Executive Creative Director NEW

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What You’ll Do

• Set and elevate the creative vision across key client relationships and agency initiatives.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across brand, digital, campaign, and experience work to deliver impactful, high-quality creative outcomes.
• Ensure work is strategically grounded, creatively ambitious, and executed with exceptional craft.
• Provide clear creative direction, feedback, and decision making throughout the lifecycle of projects and engagements.
• Serve as a senior creative partner to executive level client stakeholders.
• Lead creative visioning and storytelling for new business opportunities and major presentations.
• Build long term client trust through strong creative leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration.
• Identify opportunities to grow partnerships through innovative and effective creative solutions.
• Mentor and develop Creative Directors and senior creative team members.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusivity, and creative excellence.
• Help shape and grow the agency’s creative talent through recruiting, coaching, and team development.
• Partner closely with Strategy, Technology, Production, and Client Services leadership to drive cohesive outcomes.
• Balance creative ambition with business goals, timelines, budgets, and delivery realities.
• Contribute to agency growth, operational improvements, and evolving creative practices.
• Stay engaged with emerging technologies, creative tools, and evolving behaviors shaping the industry.
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation and innovation across teams and client work.
• Help define how creativity and technology intersect to shape future experiences.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience leading creative work across brand, digital, campaign, and/or product experiences.
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams within an agency or highly collaborative environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating world class creative thinking, craft, storytelling, and business impact.
• Experience building and maintaining trusted relationships with senior and executive level clients.
• Strong understanding of modern brand systems, digital ecosystems, customer experiences, and integrated campaigns.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Proven ability to inspire teams while balancing creative ambition with strategic and operational realities.
• Experience contributing to new business growth, pitch leadership, and agency development.
• Curiosity around emerging technologies and how they can enhance creative processes and outcomes.
• A collaborative, humble, and proactive leadership style.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is $160,000 – $225,000. We have three regional pay ranges that are adjusted for cost of living (US1 %, US2 +7.5%, US3 Base) and cost of living adjustments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k with employer matching
• Unlimited PTO + company wide closures
• Work From Home and wellbeing monthly stipend
• HSA employer contribution
• Professional development stipend
• Paid parental leave