Director, Brand & Creative

Strength in Trust

 OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. 

The Challenge

OneTrust is entering its next chapter as the market leader in AI-ready governance. With a newly launched brand identity and an expanding platform story, we’re looking for a Director, Brand & Creative to define and lead how our brand shows up in the market.

This is a distinctive leadership role that sits at the intersection of brand strategy, creative excellence, and operational scale. It builds on a strong in-house creative foundation while expanding the mandate to lead brand activation, creative systems, and the overall creative point of view for OneTrust.

The Director, Brand & Creative will ensure our brand is not only consistently applied, but clearly and confidently expressed across campaigns, digital experiences, content, events, customer marketing, and key corporate moments. Reporting directly to the VP of Corporate Marketing, this leader will serve as the steward of the OneTrust brand and the leader of our in-house creative function.

We are seeking a creative leader with a strong business mindset and a clear understanding of brand marketing—someone who knows that the best creative work does more than look good. It drives clarity. It shapes perception. It supports conversion. It helps the business grow.

Your Mission

Brand Leadership

• Lead the activation and continued evolution of OneTrust’s brand identity across global marketing programs and strategic initiatives.
• Translate brand strategy, positioning, and narrative into clear, compelling brand expression across channels and touchpoints.
• Establish and manage a brand governance model that drives consistency while enabling teams to move quickly and effectively.
• Operationalize the brand through scalable systems, templates, standards, and guidance that support quality at scale.
• Champion and lead the implementation of Canva as a creative enablement platform for marketing, with clear guardrails, workflows, and adoption best practices.
• Partner closely with Content, Demand Generation, Events, Customer Marketing, PR, Product Marketing, and other cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive brand expression across the business.
• Shape the brand experience for flagship company and customer moments, including major events and executive-level initiatives.

Creative Leadership

• Establish a strong creative point of view that shapes work upstream—before briefs, concepts, and asset development begin.
• Lead the development of integrated campaign and brand asset suites that can be leveraged across marketing motions and channels.
• Translate strategy into creative work that is distinctive, effective, and aligned to business goals.
• Set a high bar for creative quality, craft, storytelling, and consistency across design, video, campaigns, events, and supporting assets.
• Engage stakeholders early in the creative process to provide strategic input, alignment, and clear creative direction.
• Serve as a trusted creative partner to marketers and leaders across the organization.
• Manage agency and freelance partners as needed, providing strong briefs, clear feedback, and rigorous quality control.

Team & Operational Leadership

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary in-house team, including brand, design, and video talent.
• Ensure the team has the right skill mix, operating model, and processes to support the needs of a growing B2B SaaS company.
• Build effective ways of working that improve prioritization, collaboration, and speed without sacrificing quality.
• Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

You Are/Have

• 10+ years of experience in brand and creative leadership roles.
• A background that includes agency experience and/or recent in-house leadership at a B2B SaaS, enterprise technology, or similarly complex business.
• Proven experience building, scaling, and operationalizing brand and creative systems.
• Strong business acumen and fluency in brand marketing, with a clear understanding of how creative work contributes to growth, market perception, and conversion.
• Strong creative judgment and the ability to translate strategy into work that is both compelling and effective.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams and partnering across a broad set of marketing functions.
• Comfort operating at both the strategic and executional levels in a fast-moving environment.
• Demonstrated ability to balance creative ambition with pragmatism, structure, and operational discipline.
• A collaborative leadership style and the confidence to navigate the intersection of brand, creativity, and business impact.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.

Salary Range

$168,750—$253,125 USD

Where we Work

We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.

Benefits

As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. 

Our Commitment to You

 When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career. OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.