Associate Creative Director

About Us:

The Mind Company is at the forefront of mental fitness and firmly believes that caring for your mind is just as important as caring for your body.

We have a portfolio of award-winning, science-backed apps built to bring mental fitness to every mind, every day. Through Elevate, Balance, and the upcoming Spark app, The Mind Company helps millions of people around the world improve key cognitive and mental wellness skills. Elevate, named Apple’s App of the Year, boosts real-world skills like reading, math, and memory through engaging brain training games and puzzles. Balance, selected as Google Play’s Best App, delivers personalized meditations and wellness tools to reduce stress, improve sleep, sharpen focus, and much more. And Spark, coming soon, makes learning and discovery feel effortless through delightful daily puzzles designed to expand your knowledge of the world.

The Mind Company is a fully remote company of voracious learners and passionate doers, driven by our vision to bring mental fitness to every mind, every day.

If our mission resonates with you, please consider applying!

The Role:

We are seeking an Associate Creative Director to define and evolve The Mind Company's brands and creative expression across our portfolio of mental fitness apps — Balance, Elevate, and Spark. This role blends visionary leadership with hands-on creative execution: you will set the creative direction for our brand identity, campaigns, and content, while also designing, writing, and editing assets yourself.

Your mission is to establish a world-class creative function, ensuring that everything we make — from brand campaigns to product storytelling — embodies our voice and reinforces our mission of bringing mental fitness to every mind, every day.

This is a fully remote position anywhere in North or South America, reporting to the VP of Marketing.

How You’ll Make an Impact Here:

Creative Direction & Brand Identity

• Serve as the brand’s creative steward, leading the development and evolution of The Mind Company's visual identity, voice, and design systems.

• Translate strategy into world-class creative concepts and campaigns that drive brand recognition, trust, and cultural relevance.

• Ensure Balance, Elevate, and Spark share a unified brand family look and feel, while retaining their own distinct personalities.

Campaigns & Content

• Lead creative for brand campaigns, product launches, partnerships, and integrated marketing moments.

• Craft and refine compelling content across mediums — visual, written, and experiential — that resonates with diverse audiences.

• Elevate our storytelling by balancing strategy with creativity, and insight with inspiration.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product and marketing teams to ensure creative is impactful, cohesive, and aligned with business goals.

• Provide clear creative direction while also rolling up your sleeves to execute

• Champion creative excellence across every touchpoint where The Mind Company shows up.

Innovation & Optimization

• Stay ahead of creative trends, platforms, and tools to keep the brand fresh and relevant.

• Use data, research, and user insights to refine creative direction and maximize impact.

• Experiment with AI and emerging technologies to accelerate impactful design and storytelling.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven track record as an Associate Creative Director or senior creative leader in brand, design, or content.

• A standout portfolio showcasing brand campaigns, design systems, and storytelling that blend strategy with craft.

• Hands-on creative ability in design (Figma/Adobe) and copywriting/editing.

• Experience leading and mentoring creative teams, agencies, or freelancers.

• Strong storytelling skills across visual, written, and digital mediums.

• Ability to translate data, insights and strategy into creative concepts that drive cultural resonance and business impact.

• Excellent taste, with an eye for detail and design consistency.

• Collaborative leadership style, comfortable working across teams and disciplines.

• Comfort in lean, fast-moving environments where you both lead and create.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with consumer brands in health, wellness, or education.

• Knowledge of performance-driven creative and integrated brand/marketing campaigns.

• Familiarity with motion design, video, or experiential creative.

Compensation:

At The Mind Company, we take a thoughtful and equitable approach to compensation with the goal of offering fair and sustainable salaries to all employees. We use a market-based, pay-for-performance compensation model that we update annually with high-quality industry compensation data.

The full salary range for this role is $88,000-$165,000 USD, but a subset of the range will be used based on each candidate’s location. Final compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and location.

Finally, we believe that people should be paid equitably for their expected (and then actual) contributions rather than negotiation skills. To that end, we give all successful candidates our “first and best” offer, and have a no-negotiation policy. We also provide all employees with consistent opportunities to receive compensation increases in line with their contributions and impact throughout their tenure.

How We Hire:

At The Mind Company, we seek to build high-impact teams with high talent density, and we invest a lot of time and care into the hiring process. Your resume will be reviewed by a human, so we encourage you to keep resumes short (one page should do) and submit it as a PDF.

You can expect both a take-home skills assessment and behavioral interviews, during which you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your expertise.

Please note that all communication with applicants will be sent from themindcompany.com or our Applicant Tracking System, Ashby (ashbyhq.com). The Mind Company will never ask you to create a Microsoft Teams or any other online account before your interview process begins, and we do not communicate with candidates via WhatsApp. If you are asked to provide information and do not believe it is a legitimate request from The Mind Company, please contact [email protected] to validate before proceeding.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

We believe that there is no single candidate profile that guarantees success in this role. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. If your background is similar to the job description and you think you can excel in this role, please apply and tell us about yourself and the impact you could make at The Mind Company.

We also know that diversity of identity, experience, and thought leads to more creativity, better problem-solving, and wiser decisions, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to our team. We are an equal opportunity employer; committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We highly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, and people with disabilities.