Creative Director

About Us!

At Sourcing Unicorns, we recruit globally across the creative and experiential industry, always on the lookout for exceptional talent to bring bold ideas to life. For this opportunity, we’re proud to collaborate with the team at Fivestone Studios to find the unicorn, the one who will truly make a difference. Together, we ensure a smooth and human-centered hiring experience that reflects the studio’s vision.

About Fivestone Studios!

Fivestone Studios is a Nashville-based creative media agency that an international clientele trust as their creative secret weapon. Our MO is taking on giants and make heroes of our clients through an impressive arsenal of strategy, design, digital media production & interactive technology capabilities.

Our primary goal at Fivestone Studios is to make a space for creative warriors to grow, thrive and take on their own giants. We use our Five Stones as our lens for success and our foundation for a healthy culture: honor, bravery, vision, generosity and excellence. If you have a passion for teamwork, are willing to leave your ego at the door, and have a strong drive for creative excellence, we would love to talk.

Your Mission

We are looking for an experienced Creative Director to lead the creative vision and experience design of immersive, interactive, and technology-driven projects, from initial concept through to final delivery.

This role calls for a senior creative leader with a strong foundation in visual design and art direction, combined with expertise in experience strategy, UX, storytelling, content production, and creative technology.

You will shape compelling user and audience experiences, establish distinctive creative directions, and ensure creative consistency across multidisciplinary productions.

We are particularly interested in someone who is hands-on in visual development, capable of personally creating initial concepts, treatments, and style frames, while directing sophisticated content production and maintaining creative oversight throughout the entire project lifecycle.

You will collaborate closely with creative leadership, producers, designers, content strategists, creative technologists, developers, and other multidisciplinary teams to align creative vision with experience design, technical feasibility, and production requirements. You will also work with clients and stakeholders to translate their objectives and feedback into cohesive, high-quality experiences.

PS.: Candidates must be able to work and collaborate during US business hours (US time zones), regardless of their location.

Key Responsibilities

1. Experience Strategy & Design

• Define the overall experience vision, creative premise and guiding principles.

• Translate client objectives and audience needs into compelling, intuitive and engaging experiences.

• Shape user journeys, interaction models and experience principles, considering usability, accessibility and context.

• Identify opportunities to make experiences distinctive, meaningful and memorable.

2. Creative & Art Direction

• Lead the creative direction across projects, defining the visual language, tone and overall approach.

• Develop and present concepts, mood boards, visual references and creative treatments.

• Direct visual design, motion, animation, content and storytelling to ensure a cohesive creative vision.

• Maintain creative consistency and quality across all outputs and disciplines.

3. Creative Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and guide multidisciplinary creative teams, providing clear direction, feedback and creative decisions.

• Work closely with UX/UI Designers, Content Strategists, Creative Technologists, Developers, Animators, 3D Artists, Sound Designers and Producers.

• Encourage collaboration, experimentation and creative problem-solving.

• Ensure all disciplines remain aligned with the agreed creative vision and quality expectations.

4. Technology & Production Collaboration

• Work closely with Creative Technology and Production teams to ensure concepts are technically and operationally achievable.

• Understand relevant technologies, platforms and physical environments, recognising their opportunities and limitations.

• Balance creative ambition with technical feasibility, scope, budget and schedule.

• Identify potential constraints early and develop creative solutions without compromising the core experience.

5. Creative Oversight & Delivery

• Maintain creative oversight from concept development through to final delivery.

• Review designs, prototypes and integrated experiences, providing clear and constructive feedback.

• Make timely creative decisions and guide adaptations throughout development and production.

• Identify and resolve creative and experience-related issues, ensuring the final work maintains the quality, coherence and intent of the approved vision.

Your Journey

Must Have

• Experience: developing immersive and interactive experiences across physical and digital environments.

• Senior Creative Direction Experience: Extensive experience leading the creative vision and execution of multidisciplinary projects from concept through final delivery.

• Visual Design & Art Direction: Strong artistic foundation with the ability to independently establish visual direction and create initial concepts, treatments and style frames.

• Experience Design: Proven expertise in shaping engaging user and audience experiences, including experience strategy, UX and interaction design.

• Content Production: Demonstrated experience directing sophisticated and technically complex content production across animation, game engines, film, UI and interactive experiences.

• End-to-End Creative Ownership: Ability to maintain creative leadership and involvement throughout development and production, ensuring the final experience reflects the approved creative vision.

• Multidisciplinary Leadership: Experience guiding creative teams across visual design, motion, animation, content, UX/UI, 3D and creative technology.

• Creative Technology Understanding: Strong understanding of technology-driven experiences, including technical possibilities, limitations and integration considerations.

• Production Awareness: Ability to balance creative ambition with technical feasibility, production constraints, budgets and schedules.

• Creative Communication: Ability to present concepts, communicate artistic direction, provide constructive feedback and collaborate effectively with clients and multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to Have

• Background in brand experiences involving immersive, interactive or technology-driven creative work.

• Experience directing creative work across a broad range of content formats and production disciplines.

Engagement Opportunity

The collaboration will begin on a freelance basis, with the intention of transitioning into a full-time role if there is a strong mutual fit. This is a remote position.

This opportunity is part of Fivestone Studios' long-term creative needs.

Thank you for applying. We’re committed to an inclusive process and we welcome talent from all walks of life. We aim to review every application. Roles in experiential can be ultra-specialized; if it’s not a fit for this one, we may still flag your profile for future opportunities. Thanks for helping grow the Sourcing Unicorns talent ecosystem.