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Associate Creative Director

Able&Co. · Raleigh, NC · 3 wk ago
Art & CreativeFull-time

About the Role

You are ready to become an emerging leader within Able&Co. as an Associate Creative Director, helping shape the creative vision of the agency while remaining hands-on in the work. You possess both exceptional creative talent and strategic thinking, enabling you to transform business challenges into compelling brand experiences that deliver measurable results. You naturally see the bigger picture—balancing creativity, strategy, client expectations, timelines, and budgets.

The Associate Creative Director serves as both creative leader and practitioner, partnering closely with Strategy, Account Services, and the Creative Director to develop thoughtful, strategically grounded creative solutions across multiple clients and industries. You’ll oversee projects from discovery through execution, ensuring every deliverable meets Able&Co.’s standards for creativity, quality, accuracy, and effectiveness. As a trusted advisor to both clients and internal teams, you’ll confidently articulate creative rationale, lead presentations, manage resources, and ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and aligned with each client’s business objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Creative Leadership
    • Lead creative development from concept through production, ensuring all work aligns with client strategy, brand standards, and Able&Co.’s creative excellence.
    • Translate strategic briefs into compelling, integrated creative solutions across print, digital, video, social, and experiential channels.
    • Inspire innovative thinking and maintain consistency and quality across all deliverables.
  • Team Leadership
    • Mentor, coach, and develop designers while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and positive creative culture.
    • Provide constructive feedback and serve as the primary creative resource for assigned team members.
  • Client Partnership
    • Build trusted client relationships by confidently presenting creative concepts and articulating the strategic rationale behind design decisions.
    • Partner with Account Services to align expectations, project scope, timelines, and resources.
  • Project Management
    • Oversee creative workflows, prioritize workloads, and proactively manage project progress to ensure work is delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.
    • Ensure all creative assets are production-ready, technically accurate, and error-free.
  • Strategic & Agency Leadership
    • Collaborate with Strategy to develop creative solutions that solve business challenges and strengthen brands.
    • Contribute to new business efforts, improve agency processes, and stay current on design trends, emerging technologies, and AI tools to continually elevate the agency’s creative capabilities.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional creative agency or in-house brand experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading creative teams and mentoring designers.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns and strategic thinking.
  • Exceptional typography, layout, branding, and visual storytelling skills.
  • Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud:
    • InDesign
    • Illustrator
    • Photoshop
    • XD or Figma
    • Premiere Pro
    • After Effects
  • Experience with emarketing platforms (HubSpot, MailChimp) and WordPress.
  • Experience with UX/UI design principles.
  • Strong understanding of print production and digital asset creation.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced agency environment.
  • Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback.
  • Strong project management and prioritization skills.
  • Experience collaborating across creative, strategy, account service, and production teams.

About the Company

Able&Co. is a woman-owned strategic marketing and communications agency based in Raleigh, NC. Founded in 2008, our diverse team of subject matter experts is unified in our purpose: to help our clients transform and influence the way their brand is perceived, both internally and externally. We are dedicated to creating customer success—not just customer happiness—through results-driven, award-winning creative solutions that are always grounded in strategy.

We prioritize the right things and see the big picture with a unique and often unexpected perspective. That’s why we’re often considered an extension of our clients’ teams. Our relationships, with each other and our clients, are not transactional but are deeply rooted in trust, respect, and true collaboration.

We operate with a start-up mentality, where smart ideas require the constant support of a skilled team. Individuals understand the correct function of each factor to successfully nurture and develop the whole. Although we’re always learning, this is the place where your contributions are based on your expertise and experience—the kind of experience that enables you to be a thought leader who can think three steps ahead to guide our clients on their path to success.

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