Creative Director Emeryville, California Hybrid; on-site); Remote

Emeryville, California, United States;
Hybrid (2-3 days on-site);
Remote

Profluent is the frontier AI lab for biology. Profluent builds powerful foundation models for all of life's molecules, unlocking solutions that transform medicine, agriculture, and beyond. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Profluent is backed by leading investors including Altimeter Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Insight Partners, Air Street Capital, AIX Ventures, and Convergent Ventures and has raised over $150M to date.

A top company goal for Profluent is establishing ourselves as the frontier AI lab for biology. This role is central to achieving that: making the brand match the ambition of the science and shaping how the field, press, talent, and partners perceive us. What the leading AI labs are to knowledge and coding work, we intend to be for biology.

We're looking for a Creative Director to own Profluent's creative function and define how the company looks, feels, and shows up in the world. You'll own the creative process end to end - from concept through published work and balance scientific accuracy, visual craft, and clarity to make works that delight, inspire, and capture attention. This role works in close partnership with the Head of Comms & Brand and the CEO to make final creative decisions.

This is a player-coach role. Today you'll work with the existing team to make much of the work yourself, including video, design, web, social, events, and over time you'll build and lead a small creative team and manage a creative budget within the Comms & Brand function. On a day to day basis, you'll work closely with the Head of Comms & Brand as well as contractors (e.g. videographers, photographers, illustrators), and our leadership and scientists to turn frontier science into work that resonates with people.

A few rules guide our team:

• Don't be boring. Create things that delight and inspire people
• Avoid jargon. Create content, art, and objects that communicate with people like they're people

• Translate Profluent's frontier science into a brand and public presence that establishes us as the frontier AI lab for biology
• Own the creative process across every brand surface, including driving projects from concept to finished work, balancing tradeoffs, and making final decisions with the Head of Comms & Brand and the CEO
• Own and evolve Profluent's visual identity system including typography, color, imagery, motion, and other visual design standards to cement our brand as a frontier AI lab
• Own and evolve Profluent's visual identity system including typography, color, imagery, motion, and other visual design standards to cement our brand as a frontier AI lab
• Own and evolve Profluent's visual identity system including typography, color, imagery, motion, and other visual design standards to cement our brand as a frontier AI lab
• Own the creative budget within the Comms & Brand function and help build the creative function over time, hiring and leading designers, producers, and contractors as the team grows
• Manage vendors and contractors (videographers, designers, agencies) as extensions of the team
• Art direct and produce imagery including photography and illustrations and video including podcast episodes, videos for model/capability releases, social clips, videos for major announcements, and more
• Design decks, white papers, and launch assets that hold up in front of a technical audience
• Lead Profluent’s website through both cosmetic and structural changes, working with design and dev contractors as well as making edits to the website directly
• Create content for social channels as well as executive comms, shipping quickly while maintaining high quality
• Define and shape our…