Director, Creative & Brand

About the Team: Our Creative team shapes how a category leader shows up during the most interesting stretch of its story. The problems are real, the audience is smart, the leadership team is invested in creativity, and there's genuine room to leave a mark on a brand that thousands of enterprises already trust. Role Purpose & ImpactWe're looking for a Creative Director to own the creative direction and evolution of the Druva brand across everything we make. This is the person who decides how Druva looks, feels, moves, and lands, from the brand system itself to campaigns, video, web, events, product marketing, and the stories our executives tell on the world's biggest stages. It's a rare combination of canvas and craft. You'll inherit a strong, growing brand in a category that's being reinvented in real time by AI, and you'll have the mandate to push it somewhere sharper and braver. You'll lead our in-house creative team, set the bar for creative excellence, and partner across marketing, product, and leadership to make Druva show up with the clarity and confidence of a company defining what resilience means in the AI era. We're especially excited to meet creative leaders who are AI-forward. These are people who have genuinely rewired how they and their teams work, using AI to compress timelines, expand exploration, and kill the busywork, without ever letting the human craft, taste, and originality slip. We want more ideas and better craft, not faster sameness. This role reports to the VP of Corporate Marketing and is based at our Santa Clara headquarters on a hybrid schedule.

What You'll Do: Own the creative direction and evolution of the Druva brand, from visual language and motion to tone and expression, ensuring consistency, quality, and ambition across every touchpoint: digital, physical, video, and experiential. Lead, mentor, and grow the skills of the in-house creative team, managing designers, video, and web creative talent while building a culture of craft, collaboration, and creative courage. You'll develop people, not just approve work. Stay hands-on. You'll run the studio and get in the file. The best ideas here will often be yours, executed by you, at the level you're asking of everyone else. Translate deeply technical concepts into creative that connects, turning agentic AI, data security, cyber resilience, and platform architecture into visual storytelling that a CIO, a CISO, and a backup admin all immediately understand. Set the AI-forward creative operating model. Evaluate, adopt, and responsibly govern AI tools across concepting, production, and iteration; establish clear standards for where AI accelerates the work and where the human hand is non-negotiable; teach the team to use these tools well. Lead brand-defining creative moments, including product launches, category campaigns, flagship events, and analyst and customer storytelling, from concept through execution. Serve as creative partner to our executives, shaping keynote visuals, executive storytelling, and thought leadership so our leaders show up with a distinctive, unmistakably Druva point of view. Set the creative direction for druva.com and our digital experience, designing web that pops off the page. We want pages people remember: bold, expressive, unmistakably premium, and nothing like the templated enterprise sites we compete against. Own video and motion creative, from product explainers and customer stories to brand films and social content, setting the creative vision for animation across channels. Define the creative vision for Druva's presence at global events and tradeshows, partnering with our events team to deliver immersive, on-brand experiences that people remember after the badge comes off. Partner closely with Product Marketing, Corporate Comms, PR, AR, Social, and Demand Gen, so the visual and editorial identity move as one system rather than a set of one-offs. Establish and run a clear creative operating model covering briefing, intake, review cycles, and quality standards, using Asana to make prioritization, capacity, and status visible to the whole business. Manage creative resourcing, agency relationships, and production budgets, knowing when to build in-house and when to buy. Maintain and evolve the Druva brand guidelines and design system, keeping them living and usable rather than a PDF nobody opens. Track and communicate the impact of creative on brand awareness, engagement, and campaign performance.

Why You'll Love Working Here: Innovation is how we operate, not a side project. You'll work in a culture that values bold thinking and continuous improvement, where global teams experiment, iterate, and turn new ideas into products customers can rely on. If you're looking for high-ownership work, visible impact, and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, accountability, and growth—where you'll be trusted to lead and empowered to build—you'll thrive at Druva.

What We Offer: The pay range for this position is expected to be between $196,000 and $274,667/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized, non-discriminatory factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, and equity. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time. Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates: For information on personal data processing, please see our Druva Privacy PolicyDruva is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at recruiting_us@druva.comEEO IS THE LAWNOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYEE RIGHTS UNDER FEDERAL LABOR LAWS