Creative Director / AD

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of creative platforms, campaigns, and experiences that align with client business objectives, brand strategy, and audience needs.
• Connect creativity to broader business and marketing strategy—helping clients unlock new value through differentiated ideas, storytelling, and experience design.
• Partner with senior agency leadership to identify opportunities where creativity can drive growth, transformation, or competitive advantage for clients.
• Provide clear strategic rationale for creative recommendations, ensuring ideas are grounded in insight and tied to outcomes.
• Serve as a client-facing creative leader—presenting work, shaping ambition, and building trusted, long-term relationships.
• Contribute to new business development, pitches, and growth initiatives by helping define compelling creative visions and points of view.
• Elevate client ambition by challenging assumptions and reframing problems through creative and strategic thinking.
• Balance bold creative thinking with client realities, including timelines, budgets, organizational dynamics, and business constraints.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary teams across creative, experience, and strategy, fostering collaboration, accountability, and curiosity.
• Guide teams across multiple projects and clients while maintaining a consistently high standard of thinking and craft.
• Create an environment where diverse perspectives and ideas are valued and explored.
• Champion the thoughtful integration of AI and emerging technologies into creative workflows, ideation, and execution.
• Encourage experimentation with new tools and methods that improve speed, quality, insight, and scalability—without compromising originality or ethics.
• Stay current on creative, cultural, and technological trends, translating relevance into practical application for clients and teams.
• Help evolve agency processes and ways of working to reflect modern creative leadership.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8-12 years of relevant creative experience, with progressive leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams across design, copy, experience, and strategy.
• Strong exposure to business strategy, brand strategy, and client decision-making—not just creative execution.
• Strong Art Direction and design skills necessary.
• Agency experience required; experience across digital, integrated, and omnichannel work strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to influence clients, collaborate with senior leaders, guide complex ideas with charismatic presentation skills and ability to sell work through.
• Portfolio or body of work demonstrating strategic thinking, creative excellence, and business impact.