Staff Art Director

We need a Staff Art Director who can lead the design thinking behind our next national platform — someone who sees a brief and envisions not just a campaign, but a world. TV. Digital. Social. Motion. All of it, all at once, all connected by a single creative spine.

As a Staff Art Director at Realtor.com, you’ll lead creative for high-visibility national campaigns, present to our CMO, and build systems that let brilliant ideas scale without losing their soul. You’ll mentor a team that already does strong work and make them fearless. 

You are a creative powerhouse, capable of crafting "big idea" platforms that resonate emotionally and scale effortlessly. You will co-lead creative with your copy partner and build on the momentum of award-winning work like our Reba McEntire "Nearly Home" brand platform and purpose-driven initiatives like "Mission Zero" for veterans.

What You’ll Do

For the Work

• Craft National Platforms: Co-lead the development of big conceptual idea platforms and integrated campaigns that live across National TV, YouTube, and social ecosystems.
• Drive Brand Narrative: Guide teams through ideation and execution, ensuring all output, from video to digital experiences and display units align with the core idea platform and our brand design language.
• Scale High-Stakes Creative: Build upon successful playbooks and frameworks (like our partner programs and celebrity-led spots) to create the next generation of Realtor.com’s brand moments.
• Systematize Excellence: Leverage AI (Gemini, Claude + Figma MCP) and motion frameworks to build scalable templates and design systems that are a productivity enhancement while staying open to how to use AI in ways that work for creative.
• Direct & Unblock: Lead creative reviews with confidence, providing strategic feedback that connects visual execution back to the creative brief, "big idea" and business goals.

For the Culture

• Mentor & Elevate: Inspire and develop senior and mid-level designers, fostering a culture of curiosity and high-caliber craft.
• Collaborative Leadership: Partner seamlessly with your copy counterpart and Project Manager(s) to maintain a healthy, high-output creative team. 
• Champion Inclusive Design: Ensure our national stories represent the diverse lived experiences of home buyers and veterans everywhere.

Champion our values:

• Embrace ownership—delivering quality, speed, and clarity of communication.
• Push for innovation—testing new formats and approaches in digital and event design.
• Build partnerships across teams—energizing collaborators and driving better outcomes together.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What You Bring

• Big Idea Thinking at Scale — A portfolio proving you have built conceptual platforms that work across TV, digital, and social without falling apart.
• Leadership Credibility — You’re co-led creative teams, presented to C-suite stakeholders, and won the room without being precious.
• Craft + Systems — You can design and think — you see the design system inside the campaign and build both simultaneously.
• 8+ years of professional design experience, with a proven track record of leading national-scale conceptual campaigns, Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

How we Reward you:

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location