About the role

This remote creative director job puts you in charge of the creative standard at Maison Cealus, a private luxury marketing house based in Poland. We admit a short list of brands by application. We call them houses, and we work from inside each business across four lines: identity, film, strategy and residence. Maison Cealus closed its seed round in June 2026.

You set the idea for each house and hold it everywhere, from the name and the launch film to an ordinary Tuesday post. Most creative director jobs ask you to guard one brand. Here you keep several, each in its own register. London Daily News listed Cealus among the Top 5 creative direction companies of 2026. The work also has to perform: the King's Fury campaign reached 1B+ views in under 60 days.

What you will do

Set the idea for each house: the one sentence that every name, film, caption and ad has to serve.
Direct art directors, writers and editors from first concept to final cut, with notes they can act on the same day.
Present work to founders in plain words, defend the ideas that are right and drop the ones that are not.
Keep each identity whole across naming, voice and copy, the identity system and art direction.
Shape launch films, campaigns and daily short form, and plan every shoot for the cut-downs and variations that testing needs.
Work with strategy on positioning and the media plan, so the idea and the spend point at the same people.
Read the weekly numbers from the daily posting in residence and turn what wins into the next brief, retiring what has run its course.
Sign off every piece before it goes out, and protect the luxury register: restraint, consistency and craft you can see.

What you bring

8+ years in agency or in-house creative, including 3+ years leading creative teams.
A portfolio of brand and film work, with identity systems in use and films, campaigns or short form you directed.
Taste you can explain. You can say plainly why a frame, a line or a cut works, and why another does not.
Fluency in short form. You know why the first second of a reel holds attention and how one idea becomes ten variations worth testing.
Comfort with numbers. You read weekly results and change course when they say so, even on your own ideas.
Working command of Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, enough to give exact notes on a layout or a cut.
Proof you can lead at a distance. This is a remote creative director job, so your reviews, notes and decisions have to be clear in writing.
Judgment and discretion. You make the call when a founder needs it, and keep what you see inside a business to yourself.

Nice to have

Time as a luxury brand creative director, or work in fashion, beauty, hospitality or other categories where restraint is the point.
A craft you still practice yourself, such as copywriting, design, photography or editing.
Experience building founder-led content in a format the founder can keep up.
Experience with story sequences or paid social creative judged on revenue, not only on views.

Pay and how we work

We publish the creative director salary range up front, so you can decide before you apply. You are paid in US dollars. Each week we review what went out, what it did and what gets made next.

Base salary: $160,000–$210,000 USD a year.
Full-time, remote within the United States.
The house is based in Europe, so some calls fall early in the US day.
The range is a good-faith range for the role, and the offer depends on experience.

How to apply

Apply with the form on this page. Send links to your portfolio, reel or case studies, with a line on what you did on each, and a few lines on why you want this role. We read every application and reply if there is a fit. The role is open until January 31, 2027.

Before you apply, look through the work we have made for our houses and read the luxury marketing principles we work by. If they describe the standard you already keep, we would like to see your work.

Equal opportunity

Maison Cealus is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any stage, ask through the form on this page.

Creative Director