Creative Director

Intro

M0 is the shared infrastructure where businesses launch their own branded stablecoins and financial institutions power them. Built on a common standard, every stablecoin on M0 is interoperable and liquid from day one - giving businesses programmable control over how money moves in their ecosystems, and giving financial institutions the most advanced issuance stack in the industry.

M0 is seeking a Creative Director who will play a fundamental role in shaping the future of our organization. As Creative Director, you will report directly to the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and own the end-to-end creative direction for the M0 brand, leading how our story, identity, and message come to life across every surface where M0 shows up in the world. You will set the creative strategy, lead design projects, and partner closely with internal marketing, sales and product functions, as well as with external creative agencies, to translate a complex category-defining infrastructure product into clear, distinctive, and emotionally resonant work. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading brand and creative at the intersection of fintech, crypto, or other deeply technical, regulated industries. They are comfortable operating as an executive partner who can shape strategy at the leadership table, but they won’t shy from rolling their sleeves and be a hands-on maker.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate complex infrastructure into compelling stories. Partner with leadership, product, marketing and sales to turn stablecoin and financial-infrastructure concepts into narratives, campaigns, and assets that resonate with builders, financial institutions, and the broader market - driving awareness and trust.
• Define and steward the M0 brand. Own the creative vision, voice, and visual system for the business. Direct its expression across web, social, product marketing, video, events, sales materials, and investor communications in partnership with marketing, product marketing and external agencies. Evolve the brand as M0 grows from category creator to category leader.
• Build and lead a creative function. Establish the rituals, briefs, and review standards part of a creative function to consistently produce work at the highest level of craft and clarity. Oversee the execution of creative initiatives by managing the existing design team and the use of external creative studios or agencies when necessary. 

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive experience in creative leadership roles, with experience leading and managing creative teams (Creative Director, Head of Brand, or equivalent).
• A portfolio of category-defining brand and narrative work, ideally including in-house work at a high-growth technology, fintech, crypto, or financial services company, and/or senior leadership at a top-tier brand or advertising agency. Bonus points for a copywriting background.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to multiple sophisticated audiences. Ideally some demonstrable fluency in fintech, payments, blockchain, stablecoins, or other regulated financial categories.
• Hands-on mastery across the full creative stack: brand identity, art direction, copywriting, design systems, motion, web, and integrated campaigns; comfort directing external partners (agencies, photographers, illustrators, production studios) when needed.
• Track record of partnering with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders (marketing, product, sales, legal/compliance) to ship work that is both on-brand and on-message within regulated frameworks.

Skills & Attributes:

• A storyteller at the core. You can take a dense, technical concept and find the simple, human idea inside it - then express that idea with precision across formats and audiences.
• Exceptional taste and craft. You have a clear, opinionated point of view on what great looks like, and you raise the bar everywhere you go.
• Strategic and commercial mindset. You think like an operator: you connect creative decisions to business outcomes and can articulate the why behind the work to executives, investors, and the team.
• Builder’s instinct. You thrive in ambiguity, are comfortable defining processes and standards from scratch, and operate with the urgency and ownership of an early-stage environment.
• Generous, high-EQ leader. You attract great talent, give clear and direct feedback, and create the conditions for a team to do the best work of their careers.

Compensation:

• Competitive compensation (base salary with equity/ token grant) commensurate with experience.

Benefits:

• Global team and flexibility: Join a truly global team with the flexibility to work remotely or from our hub in NYC.
• Health and wellness: Enjoy comprehensive healthcare insurance coverage as well as a wellbeing allowance and gym membership to support your physical and mental health.
• Customizable IT setup: Tailor your workspace with access to top-notch IT equipment.
• Professional development: Benefit from an annual development budget to enhance your skills and grow professionally, including opportunities to participate in conferences and on-site company events worldwide.