Executive Director, Creative

New York City, NY (Remote)

$225K/yr – $282K/yrDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

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Job Summary

Lead the creative vision and DEPT embedded client leadership efforts, directing a high-performing Creative team, shaping strategy and enterprise-wide digital experiences, while driving new business, cross-functional collaboration, and client satisfaction through proactive problem-solving and industry insight.

  • Own the creative strategy and team development across digital experiences.
  • Drive cross-functional project strategy with clients to translate vision into concepts and content.
  • Propel new business efforts, presentations, and agency representation with a client-focused approach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As part of the DEPT®’s embedded client leadership team, assist in formulating the company’s future direction for an industry-leading AI client, strategy, vision, and overall business plan.
  • Directly supervise the Creative team across the organization and work to develop them to ensure a high level of performance.
  • Responsible for ensuring that the company hires, retains, and develops the best creative talent and continues to provide a culture that emphasizes collaboration, professional growth, and a strong desire to provide the great products and customer service that the organization is known for.
  • Oversee and lead digital experiences and solutions from conception through implementation.
  • Partner with cross-functional client teams to define project strategy and translate strategy to the development of creative concepts and content ideas.
  • Help to develop creative ideas that can extend across all digital platforms to drive results for our clients.
  • Ensure that the company delivers services and products that always exceed the clients’ expectations, foreseeing any issues and developing solutions to prevent future disruptions to client satisfaction.
  • Contribute to new business efforts, including networking, vision, strategy, creative output, and agency representation.
  • Develop and deliver engaging presentations for internal and external audiences.
  • Work across all departments of B/D® and other stakeholders, including the clients if needed, to achieve the desired results and meet company objectives.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of proven track record of leadership in multi-million dollar digital marketing organizations.
  • Demonstrates excellent leadership, strategic vision, and creative inspiration to foster a cohesive and motivated team from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
  • Strong knowledge of visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, brand development, and the creative process.
  • Strong understanding of performance media and the iterative process to take learnings and apply them to the creative process.
  • A love for typography, interaction, traditional graphic design, and technology.
  • Strong skills in modern design and prototyping tools.
  • A solid point-of-view and a collaborative nature.
  • A diverse sense of taste with the knowledge necessary to apply this to various challenges.
  • Passion for hardware, AI, and technology products.
  • Ability to be self-motivated to learn and stay current with emerging technologies, as well as the ability to teach others.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
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DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

Founded in 2016
Amsterdam, North Holland, NLD
4.5K employees (1,449 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
85% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
186.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40%
Direct
50.1%
Referral
7.4%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
850 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
8 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
28

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