Creative Lead

What you'll do

• Define and drive the overall creative for brand, marketing, and product campaigns.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary creative team, providing clear feedback and direction throughout the creative process.
• Lead cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, primarily in Europe and North America.
• Actively contribute hands-on creative work while leading the team, ensuring the highest quality across concepts, design, and final execution.
• Work closely with marketing, product, and leadership teams to translate business objectives into strong creative concepts.
• Oversee projects from initial brief through final delivery, ensuring quality, consistency, and attention to detail.
• Develop creative concepts for campaigns across digital, social, video, and other marketing channels.
• Work with and evolve our existing brand identity, creative systems, and visual guidelines while ensuring consistency across all outputs.
• Review and approve creative work, helping elevate ideas through constructive feedback rather than simply signing off on deliverables.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, budgets, and business priorities.
• Help establish creative processes and workflows that enable the team to work efficiently without compromising quality.
• Stay informed on design, branding, and content trends, bringing new ideas and perspectives to the team.

Who you are

• Average 6+ years of experience in creative leadership, with a strong foundation in design and experience across branding, advertising, or digital marketing.
• A portfolio that demonstrates strategic design thinking, creative excellence, and successful execution across multiple channels.
• A consultancy mindset; you're a trusted client partner.
• Experience leading and mentoring creative teams in a collaborative environment.
• A strong understanding of branding, elevated visual communication, storytelling, and content strategy.
• The ability to give clear, constructive feedback that helps people produce stronger work.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with confidence presenting ideas to stakeholders.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and balancing creative quality with business objectives.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to build strong relationships across departments.
• Demonstrated skills in relevant software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma); motion skills are a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience working with performance marketing and digital campaigns.
• Experience building or scaling creative teams and processes.
• Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and evolving content workflows.

About Kurppa Hosk

Kurppa Hosk is a brand agency with 200+ employees and offices in Stockholm, Oslo, New York, Chicago and Amsterdam. We are a part of Eidra, a group of top-notch companies specializing in strategy, creativity, and engineering. As a collective we guide leaders in making meaningful and lasting change.