Creative Director

Kansas City, MO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive creative leadership and strategy for Crux, shaping standards, workflow, and performance across client work.

  • Own and define the creative standard across all client work.
  • 10+ years of experience in creative roles with increasing leadership responsibility.
  • Strong portfolio showing conceptual thinking and execution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and define the creative standard across all client work
  • Lead concept development across campaigns, brand initiatives, and key deliverables
  • Translate business objectives and strategy into clear creative direction
  • Ensure consistency, quality, and clarity across all outputs
  • Stay close to the work by reviewing, refining, and elevating creative deliverables
  • Ensure work is not only strong creatively but drives measurable performance in the market
  • Use performance data and insights to refine and improve creative over time
  • Balance speed with quality in a fast-paced environment
  • Push teams toward clear, simple, and impactful solutions
  • Lead, mentor, and develop designers, writers, and creative contributors

Requirements

  • Milestone Goals
  • - Within 90 days: Evaluate and elevate existing creative standards, identifying opportunities to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency
  • - Within 6 months: Enhance creative workflows, feedback loops, and cross-functional collaboration to improve output quality and speed
  • - Within 6 to 9 months: Strengthen integration between creative, strategy, and channel teams to ensure work consistently performs
  • - Within 9 months: Develop and implement a scalable creative process that supports continued growth and efficiency
  • What You Bring:
  • - 10+ years of experience in creative roles with increasing leadership responsibility
  • - Proven experience leading and developing creative teams across multiple clients in fast-paced, high-accountability environments
  • - Experience leading creative across digital ecosystems (social, paid media, web, video)
  • - Strong understanding of platform-specific creative best practices (e.g., Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube)
  • - Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and modern production workflows
  • - Ability to translate strategy into effective, high-performing creative work
  • - Strong portfolio demonstrating both conceptual thinking and execution
  • - High standards for quality with a bias toward action and ownership
  • - Confidence presenting and defending work with clients and senior stakeholders
  • - Previous experience in a marketing agency or a creative leadership role required