Responsibilities

• Lead integrated creative development across multiple clients, industries, and business challenges.
• Partner closely with strategists, account leaders, media teams, and fellow creatives to develop breakthrough campaign ideas.
• Guide teams through concept development, refinement, and execution.
• Push creative teams beyond expected solutions to uncover more original, impactful ideas.
• Contribute to agency thought leadership, innovation initiatives, and new business opportunities.
• Develop and oversee campaign messaging, brand platforms, scripts, content strategies, and integrated storytelling approaches.
• Ensure messaging remains strategically focused while emotionally resonant and culturally relevant.
• Establish clear narrative direction and voice across campaigns and communications.
• Review and refine creative output, providing clear, actionable feedback that elevates the work.
• Mentor art directors, copywriters, designers, and emerging creative leaders.

Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating breakthrough conceptual thinking, exceptional storytelling, and leadership across integrated campaigns.
• 8–12 years of agency or integrated marketing experience.
• Proven ability to lead creative teams and guide campaigns from concept through execution.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling, messaging, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing campaign platforms, brand narratives, scripts, and integrated content strategies.
• Experience presenting and selling creative work to senior clients and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing creative talent.
• Strong understanding of how creativity drives business growth and brand performance.
• Curiosity about culture, technology, and evolving consumer behavior.
• Experience utilizing AI and emerging creative technologies as part of the creative process.

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