Creative Director

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

$130K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and raise the creative bar across a boutique agency focused on gaming, esports, and youth culture by shaping strategy, leading culture-forward concepts, and building out a scalable creative team.

  • Creative Leadership: define and maintain quality across the full creative output for top partners.
  • Culture and Production: drive VFX and platform-native work that resonates with youth culture while aligning with brand strategy.
  • Team & Ops: build and scale the department, with clear resourcing and a path from junior talent to senior leads.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creative Vision and Excellence
  • Serve as the primary stakeholder for creative quality control.
  • Ensure no work leaves the agency without a senior vision applied.
  • Align creative output with brand direction and agency standards.
  • Lead the development of culturally relevant work for major partners including Riot Games, Adidas, and Alienware.
  • Apply a deep understanding of youth culture to reimagine marketing moments.
  • Lead development of VFX-enhanced broadcast spots and platform-native content.
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Partner with the Strategy team to integrate strategy as a service across all creative work.
  • Ensure creative concepts solve deep-rooted brand problems, not just surface-level briefs.

Requirements

  • 12 or more years of experience in a creative role, with a significant portion at the senior or director level.
  • Agency background is required, with experience at established, high-standard creative agencies.
  • Proven experience building and leading a creative department, including hiring, structuring, and developing teams across both traditional creative roles (Art Directors, copywriters, designers) and production personnel (producers, editors, motion designers, and technical specialists).
  • Proven track record delivering integrated marketing work across multiple channels and platforms.
  • Deep expertise in gaming, esports, and digital culture.
  • Experience with immersive worlds such as Minecraft, Roblox, or Fortnite is a plus.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving agency environment.
  • Passion for mentoring junior talent and building agency infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Ability to travel domestically approximately 25% for client meetings, cross-functional planning sessions, and agency initiatives as needed.

Benefits

  • This position is eligible for company-provided benefits, which may include health insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, and retirement-related benefits, subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.
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Born from the waters of Team Liquid, we're Liquid Media - creators and strategists helping brands authentically connect with gamers. Liquid Media is a full-service, digital-first agency that offers brands the expertise and knowledge gained from decades of reaching, engaging, and selling to global gaming audiences. Working beside the world’s largest and most successful esports organization, we are a unique player in the creative agency space.Reach out today and Let’s Make Something.

Santa Monica, California, USA
273 employees (43 in marketing)

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