Creative Director

Marcus & Millichap is seeking a visionary and hands-on Creative Director to lead a diverse team of designers and marketers located across North America. This role is pivotal in shaping and elevating the brand presence of Marcus & Millichap and its subsidiaries. You will guide the creation of high-impact visual communications and marketing campaigns that span individual property sales collateral through master brand strategy and everything in between.

The ideal candidate is both a creative producer and an inspiring mentor, equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design, as they are presenting strategic concepts to senior executives. You will oversee a growing team of 10-15 marketing professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and brand consistency.

Why Join Us?

At Marcus & Millichap, you’ll play a pivotal role in how we communicate our value - internally and externally - during a time of growth and innovation. You’ll work alongside a high-performing and collaborative marketing team committed to excellence, creativity, and impact

• Direct and produce visual content across channels including print collateral, campaigns, and digital assets with excellence and consistency.
• Influence and lead the evolution of brand strategy by translating positioning, messaging, and business objectives into compelling visual concepts, campaigns, and design systems.
• Translate business goals into clear creative strategies and oversee their execution from concept through delivery.
• Champion the evolution of the company’s visual identity and brand voice across departments and marketing channels.
• Identify and partner with best-in-class vendors and service providers to extend team capabilities, scale content development, and drive broader brand impact across markets.
• Manage, coach, and mentor a multi-location team of graphic designers and property marketing specialists with varying levels of experience.
• Establish and uphold best practices in production workflows, versioning, and asset delivery to meet high-volume demand with speed, accuracy, and brand consistency.
• Foster a team environment that values creativity, accountability, ongoing learning, and high performance.
• Partner with the Director of Strategy and Planning to set timelines and manage project prioritization.
• Promote professional development and creative excellence across the team.
• Provide dotted-line oversight to offshore graphic design partners, ensuring adherence to brand standards, production quality, and timely asset delivery across global time zones.
• Collaborate with marketing, strategy, UX/UI, and IS teams to deliver brand-aligned creative across campaigns, internal tools, and digital products.
• Partner closely with corporate and property marketing staff, as well as external vendors, to ensure brand continuity and scalable execution.
• Confidently present creative direction and campaign concepts to senior leadership, aligning messaging with business priorities and timelines.
• Serve as the visual and conceptual gatekeeper for the Marcus & Millichap brand and its affiliated entities.
• Oversee updates to branding systems, templates, and corporate collateral, ensuring consistent visual language and scalability.
• Keep pace with design trends and marketing best practices, bringing innovative thinking to the team.
• Evaluate and implement AI-driven design tools and production workflows that enhance output quality and brand consistency across high-volume print and digital materials.

• 6–10 years of progressive experience in design, branding, or creative direction, ideally in real estate, agency, or a corporate marketing setting.
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring creative teams in a remote or multi-location environment.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma/Sketch, and presentation tools (e.g., PowerPoint).
• Strong portfolio showcasing both strategic campaigns and refined execution across print and digital.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience leading large-scale brand projects and developing visual systems.
• Familiarity with AI tools for design or marketing workflows is a plus.
• Knowledge of or willingness to quickly learn commercial real estate industry terminology and dynamics.
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Our mission is to help our clients create and preserve wealth by providing the best real estate investment sales, financing, research, and advisory services available.

Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI) is a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm focusing exclusively on investment sales, financing, research, and advisory services, with nearly 1,700 investment sales and financing professionals in 80+ offices throughout the United States and Canada.  

Marcus & Millichap closes more transactions than any other real estate investment brokerage firm nationwide. In 2024, the firm closed 7,836 transactions with a sales volume of approximately $49 billion.

The firm has perfected a powerful property marketing system that integrates broker specialization by property type and market area; the industry’s most comprehensive investment research; a long-standing culture of information sharing; relationships with the largest pool of qualified investors; and state-of-the-art technology that matches buyers and sellers.

Marcus & Millichap provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without discrimination with regard to race, religious belief (including dress or grooming practices), color, sex, sex stereotype, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including breast feeding), age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identification and expression, transgender status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, genetic information, family care, marital status, enrollment in any public assistance program, status as military, a veteran or qualified disabled veteran, status as an unpaid intern or volunteer, or any other classification protected by law. We also prohibit discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. In addition to federal law requirements, Marcus & Millichap complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.