Creative Director

EXOS is a leader in the field of human performance, a category it created more than 20 years ago. Today, EXOS employs more than 4,500 people in over 600 locations worldwide. With award-winning facilities, sports medicine clinics, technology, and services, EXOS connects people to the solutions they need and provides comprehensive game plans, regardless of skill and sport, based on time-tested fundamentals and research in order to help people take control of their health and performance. At EXOS, we have a passion for performance through continuous self improvement. This persona is inspired by helping others in all of our EXOS Communities improve their personal performance. Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion is more than a commitment at EXOS - it’s the foundation of every great performance team. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different. EXOS is trusted by hundreds of clients including leaders in business, health care, community organizations, and world champions in sports.

We're seeking a hands on Creative Director. Someone with proven success creating best-in-class and business building creative content personally AND has led/inspired a team in doing the same to effectively lead the creative output for the EXOS Brand.

This leader will have 15+ years in visual design and demonstrated expertise in digital experiences, and have strong experience collaborating with writing partners in the development and production of world class creative executions. As Creative Director, you will lead the creative execution across our largest projects, develop and build our in-house creative team and provide creative direction to all external agency partnerships.

This position will be remote (home) based, will report to the Chief Marketing Officer and he/she will have a direct team along with access to freelance and shared service subject matter expertise to successfully deliver business results.

• Create and maintain an inspiring vision for EXOS creative, and, as part of the senior management team, help map the future of the brand as a whole.

• Define and execute a creative strategy that encompassses both our B2B employer channel, and D2C consumer channels.

• Work with our leadership, marketing and performance teams to develop the right visuals and voice for the EXOS brand

• Lead the process to define and align on an annual content calendar for EXOS.

• 15+ years experience in visual design with clearly demonstrated expertise in digital

• Creative agency experience - Ideally from the art director/graphic designer side of the business

• Current or recent artist experience from a top advertising or design agency who wants to move client side.

• Someone with a full portfolio of breakthrough, award-winning creative work

• Recognized expertise in digital/interactive design, user-centered experience design, brand development, digital marketing and the creative process—as well as new platforms and technologies for the digital channel and related media

• Proven leadership skills. We need people who are confident with everything from team building to mentoring to guiding large groups of creative talent.

• Proven experience creating best-in-class content for a national sports/fitness brand; Ideally someone who has played competitive team sports

• Strong ability to provide clear creative direction, career path guidance and timely and helpful feedback to improve creative processes to keep work on budget and schedule.

• Excellent presentation skills and communication abilities at all levels of both internal and client organizations.

• Someone who can represent our culture and standards to all levels and disciplines within the department, company-wide, and across the industry

• BFA in advertising (art direction or design) preferred

• A passion for sports, fitness or the high performance lifestyle.

EXOS’ purpose - to become the world’s leading human performance company - is grounded in the organization’s history and proven methodology, as well as its unparalleled reputation within the world of professional and elite athletes.

In 1999, Mark Verstegen pioneered an industry that didn’t exist, now known as integrated human performance training. Verstegen created EXOS, then called Athletes’ Performance, with the goal of helping athletes achieve optimal performance. Initially, the business was focused on working with elite athletes (professional, college, Olympians and the special forces in the military) across four pillars of performance - mindset, nutrition, movement and recovery. EXOS designed and delivered bespoke programs for these individual athletes via one-on-one coaching, as well as immersive visits to EXOS’ elite training facilities, located at their headquarters in Phoenix, where athletes and servicemen/women could come for days and/or weeks to train.

From its perch at the tip of the pyramid of the performance space, EXOS expanded its impact by integrating its methodology with purpose-built technology to deliver scaled services to employer populations. EXOS formed deep partnerships with several of the most innovative employers and began to penetrate this outcome-driven space with its people, programs and solutions.

In December of 2014, EXOS expanded both its reach and impact by acquiring MediFit, a leading provider of corporate and community fitness and wellness centers (gyms). This furthered EXOS expansion beyond the individual athlete into the business of designing and managing fitness and wellness centers within corporations, universities, community hospitals and centers, residential communities and other recreational centers. Simultaneously, EXOS continued to invest in its Physical Therapy / Sports Medicine offering via additional acquisitions.

The marrying of Athletes’ Performance and MediFit and the continued expansion into PT have proven to be a fortuitous combination. In the past five years, EXOS’ business has grown +185% and today serves four distinct segments:

• Employer Fitness and Performance. 55% of the business. EXOS has a 30% market share of the Employer Fitness business with 300,000 active members within 250+ corporations across 500+ locations and six continents. 25% of the Fortune 100 are EXOS’ clients.

• Elite Athletes and the Military. 10% of the business. With training centers now in four locations (Phoenix, Dallas, San Diego and Pensacola), EXOS works with up to 300 elite athletes at any given moment across a range of sports including: MBA/baseball, NFL/football (EXOS trained 48% of 2019 NFL First & Second Round Draft Picks), NBA/basketball, MLS/soccer, PGA/Golf, tennis, swimming, lacrosse, field & track, Olympians (if EXOS were a country its athletes would have placed 8th in the 2016 Summer Olympics ) and even the winning soccer World Cup American Women’s team. For the Navy, EXOS developed a program focused on nutrition and movement called the Navy Operational Fitness and Fueling Program that has since been rolled out to 425,000 servicemen/women in the form of a digital training tool that factors in constrained training spaces.

• Physical Therapy Centers. 10% of the business. As an extension of recovery, EXOS has 70 PT /Sports Medicine centers across 16 states in the US, Canada and the UK.

• Community Fitness Centers. 15% of the business. EXOS designs and manages large community fitness and wellness centers with 21 locations throughout the United States.

EXOS’ ability to lead in human performance is grounded in 20+ years of bespoke Sports Science and the development of proprietary tools across sleep analysis, mindset focus, fuel planning and movement efficiency.

EXOS’ vision is to provide everyone with access to the world’s most intelligent coaching services and insights enabling each of us to achieve our full performance potential.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us !

EXOS is proud to be an affirmative action / equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, creed, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under local, state, or federal laws. EXOS provides reasonable accommodation to employees and applicants for employment who have disabilities. You may request reasonable accommodation, in writing, by reaching out to our People Operations department at:

Attention: People Operations, Accommodations

2629 E. Rose Garden Ln.

Phoenix, AZ 85050