Creative Director, Global Brand

Creative Director, Global Brand

Location: San Diego (Position requires being onsite in San Diego, 5 days a week) - No relocation offered.

Aquent Studios is the creative agency that provides scalability with world-class services to Qualcomm's in-house studio. This collaboration will help shape how one of the world's most innovative technology brands shows up in culture and in the market. You'll help build breakthrough campaigns and bring cutting-edge technology stories to life for audiences around the world.

Creative Director, Global Brand

Aquent Studios - Embedded with Qualcomm

About the Role

Aquent Studios is seeking a Creative Director, Brand to lead a small, high-caliber creative team embedded with Qualcomm. This role owns the visual health and consistency of Qualcomm's foundational corporate brand alongside its portfolio of product brands - Snapdragon, Dragonwing, and Dragonfly. You'll be the steward of design systems, visual identity, typography, and photography direction across a complex, multi-brand architecture, while mentoring and managing a small team of designers.

What You'll Do

* Lead and manage a small team of brand and visual designers, setting direction and reviewing work to a consistently high creative bar

* Own and evolve design systems that scale across Qualcomm's foundational brand and its Snapdragon, Dragonwing, and Dragonfly sub-brands

* Serve as the guardian of visual identity, typography, color, iconography, layout systems, and key visual language

* Direct photography and key visual development, from creative briefs through final asset selection

* Partner closely with marketing, product marketing, and brand stakeholders to ensure creative work supports business and product goals

* Present creative direction, systems, and rationale to senior stakeholders and defend design decisions with clear reasoning

* Ensure brand consistency and appropriate differentiation across a multi-brand portfolio

What You Bring

* 8+ years of brand and creative experience, including experience leading or managing a creative team

* Deep, demonstrable expertise in design systems, building, documenting, and scaling them across multiple brand touchpoints

* Strong command of visual identity fundamentals: typography, grid systems, color theory, and key visual development

* Experience directing photography, whether through in-house shoots or agency/vendor partners

* A portfolio that shows brand systems thinking, not just individual campaign executions

* Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow a small design team

* Comfort operating across a portfolio of related brands with distinct but connected identities

Who You Are

* Experience with technology, semiconductor, or consumer electronics brands

* Background working within or alongside enterprise/B2B brand architectures

* Experience building or maintaining brand guideline systems (e.g., Figma libraries, brand portals)

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