VIA is 100% employee-owned, based in Portland, Maine, and built around a set of principles that guide the work every day. This role offers a four-day work week (Monday through Thursday in-office) and the chance to lead creative that aims for lasting impact, not short-lived decoration.
What you’ll do
As Creative Director, Art, you’ll lead creative across all partners, setting direction and keeping standards high. You’ll be responsible for the creative work end-to-end, partnering across teams and leading the people doing the making.
- Lead creative across all partners
- Lead teams
- Love teams
- Get in fights
What you’ll bring
You have 8+ years of experience, including significant time at the senior creative level. Your portfolio shows a highly conceptual point of view with breadth, alongside a reverence for craft. You also have a track record of leading and developing teams, not only directing work, and you can execute ideas across any and every medium.
- 8+ years with significant time at the senior creative level
- Conceptual portfolio with breadth, a point of view, and reverence for craft
- Experience leading and developing creative teams (growing teams, not just managing them)
- Comfort executing your ideas in any and every medium
- Four-day work week with in-office days Monday through Thursday in Portland, Maine
Why VIA
VIA offers benefits designed for meaningful ownership and a sustainable pace. You get a four-day work week, strong benefits for a company of its size, and a real stake in the outcome.
- Four-day work week
- Some of the best benefits of any company our size in America
- 100% employee-owned, with real stake in what VIA becomes
About the role and the work
VIA’s team builds work that changes the world. You’ll bring an art background and a mindset that treats precision as an act of love, spotting the kernel of an idea and determining whether it’s worth chasing. You’ll translate that clarity to others, helping teammates see what you see and carry it forward with confidence.
VIA believes in ideas with consequences. When you join, you won’t just be an employee. You’ll be an owner.
About VIA
VIA means “The Way” in Latin. The agency has been finding the way for 33 years for clients, for itself, and most importantly for the humans receiving the work. Started with $4,000 and principles written in a hotel bar in fifteen minutes, VIA still follows the same lighthouse guidance:
- Be Curious
- Honor the Process
- Think Like the Audience
- Create Respect
- Be on Time
- Be on Budget
- Figure It Out
- Find the Magic
- Do Work That Makes You Proud
- Believe
VIA is based in Portland, Maine, where the team works in a 200-year-old library, with great schools, an ocean, and a food scene that’s known for being exceptionally strong.
Your application will always be received and reviewed by real people, not a computer. No AI filters or algorithms here.
