are currently in the interviewing process with Superside? Please note that friends and previous colleagues are not considered relatives
- Have we met at one of these events? optional
- Do you have experience with, or a strong interest in, node-based generation tools like ComfyUI and Weavy?
- What is your proficiency level in Figma?
- Which areas of design do you regularly work in? optional
- Were you contacted by a Talent Acquisition Partner to apply for this role?
Written answers (4)
- If yes, please mention their name, and the relationship you have with them (e.g., spouse, brother) optional
- Do you have experience leading multidisciplinary teams?
- List ALL the AI tools you use frequently (name + version/model if known). For each, give one sentence summary of what it’s best for.
- Please provide portfolio links showing design work that used AI tools. Indicate which pieces used AI and how. (Format: URL + one line per piece: tool used + role you played)