Senior Lead, Art Direction - Flex Creative Team

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Marketing & Communications Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. ABOUT THIS ROLE We are seeking a Senior Lead, Art Direction (Level 8) to act as a primary visual strategist and creative catalyst for the Mexico City node. In this role, you will not be focusing on everyday pixel execution; you are a visionary design leader r esponsible for establishing the macro visual direction, narrative architecture, and conceptual frameworks that define how the Salesforce brand communicates globally. Reporting directly to the Creative Director, you will co-lead the visual output of the MXC cell, ensuring every campaign and brand experience meets a world-class standard. You will champion the intersection of traditional human craft and modern agentic workflows, guiding the team to conceptualize bold, systems-driven creative solutions that are engineered from day one for global export. WHAT YOU WILL DO 1. Visual Stewardship & Conceptualization : Partner with Creative Director to originate high-level visual concepts, creative hooks, and brand narratives for global campaigns and monumental experiences like Dreamforce. 2. Art Direction & Brand Accuracy : Govern the overarching aesthetic direction for all design and motion outputs, ensuring 100% adherence to Brand Central standards while pushing the boundaries of creative innovation. 3. Agentic Creative Leadership : Lead the team in adopting cutting-edge AI technologies as conceptual partners, identifying how generative toolkits can accelerate visual brainstorming, moodboarding, and layout design by 30% without sacrificing soul or craft. 4. Executive Stakeholder Engagement : Present, pitch, and defend complex creative strategies and visual directions to senior and executive-level audiences with clarity, persuasion, and executive-level fluency. 5. Cross-Functional System Integration : Collaborate closely with the Senior Manager of Motion Design and product teams to ensure that static, spatial, and kinetic art directions blend into one seamless, unified brand experience. WHAT EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE 1. 10+ Years of Elite Design Leadership : Extensive experience steering art direction, brand design, and multi-platform creative strategy inside a world-class creative agency, client-side group, or leading tech company. 2. Systems-First Creative Portfolio : A world-class portfolio of work showcasing a sophisticated understanding of typography, color systems, photography, and comprehensive brand identity systems applied at enterprise scale. 3. AI-Forward Conceptual Mastery : Proven ability or heavy experimentation in leveraging generative AI stacks to scale creative ideation, advanced texturing, and rapid style prototyping. 4. Cross-Functional Alignment : Demonstrated success navigating global, matrixed organizations and leading cross-functional creative cells under tight deadlines. 5. Linguistic & Narrative Fluency : Exceptional communication skills in English, with a proven track record of writing detailed creative briefs, leading art direction feedback loops, and presenting to C-level stakeholders. HOW SUCCESS IS MEASURED Performance will be highly KPI-driven, aligned directly with the cell's strategic objectives: 1. Executive Alignment Rate (Target: 70