Page 1 of 4

Creative Director

🗺️ Full-Remote

💪 Join Butter as one of the early leaders shaping how creative software looks, feels, and shows up in the world. 🔥 Butter already powers thousands of businesses, and you’ll play a key role in shaping our next phase of growth.

About Us

Hi, we’re Butter 👋 the Lego set for modern video and motion graphics.

We started with a simple question: Why does making videos still feel so painful? Most tools are either too complex or too limiting. And while AI makes some things faster, it also takes something away — control, originality, humanity.

Butter takes a different approach. It makes video creation fast, playful, and modular, like building with Legos. You can edit, remix, and evolve your work endlessly instead of being stuck with rigid templates or one-off AI outputs.

Today, Butter powers video creation for thousands of brands including Crocs, Netflix, and Pinterest, and artists like Blackpink and Future.

We’re a small team of builders, creatives, and engineers obsessed with craft and focused on shaping the next generation of tools to unlock more human creativity.

Why Work Here

💪 Profitable and Freshly Funded

The most enduring products—Canva, Figma, Notion—took years to get right. We’ve taken the same path: stayed lean, grew through a passionate community, and tackled the hard technical problems others skipped.

Now we’ve raised $8M+ from top-tier investors. You’ll join as an early creative leader, with real ownership and influence across product and brand.

❤️ Customer Love

Butter powers over 30,000+ brands, creators, and agencies and we've grown purely through word of mouth. People don’t just try Butter – they use it daily and tell people about it. You'll be joining as we enter our next stage of growth.

💨 A Team That Ships

We care deeply about the customer experience and release weekly. We bring decades of experience building product at Figma, Headspace, Meta, and Squarespace. Now we’re focused on one thing: redefining what creative software can be.

🙌 World-Class Mentors

We’re backed by founders and leaders from OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Airtable, and The Browser Company. They’ve built the products we admire most and now they’re helping us build ours.

About the Role

As our , you’ll set the bar for Butter’s visuals, motion, and storytelling.

This role spans product, marketing, and brand. You’ll ensure everything we ship — from onboarding to ads to templates to component previews — feels cohesive and intentional.

Your job is to make Butter unmistakable.

You’ll set creative direction, guide designers and motion artists, and make sure our work reflects taste, not trends.

Domains You'll Own

• Visual identity evolution
• Motion language and standards
• Template and component quality bar
• Creative direction for ads and launches
• Cohesion across product and marketing

Overall You'll

• Define and evolve Butter’s creative point of view.
• Raise the quality bar across templates, social, and in-product visuals.
• Direct campaigns and product storytelling.
• Work closely with Product to ensure in-product design aligns with brand.
• Establish review standards and critique culture.
• Decide what does not ship.

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years in creative direction, brand, or product design leadership
• Strong portfolio across motion, brand design, and digital product
• Clear point of view and taste
• Experience working closely with product teams
• Comfortable giving direct feedback and setting standards

Want to Apply?

Butter is a well-funded, ambitious team rethinking what creative tools can be. We’re remote-first with hubs in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and Toronto. If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to hear from you.