Creative Director - Expression Job Seattle area,Washington USA,Creative Arts/Media

About the Role

Uber Design is dedicated to creating experiences that are not only functional and intuitive, but distinctive, expressive, and memorable. We design for people of all backgrounds and abilities across the globe, shaping experiences that move between the digital and physical world every day.

Uber is seeking a
Creative Director to lead our Product Expression team
, responsible for defining how Uber comes to life through
illustration, motion, design language, visual storytelling, and moments of delight across our products
.

This is a senior creative leadership role for someone who can establish a compelling creative vision and also get close to the work. You’ll lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team while staying close to the work—developing and prototyping new creative concepts and systems, working directly alongside designers to explore and refine ideas, and providing a high bar for craft. You’ll lead through both direction and making, helping push the work from good to exceptional.

You’ll work across Design Systems, Product Design, Brand, Marketing, Engineering, and Product to create an expressive language that is distinctly Uber while building the systems that allow it to scale across a global product ecosystem.

This role requires exceptional taste, creative judgment, strong visual and motion craft, systems thinking, and the ability to influence within a complex matrix organization. You should be equally comfortable setting a multi-year creative direction, presenting to senior leadership, leading a critique, and opening the tools to explore an idea yourself.

What You Will Do

Define Uber’s product expression. Establish and evolve a clear creative vision for how illustration, motion, visual storytelling, and moments of delight show up across Uber’s products.

Set an exceptional bar for craft. Develop a strong point of view on what great looks like and help teams consistently reach that bar without sacrificing speed or scalability.

Be a hands-on creative leader. This is not a role that directs exclusively from the sidelines. Explore concepts, prototype ideas, create visual and motion direction, and work alongside designers when the work benefits from your direct involvement.

Lead and grow the Expression team. Inspire, coach, and develop designers across illustration, motion, and visual design while building a culture of experimentation, critique, and exceptional craft.

Create systems, not just moments. Turn strong creative ideas into reusable principles, patterns, tools, and systems that can scale across products, teams, markets, and use cases.

Partner deeply with Product Design and Design Systems. Work closely with product and systems teams to make expression an intentional part of the experience rather than a decorative layer added at the end.

Navigate and influence a matrix organization. Build strong relationships across Product, Brand, Marketing, Engineering, and Design. Create alignment across teams with different priorities while maintaining a coherent creative vision.

Connect Brand and Product. Help translate the Uber brand into meaningful product experiences while recognizing that product expression has its own needs, constraints, and opportunities.

Lead through influence. Build excitement around a creative direction, communicate the rationale behind it, and bring senior leaders and cross-functional teams along without relying on organizational authority.

Champion experimentation. Encourage the team to explore broadly, prototype quickly, and pursue unexpected ideas before converging on solutions that can scale.

Direct and participate in creative reviews. Lead critiques, working sessions, and creative explorations that make the work stronger while helping teams understand the…