Creative Director
Type: Freelance / Project-Based Contract
Rate: Commensurate with experience
Location: Remote with on-site shoot days as needed
Reports to: Fractional CMO
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit the following:
- Your portfolio — a selection of campaigns or projects you've led, with context on your role and the brief you were working from
- A brief overview of your background and the types of brands you've worked with
- Your project rate range
- A creative submission — required. This can take any form: a short presentation, a mood board with a Loom walkthrough, a concept deck, or anything else that shows us how you think. There's no prescribed format. Show us what you'd bring to Be Balanced and how you'd start to make it look and feel like nothing else in the functional health space.
About the Brand
Be Balanced by Micaela is a functional health and wellness brand built on real science, clinical expertise, and a founder with serious credibility in the space. We help people take control of their health through evidence-based protocols, lab testing, and a growing membership community. The brand has strong bones — a distinctive point of view, a highly engaged audience, and a founder people trust. What we're building toward now is a creative identity that matches that substance. Right now, the brand looks and feels similar to a lot of others in the wellness space. We want to change that. The goal is to make Be Balanced a creative leader in functional health — immediately recognizable, visually distinct, and unlike anything else in the category. That's the mandate for this role.
We're looking for a Creative Director to lead marketing campaign development on a project basis — typically quarterly. This is a senior, concept-led role. It starts with the idea.
Before a single photo is taken or a piece of content is made, you're the person in the room asking: what are we actually trying to say, and what's the most compelling, unexpected way to say it? You develop the campaign concept — the creative idea, the story, the feeling — and then figure out how it comes to life across every channel. Sometimes that's a photo shoot. Sometimes it's a video series. Sometimes it's a campaign that plays out entirely on social. The format follows the idea, not the other way around.
You'll work closely with the Fractional CMO to translate brand and growth goals into creative direction, and you'll provide the creative framework that the Social Media Manager, Copywriter, and any production partners execute against. Your job is to make sure that everything — across every channel and format — feels cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably Be Balanced.
The biggest creative challenge here is differentiation. There are a lot of health brands doing similar things. We want to be the one that looks, feels, and communicates completely differently — in a way that's authentic to the brand, not just trendy. If that kind of creative problem genuinely excites you, this role is for you.
THE ROLE
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Developing the overarching creative concept for each campaign — the idea, the story, the emotional direction, and the reason it will cut through
- Translating campaign goals into a complete creative brief: concept, mood, messaging pillars, visual direction, tonal direction, and how it shows up across channels
- Determining how each campaign comes to life — whether that's through a video series, a photo shoot, a social campaign, a content series, or a combination — and building the plan to execute it
- Creating mood boards and visual references that clearly communicate the creative vision to the team and any production partners
- Leading direction on photo and video production when shoots are part of the campaign — shot lists, styling references, talent direction, and on-set or remote creative oversight
- Providing the creative framework the Social Media Manager, Copywriter, and other team members execute against — clear enough to guide without micromanaging
- Reviewing channel output across social, email, and other assets to ensure everything stays true to the campaign concept and holds the standard
- Bringing ongoing creative inspiration — trend references, competitive benchmarks, and fresh thinking — to keep the brand moving forward between campaigns
- Partnering with the Fractional CMO to build a long-term creative identity for Be Balanced that sets it apart in the functional health space
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- An experienced Creative Director with a portfolio of marketing campaigns that demonstrate strong concept thinking — the idea comes first, execution follows
- Someone who can develop a campaign from a blank page — not just the look and feel, but the story, the touchpoints, and how it shows up across email, social, video, and beyond
- A strategic creative — you understand what a campaign needs to achieve commercially, and you develop ideas that are both compelling and purposeful
- Strong visual instincts — you know the difference between looking polished and looking distinctive, and you know how to close that gap
- Experience with photo and video production — comfortable leading creative on set when shoots are part of the campaign
- A strong collaborator who can work closely with a Fractional CMO, Social Media Manager, and Copywriter to bring a vision to life across a team
- Comfortable in a project-based, freelance engagement — able to come in, lead with clarity, and deliver
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with functional health, wellness, supplement, or CPG brands — familiarity with the space is a genuine advantage
- An existing network of photographers, videographers, stylists, or production talent
- Experience developing or evolving brand identities — not just executing within them, but pushing them forward
ENGAGEMENT MODEL
This is a project-based freelance role, engaged on a quarterly basis. The scope of each engagement will be agreed in advance and will typically cover campaign concepting, creative brief development, production direction, and creative oversight through to final delivery across channels. Rate is commensurate with experience and agreed per project.
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