Responsibilities

• Lead integrated concept development across multiple clients, industries, and business challenges.
• Partner with copywriters and multidisciplinary teams to translate a sharp human insight into a clear, ownable campaign platform.
• Guide teams through divergent thinking, selection, refinement, and execution—pushing beyond the first expected answer.
• Ensure every visual choice serves the central idea and every execution connects back to the strategy.
• Contribute original thinking to pitches, organic growth opportunities, agency initiatives, and thought leadership.
• Define distinctive visual directions across composition, typography, image-making, motion, interaction, and experience.
• Create and direct moodboards, styleframes, storyboards, comps, and prototypes that make ideas tangible and help teams and clients see the possibility.
• Maintain a coherent brand world as work adapts across social, digital, video, print, experiential, and emerging channels.
• Review and refine work with clear, specific feedback that improves both the idea and the execution.
• Mentor art directors, designers, copywriters, and emerging creative leaders while adapting guidance to each person’s strengths and growth goals.

Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating breakthrough conceptual thinking, distinctive visual worlds, exceptional art direction and design craft, and leadership across integrated campaigns.
• 8–12 years of agency or integrated marketing experience, including meaningful team and client leadership responsibility.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary creative teams and guide campaigns from brief through production.
• Deep expertise in art direction, design systems, typography, image-making, motion, and visual storytelling—paired with strong copy and narrative judgment.
• Experience presenting and selling creative work to senior clients and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success mentoring creative talent and raising the quality of a team—not only individual assignments.
• Strong understanding of how strategy, craft, channels, production, and measurement work together to create business and brand impact.
• Curiosity about culture, technology, platforms, and evolving audience behavior, paired with the judgment to separate signal from novelty.
• Hands-on experience using generative image and emerging visual tools for comps and concept development, with sound judgment about consistency, feasibility, disclosure, licensing, and final-production quality.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, presentation, prioritization, and leadership skills.

Benefits

• Hybrid flexibility - RP3 is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, so if you are DMV-based, that is definitely a bonus — but not a barrier. If you can get here by train, plane, or automobile, you are in the running. We want the right person, wherever they are.
• A culture built on curiosity, kindness, accountability, and wildly original thinking
• Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
• Employee-paid dental and vision plans
• 401(k) with immediate employer match
• Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
• Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
• Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
• Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance