Associate Creative Director

Associate Creative Director

Are you looking for a place where you can bring your passion for transforming creative concepts into production-ready deliverables while maintaining brand consistency across print, digital, and emerging media?

Welcome to Neighborly—the hub of service brands that connects customers to top-notch local experts who repair, maintain, and enhance homes and businesses. Our long-standing business, with over 40 years of experience, is focused on strategic innovation as we build the future of home and business services. Bring your ambition to the table as we unlock new doors together, taking your career to the next level.

Bring your experience and be empowered to innovate.

As an Associate Creative Director on the Brand Marketing team, a typical day for you will include:

• Execute creative assets across print, digital, social media, email, light video, and other marketing channels while maintaining enterprise brand standards.
• Translate creative direction, campaign objectives, and project briefs into polished, production-ready creative deliverables.
• Contribute creative concepts, visual solutions, layouts, messaging ideas, and design approaches that support enterprise marketing campaigns.
• Manage assigned creative projects from concept through final production while ensuring quality, accuracy, and timely delivery.
• Apply strong design, typography, art direction, and visual communication principles across all creative work.
• Write, edit, and refine marketing copy using established brand guidelines and AI-supported creative workflows

Bring your skills and be inspired to achieve success.

(Required Qualifications)

Experience:

• 6+ years of progressive experience in creative, graphic design, advertising, or marketing roles.
• Experience executing integrated marketing campaigns across print and digital channels.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to campaign concepts, visual storytelling, and creative development.
• Experience utilizing Adobe Creative Suite to produce production-ready creative assets.
• 1-2 years of experience providing project leadership, mentoring, or informal supervision of creative professionals.
• Experience working in multi-brand, franchise, or agency environments.
• Experience utilizing AI-enabled creative technologies to support creative production.
• Experience with video editing, Adobe Premiere Pro, or After Effects.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Marketing, Fine Arts, or a related field.
• Equivalent combination of education and directly related experience may be considered.

Skills:

• Strong design, visual communication, and art direction skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to balance multiple projects, competing priorities, and tight deadlines within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency using Adobe Creative Suite, AI-enabled creative technologies, and Microsoft Office applications.

Scheduled/in-office requirements:

• Hybrid working model; Monday-Wednesday in office, Thursday/Friday from home.
• Office Locations:
• 500 E John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, Tx
• 1010 N University Parks Drive, Waco, Tx

Bring your goals and be enabled to reach them.

• Competitive Pay: Commensurate with experience
• Schedule: Full-time M-F – 8 AM to 5 PM
• Benefits: Check out our benefits offerings Neighborly | Benefits Guide
• Financial Benefits: Equity and annual bonus opportunities
• Perks: Paid time off, Paid holidays, Recess breaks, wellness programs

Neighborly® is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to their race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal or state law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity and encouraged to be their authentic self.