Creative
Director
— What Oldis Media Is
Oldis Media is an internal media company built on one belief: attention is the most valuable resource in the world, and most brands have no idea how to earn it.
We exist to understand how to get attention, create desire, and inspire someone to take action — then apply that system across a portfolio of companies. We are not a marketing department. We are not an agency. We are a media company that happens to serve brands we own.
Oldis Road
DTC leather goods. The proving ground.
Oldis Foundry
Leatherwork supply. Hardware. The maker’s maker.
Jonathan Jamieson
Founder’s personal brand. The connective tissue across everything.
Oldis Media sits alongside the Head of Ecom at Oldis Road — not above, not below. A client-agency relationship. They bring the brief and the budget. You bring the creative system that makes their spend work harder.
— The Problem You’re Solving
The team is talented. Production is consistent. What’s missing is someone upstream of all of it asking harder questions.
What formats haven’t we tried? What’s working in a completely different category that applies here? What does the comment section tell us about what people actually felt? Where is attention moving that we haven’t gone yet?
— How We Think About Content
Content is not about aesthetics. It’s not about production value. It’s not about looking like a brand.
It’s about human behavior. Why does someone stop scrolling? What makes them watch to the end? What triggers them to share? What’s happening in the three seconds before they decide to keep watching or keep scrolling?
Organic is not a separate strategy from paid. It’s a testing ground. What earns attention organically gets scaled on paid. The Creative Director understands this loop intimately — and uses it to make every dollar of ad spend work harder.
The person we’re looking for runs this loop constantly: observe, theorize, test. Every piece of content they consume is data. They’re not watching — they’re studying.
— What You Own
— Who You Are
You are a student of attention. You watch content the way a scientist watches an experiment — pulling out the variables, forming hypotheses, testing them. You understand that a comment section is a focus group. That watch time is a truth serum. That shares are the highest signal of all.
You don’t care which platform attention lives on. You care about what’s driving it and how to earn it. You’re not chasing trends — you’re studying the psychology underneath them.
You have strong creative instincts and you know when to trust data over taste — and when to trust taste over data. You’ll make something you personally find ugly if the signal says it converts. You’ll also push back on something that tests well but feels wrong for the brand. That tension is where you live.
You’ve spent time in agency world. You’re good at your job. But you’re tired of selling things you don’t believe in — churning through briefs for products with no story, no soul, no history. You want both performance and meaning.
— What It’s Like Here
Six people on the team. Talented, skilled, ready to be pushed. You’re their creative north star — not their project manager. You set the direction and the standard.
The founder has a strong point of view and clear instincts. He’s close to the brand. Once there’s trust, you own it.
We’re building a portfolio of brands that all need great creative leadership. The system you build here gets replicated across everything that comes next. The person who builds it grows with that vision.
How to Apply
Three things. That’s all we need.
- Show us something that got attention. A piece of content — yours or something you studied — that performed. Tell us why you think it worked. Not the surface answer. The real one.
- Tell us how you’d grow Oldis Road from 250K to 5M followers. Not a framework — a direction. What’s the angle, what’s the first move, what are you testing in month one.
- Tell us why this makes sense for you right now. Why Oldis Media, why this role, why now.