Creative Director

Arts Bonita is hiring a Hands-On Creative Director to elevate and strengthen its brand, spotlight organizational growth, and bring programs to life through creative campaigns, brand standards, and marketing and visual content. This full-time, on-site role supports work across Arts Bonita’s two campuses in Bonita Springs, FL, with opportunities to advance your impact through ongoing creative direction, production, and storytelling.

Compensation: USD 65,000 - 75,000 per year.

What you’ll do

• Develop original creative campaigns for each program, aligning creative direction with audience and goals in close collaboration with the Marketing Director and program leaders.
• Strengthen and maintain Arts Bonita’s visual identity by ensuring consistent brand standards across advertising, email, social media, websites, printed materials, and campus signage.
• Design and produce a wide range of marketing and visual content, including advertisements, brochures, season guides, class catalogs, performance programs, invitations, signage, presentations, and digital assets.
• Work with the graphic designer to divide assignments, coordinate workloads, and maintain consistent quality across creative deliverables.
• Create fundraising and sponsorship materials for Off The Walls, the Arts Bonita Scholarship Classic Golf Event, donor appeals, and the capital campaign and campus expansion.
• Direct photography, video, and visual storytelling featuring artists, performers, students, faculty, patrons, and donors, including the impact of scholarships and outreach.
• Manage creative projects end-to-end, from concept through approval, production, and delivery, coordinating deadlines with ticket launches, class registrations, advertising schedules, and events.
• Coordinate assigned creative staff, freelancers, photographers, videographers, printers, and other vendors; manage assigned production budgets.
• Prepare production-ready files, oversee printing and delivery, and ensure accuracy, proofreading, accessibility, and appropriate sponsor recognition.
• Maintain organized creative assets and use campaign results and audience feedback to improve future work.

What you bring

• At least 5 years of progressive experience in graphic design, art direction, or creative services, including experience leading projects or creative collaborators.
• A strong portfolio showing original concepts and excellent execution across print and digital formats.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Strong knowledge of typography, layout, brand identity, digital design, and print production.
• Experience directing photography and video, including outside production partners.
• Strong communication, organization, and project management skills to manage competing priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate closely with the Marketing Director, program leaders, and creative colleagues, and respond constructively to feedback.
• A degree in graphic design, visual communications, fine arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in arts, culture, live entertainment, education, or nonprofit organizations is preferred.

On-site schedule

This full-time position is on-site across Arts Bonita’s two campuses in Bonita Springs, Florida. Occasional evening and weekend availability is required for performances, festivals, special events, and content production.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Performance-based bonus
• Employee discounts
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Opportunity for advancement

Technologies

• Adobe Creative Cloud
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop