Creative Director

About the role

About Thesis Thesis is an independent agency working at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and technology. We partner with ambitious brands to solve complex business and marketing challenges and create ideas, experiences, and systems built to scale. We’re evolving how we work to bring thinking and making closer together, build more accountable teams, and use technology and AI to expand what’s creatively possible.

Role Overview As a Creative Director at Thesis, you’ll establish the creative vision for the clients, teams, and opportunities you lead. You’ll turn business and audience challenges into ideas worth pursuing, build belief around those ideas, and lead multidisciplinary teams to make them real. You’re a thinker and a maker with strong taste, strategic instincts, and the ability to move between ideas and execution. You know when to get into the work and when to create space for others to lead. You’ll be accountable for the idea, the people, the client relationship, and the creative outcome, while managing, mentoring, and developing the next generation of creative leaders.

Responsibilities

• Creative Vision & Ideas: Establish the creative vision for assigned clients, accounts, and opportunities. Turn business, audience, and cultural insights into strong ideas and creative opportunities. Lead concept development and ensure ideas maintain their integrity as they scale across channels, experiences, and content.
• Strategic Thinking: Partner with Strategy and clients to define the problem and opportunity before defining the deliverable. Connect creative decisions to audience needs, brand ambition, culture, and business objectives. Look beyond the immediate ask to identify opportunities for greater client and creative impact.
• Creative & People Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary teams across design, writing, motion, experience, content, and emerging disciplines. Set a high creative standard while staying close enough to the work to meaningfully shape and elevate it. Manage, mentor, and develop creative talent and emerging leaders through clear expectations, feedback, and meaningful