Creative Director

About the role

Liquid Agency is a brand consulting and activation company that fuels growth, creates value, and captures ROI by designing experiences for brands and their customers and employees that connect with the heart of an organization’s real meaning and purpose. This role is remote but requires being based in the U.S. and available to work primarily Central hours.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the creative lead across client accounts, ensuring all work is grounded in strategy and aligned to the brief
• Partner with Strategy to shape clear, inspiring briefs and lead concept development across brand, digital, and campaign work
• Present and sell ideas with confidence, translating creative into compelling narratives for clients, including senior stakeholders
• Push our already boundary-breaking creative teams to leverage the rapidly expanding AI tools, platforms, and workflows to the next level of innovative, effective, and efficient outcomes
• Guide teams through execution, aligning with Client Services and Program Management to ensure timelines, budgets, and quality outcomes
• Drive account growth by identifying new opportunities, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to business development
• Mentor and develop creative talent while fostering strong, collaborative partnerships across teams

Requirements

• 10+ years of senior creative leadership experience, ideally within an agency or consulting environment
• A strong conceptual foundation, with a portfolio that demonstrates beautiful & thoughtful campaign thinking, brand design, experience design, and big ideas brought to life across digital and integrated platforms
• A strong background in B to B across niche industries, showing compelling conceptual chops that deliver direct business value as well as consistent creative and experiential excellence
• A background rooted in design and/or art direction, with a progression into creative leadership
• Experience leading and inspiring multidisciplinary teams across brand, digital, and campaign work, with proven partnership with copywriting to deliver strategic intent
• Proven ability to sell and deliver high-impact creative work that drives business results while being on-strategy
• Strong business acumen, including comfort managing scope, budgets, and profitability
• Established and demonstrable fluency and skills with a broad range of AI tools, because you already have embraced the benefits of human-first AI-powered creativity
• Proven enthusiasm to use modern collaborative creative tools like Figma & Miro, with Figma base-level fluency especially important for ease of collaboration
• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with experience engaging senior and executive-level clients
• A strategic and entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to connect creative ideas to business outcomes
• A passion for mentoring and developing talent, and building strong collaborative teams

Qualifications

• Empathy in Action — understanding what matters to audiences, clients, and teammates
• Commitment, Always — taking ownership of outcomes and pushing for excellence
• Team-Powered Success — believing the best ideas come from collaboration
• Humility in All Endeavors — staying curious, open, and always learning
• Courage to Challenge — pushing thinking forward and not being afraid to take smart risks

Skills

• Whole-brain thinking — imaginative and intentional
• Collaborative environment — thriving in a fast-moving setting
• Optimistic, entrepreneurial, and driven to make a measurable difference through the work

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Remote, work-from-home position, available to work primarily Central hours