AI Creative Director at GHD

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Jun, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Creative Direction, Generative AI, Brand Stewardship, Figma, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Optimization, Team Mentoring, Brand Strategy, Visual Design, ComfyUI, Krea, Freepik Spaces, Concept Development, Asset Adaptation, Creative Leadership, Production Management

Industry

Civil Engineering

Description

At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. Who are we looking for? We are looking for an AI Creative Director to lead the shift to AI-powered creativity across a globally distributed marketing and creative team, spanning brand, advertising, social creative, presentations, print, landing pages, client-facing materials, and other high-value creative outputs. Pivotal to this will be to combine hands-on creative direction, advanced AI capability, and brand stewardship. This role shapes how generative tools are embedded into creative workflows, helping teams improve speed, quality, consistency, and creative range while translating brand strategy into practical systems, assets, templates, examples, and guardrails. Some focus areas will include: * Lead the shift to AI-powered creativity across brand, campaign, social creative, presentations, print, landing pages, and client-facing materials. * Turn brand strategy into practical systems, assets, guardrails, and examples that help teams apply GHD’s identity, messaging, and CVP consistently across creative work. * Translate business, audience, and client insights into distinctive creative concepts that strengthen GHD’s brand and support marketing, business development, and winning work outcomes. * Provide hands-on creative direction, balancing creative ambition, brand integrity, commercial relevance, and practical delivery. * Develop AI-assisted production methods, prompts, templates, and repeatable workflows that help teams produce high-quality creative work more efficiently. * Deliver scalable creative outputs across campaigns, presentations, pursuit materials, landing pages, and other marketing formats for faster adaptation across regions, audiences, and channels. * Coach designers, marketers, and regional teams on practical AI-enabled creative methods, showing where AI can improve speed, quality, iteration, versioning and asset adaptation. * Maintain clear standards for responsible AI use, human creative judgment, consistency, and brand quality. We are looking for: * Ideally Tertiary qualified in Fine Arts, Design, Marketing with 5+ years' experience in creative direction or agency leadership roles, managing multidisciplinary creative or marketing teams * Experience translating brand strategy into practical creative systems, assets, guardrails, and examples that help teams apply the brand consistently. * Credible experience using AI tools in real creative workflows and production environments as well as building playbooks, standards, and brand guardrails for distributed global teams. * Ability to turn insights into standout concepts that strengthen the brand and deliver measurable results. * Skilled in mentoring teams on AI tools, presenting to executives, and using platforms like Figma and generative design tools. * High proficiency with Figma alongside node-based generative tools like ComfyUI, Weavy, Flora, Krea, or Freepik Spaces would be highly regarded. * A professional portfolio that validates artistic excellence, practical AI applications, and the ability to scale team capabilities. Interested? Apply by XX Contact Zoe Ferguson – Talent Acquisition Team Lead GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where GHD people can thrive, this supports the diverse needs of our workforce while balancing the benefits of remote working with the value of face-to-face collaboration in the office. GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities. All our employees are expected to be able to attend a GHD office three times per week. We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

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Responsibilities

Lead the integration of AI-powered creativity across global marketing channels to improve speed, quality, and consistency. Translate brand strategy into practical AI systems, guardrails, and scalable creative outputs while coaching multidisciplinary teams.