Creative Design Lead

This Role is 100% Remote

Salary Range: $95-105K

Aquent Studios is seeking a Design Lead to join our embedded studio supporting a leading aerospace and defense organization. In this role, you'll be the strategic creative lead for an assigned business unit-guiding concept development, elevating brand expression, and ensuring that every deliverable aligns with mission-driven goals and strict brand standards.

This is an exceptional opportunity to influence high-impact work, partner with top-tier creative and marketing teams, and help shape communications that may support critical national security programs.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the primary creative and brand point of contact for an assigned business or business area.
• Provide creative direction across projects of varying complexity and channels.
• Partner with business stakeholders to define creative strategy and refine project briefs including scope.
• Facilitate brainstorming and creative kickoffs with designers, writers, approved vendors and other business groups.
• Ensure all creative outputs meet project goals, client expectations and brand standards.

• Present creative concepts to partners and clearly communicate revisions to the project team.
• Work with the internal Creative team and/or external partners to establish clear expectations and resource needs.
• Develop sketches, mockups or applied layouts to guide visual direction.
• Execute high-level strategic projects from start to finish, while supporting additional assignments as needed.
• Provide brand and creative quality control prior to requester or partner reviews.
• Maintain project communication and approvals using Workfront (WF).

• Build strong relationships with the Communications and Integrated Marketing teams.
• Partner effectively with the Aquent Studios support team dedicated to the account.
• Ensure brand consistency across all deliverables; act as a brand ambassador for the client.
• Select and collaborate with approved vendors, ensuring quality and alignment with project requirements.
• Support your primary business unit with the flexibility to assist other teams as needed.

What You Bring

• Proven experience in creative direction, brand management and art direction-preferably in complex, technical, or regulated industries.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual development, visual storytelling, and multi-channel creative leadership.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and maintain exceptional attention to detail.
• Highly skilled in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Powerpoint in a Windows environment.
• Ensure resource alignment according to client expectations, content scope, and final deliverables, leveraging existing resources or independently executing the full project lifecycle as needed.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors.
• Familiarity with Workfront (WF) is a plus.

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