The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Dollar Tree is hiring a Creative Director in Evanston, IL.

• Role description

  Based in Evanston, IL, this Creative Director role offers real ownership over the creative that defines our brand. With 12 years of experience under your belt, you'll step into a contract position paying $151,000 - $225,000 where ownership and momentum matter.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure all deliverables meet brand, accessibility, and platform standards
  • Frame the design rationale so director approvers feel smart agreeing with you
  • Keep the purpose-led brand promise intact while every channel demands its own dialect
  • Translate a founder's gut feeling into a system someone else can extend
  • Read the room mid-presentation and reorder the deck on the fly
  • Prototype interface ideas fast enough to kill the weak ones cheaply

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
  • A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
  • Resilience measured across 11 years of creative cycles
  • The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
  • A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
  • Cross-functional ease, from Communication engineers to Affinity Diagramming marketers

  The quality-obsessed founders of Dollar Tree built it in Evanston to fix the exact creative problems that drove them crazy elsewhere. The Dollar Tree promise is plain: clear expectations, real autonomy, and zero surprise reviews.

  The number is $151,000 - $225,000; the rest is mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and a contract arrangement that respects your evenings.

  This role is in active recruitment, with a target start date just ahead.

  Think you can bring something different to our creative team? Prove it by applying.

• Required skills

  • Wireframing
  • Affinity Diagramming
  • Motion Design
  • User Personas
  • Storyboarding
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Zeplin
  • Principle
  • Iconography
  • Communication
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring

• Benefits & perks

  • Medical insurance with low premiums
  • Retiree medical benefits
  • 529 college savings plan
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Sabbatical for long-tenured employees
  • Corporate Rates
  • Employee resource groups (ERGs)
  • New hire onboarding stipend
  • Bike-to-work program
  • Mentorship programs

• Apply before 2026-12-06

  Submit your application for this Contract creative position.