Lead Creative (Design & Video)

Reliable execution and collaboration

• Turn an imperfect brief into clarity quickly: confirm the audience, objective, exact deliverables, owner, deadline, dependencies, approver and definition of done.
• Prioritise by business impact and learning value
• Commit to delivery dates, manage your own work visibly and raise risks early—with a proposed solution and impact on timing.
• Deliver launch-ready, organised and editable files, with correct formats, naming, product UI, usage rights and handover notes.
• Manage specialist freelancers when extra capacity or craft is needed.

What success looks like in the first 90 days

• You understand Krotos’s audiences, products, current performance and brand tensions, and can explain the biggest creative opportunities clearly.
• The existing brand direction has become an operational creative system the team can use.
• At least eight reusable templates or reference packs cover the highest-volume needs across paid, social, YouTube, product video and web.
• At least two other team members can create approved repeatable assets without waiting for you, and routine reviews usually close within two rounds.
• You have shipped at least four clearly defined creative tests across priority channels, documented the baseline, result and learning, and identified at least one promising direction to scale.
• Agreed work is delivered reliably; risks are normally raised at least 48 hours before a deadline.
• Your work is visibly improving the inputs it can influence—such as CTR, qualified visits, landing-page conversion, watch time, engagement quality or customer trust.

What we are looking for

Essential

• A strong portfolio showing excellent visual craft across brand, performance creative, motion/video and web—not only one discipline.
• Evidence that your work influenced a commercial or behavioural result. You can explain the problem, baseline, choices, variants, result and learning.
• The ability to personally take work from concept to launch.
• Strong command of Figma and professional creative tools for image, motion and video production.
• Practical fluency with generative AI and modern prototyping workflows.
• A working understanding of growth metrics such as CTR, conversion rate, qualified traffic, watch time and engagement—and the judgement not to optimise a brand into short-term noise.
• Clear written and verbal communication, excellent organisation-remote-working habits.
• Strong attention to product accuracy, responsive design, accessibility, file structure, licensing and final QA.
• Low ego, high ownership.

Advantages

• Experience in a startup, SaaS, subscription or direct-to-consumer environment.
• Experience designing for creator tools, media and entertainment, film/video workflows, audio software or another technical product.
• Hands-on experience with Webflow, Framer, Lovable or similar tools; basic HTML/CSS understanding is helpful.
• Experience with CRO, landing-page testing, paid social creative, influencer content or YouTube packaging.
• Experience directing freelancers or building a creative production system for non-designers.
• An interest in filmmaking, sound design, games or creative technology.

How we work

• Outcomes before activity. We define what should change and how we will know.
• One deliverable, one owner. Collaboration is encouraged; ownership stays clear.
• Small tests before large commitments. We validate important assumptions, then scale what works.
• Clear definition of done. A deliverable is not finished until it is accurate, organised, reviewed, launch-ready and handed over.
• AI increases leverage; people remain responsible for judgement, claims, rights and final quality.
• Direct, specific feedback. We discuss the audience, objective and evidence—not vague personal taste.

This role will suit you if…

• You are equally comfortable setting a creative direction and opening the file to make the work yourself.
• You can move quickly without becoming careless.
• You enjoy turning repeatable work into systems.
• You are curious about performance and customers, but you still defend originality, craft and long-term brand trust.

It is probably not the right role if…

• You want to focus only on brand identity, only on product UI or only on managing other creatives.
• You see measurement as someone else’s responsibility or believe creative quality cannot be connected to customer behaviour.
• You need a fully settled brief and fixed priorities before you can make progress.
• You prefer one polished concept over producing, testing and learning from thoughtful variants.

What we offer

• The chance to shape the visual expression of genuinely innovative technology used by creators around the world.
• Meaningful ownership, direct access to decision-makers and the ability to see the commercial effect of your work.
• A remote, collaborative team.
• Room to experiment with modern creative and prototyping tools, while helping define responsible standards for how we use them.
• Flexible working, and regular opportunities to connect with the team in person.

How to apply

Please send to admin@krotosaudio.com :

• Your CV and portfolio.
• Two or three relevant projects, including at least one where you can explain the business goal, your personal contribution, what shipped and what happened.
• A short note on what you would be able to create personally in your first month at Krotos.

Shortlisted candidates will meet members of the team and complete a paid, time-boxed practical project. The task reflects the real role and assesses creative quality, commercial thinking, speed, reliability, response to feedback and handover quality.

Initial Freelance Arrangements

• The initial contract scope, anticipated time commitment, project duration, rates, and availability requirements will be agreed before the engagement begins.
• The contractor will be expected to attend relevant meetings, provide regular progress updates, and maintain reasonable overlap with the Krotos team’s working hours.
• All work must be documented and delivered through Krotos-approved systems.

Equal opportunity

Krotos values different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the application and interview process. Note: All offers are subject to eligibility to work in your base country (Remote Europe with preference: UK or Greece) and satisfactory references.