Executive Director, Strategy - CREO at Omnicom Media US | Chicago, IL | $150K/yr – $250K/yr

Executive Director, Strategy - CREO

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $250K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative vision across client engagements, translate strategy into creator powered concepts, and lead a cross functional team to deliver measurable outcomes.

Creative leadership: set standards, ensure insight led, differentiated work aligned with brand KPIs.
Creator led processes: develop native workflows that enable creators to contribute to campaign ideas.
Cross functional collaboration: partner with Analytics, Paid Media, Production, and Account Management to balance ambition with commercial rigor.

Job Description

Develop and lead the creative vision, standards and creative output across Creo's client engagements, ensuring alignment with cultural moments, client objectives and market trends.
Set the creative direction and standards across all high-impact client initiatives and new business, ensuring work is insight-led, differentiated, and creatively compelling while commercially grounded.
Establish and uphold agency-wide standards for creative excellence, ensuring consistent quality, innovation, effectiveness and craft across all creative outputs.
Interrogate creative briefs to uncover core challenges, identify hidden opportunities, and clearly communicate creative direction and deliverables to internal teams and clients.
Serve as the creative lead translating strategic direction into compelling campaign concepts, content architectures, creator-first storytelling opportunities and creative systems that drive measurable results.
Develop creator-native creative processes that enable creators to meaningfully contribute to, shape and evolve campaign ideas.
Lead and mentor a creative team, coaching creative personnel at all levels on strategic thinking, craft, career progression, and performance management.
Define creative briefing, review and feedback processes that elevate creative craft, improve consistency and strengthen the overall quality of creative output.
Partner with strategy and production teams to establish ideal environments and processes for creativity to thrive while maintaining commercial rigor and project feasibility.
Conduct deep research to understand audience needs, emotions, and aspirations, translating insights into creative strategies that align influencer casting and content to brand KPIs and business outcomes.