Make the best work of your career, and have fun doing it.

We’re a remote-first creative studio building brands worth talking about. Always hiring talent that thinks. If you don’t see the role you’re looking for, send us your work anyway.

You’ll partner directly with founders, CMOs, and creative directors to translate ambition into brand positioning that holds. Comfortable across hospitality, entertainment, lifestyle and real estate. You’ve led brand strategy engagements from research through articulation.

This is a senior seat with a direct line to leadership on our largest engagements.

What you’ll do

  • Lead brand strategy engagements end to end
  • Facilitate immersive discovery with client leadership
  • Author positioning, narrative, and brand architecture
  • Partner with design and creative to bring strategy to life

What we’re looking for

  • 6+ years of strategy experience in a premium agency setting
  • A portfolio of brands you can walk us through
  • Fluency in hospitality or lifestyle categories a plus
  • Comfortable in a small, high-autonomy remote team

You’re a design leader who can hold both the concept and the craft. You’ll own identity systems from first mark through every application, and mentor a small remote team of designers along the way.

We look for range: editorial, brand systems, environmental, motion adjacency.

What you’ll do

  • Lead identity and design system engagements
  • Set the visual bar across the studio’s output
  • Direct designers, illustrators, and photographers
  • Partner with strategy on brand articulation

What we’re looking for

  • 7+ years of brand and identity design
  • A portfolio of built brands, not just decks
  • Fluency in Figma, comfort in Adobe CS
  • Leadership experience with junior designers

You write like a maker and think like a strategist. You’ll shape brand voice from tagline to touchpoint, and partner with strategy and design across every discipline the studio touches.

What you’ll do

  • Author brand voice, verbal identity, and messaging systems
  • Write campaign concepts, headlines, and long-form editorial
  • Craft names, taglines, and manifestos
  • Edit and polish work across the studio

What we’re looking for

  • 5+ years of agency or in-house brand writing
  • A portfolio with brand voice work you can talk through
  • Range: from luxury hospitality to challenger consumer
  • Strong opinions, gently held

You’re the operational spine of our creative work. You keep briefs sharp, timelines honest, and the studio calm under pressure. You’ll produce projects across brand, campaign, and production.

What you’ll do

  • Own project timelines, budgets, and scoping
  • Manage cross-functional teams and freelance collaborators
  • Lead client-facing production and content shoots
  • Keep the studio running on-time and on-brief

What we’re looking for

  • 5+ years of agency or in-house production
  • Fluent in project management tools (we use Wrike)
  • Cool head, sharp eye, resourceful
  • Photo and video shoot production experience

You live in the culture. You’ll shape social strategy and daily execution across our client roster and our own channels. This is a maker’s role: strategy, calendaring, copywriting, community, reporting.

What you’ll do

  • Own social strategy and monthly content calendars
  • Draft copy, direct creative, and manage community
  • Analyze performance and iterate
  • Partner with strategy and creative on campaigns

What we’re looking for

  • 3+ years managing brand social channels
  • Portfolio with clear before/after metrics
  • Comfortable filming, editing, and posting yourself
  • Sharp taste, sharper opinions on the feed

You bring identities to life. You’ll design motion systems for brand identities, direct animated campaigns, and shape the moving image across everything we make.

What you’ll do

  • Design brand motion systems (logo animations, transitions, kinetic type)
  • Animate campaign creative for OOH, digital, and social
  • Direct external animators and animation vendors
  • Contribute to concept and storyboarding

What we’re looking for

  • 4+ years in agency or studio motion design
  • Expert in After Effects; bonus for Cinema 4D or Blender
  • A reel that speaks louder than any resume
  • Understanding of brand systems, not just one-off animations

You’re a shooter with an eye for both stills and motion. You’ll direct and shoot brand and campaign work across hospitality, lifestyle, and cultural clients — on location and in-studio.

What you’ll do

  • Direct and shoot brand identity, editorial, and campaign photography
  • Shoot short-form film and social video
  • Manage lighting, styling, and post workflow
  • Partner with creative direction on visual concepting

What we’re looking for

  • Portfolio spanning stills and motion
  • Comfortable directing talent and crews
  • Own or access to professional gear
  • Willing to travel for shoots

You know how creative work gets bought. You’ll build our pipeline, run pitches, and partner with leadership on positioning against the biggest agencies in our target sectors.

What you’ll do

  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities
  • Lead RFP responses and pitch preparation
  • Represent the studio at industry events
  • Partner with marketing on thought leadership

What we’re looking for

  • 5+ years in agency business development
  • Existing relationships in hospitality, lifestyle, or real estate
  • A track record of closed engagements you can talk through
  • Strategic mind, hands-on execution

Fully remote, always makers first, built for the long game.

Remote-first, always

Work from wherever you do your best thinking. We are a distributed team by design.

Time for the work

Generous vacation, holidays, and studio-wide breaks. We take rest as seriously as the craft.

Health & wellness

Medical, dental, and vision. Mental health support. Annual wellness stipend.

Growth budget

Annual budget for conferences, courses, and tools. We want you sharper every year.

Retirement

401(k) with company match. Because premium agencies pay premium salaries and premium benefits.

Studio gatherings

Twice-yearly in-person retreats. Working closely, in person, for a week at a time.

Aidan James Agency is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Since 2011