Associate Creative Director

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

$105K/yr – $135K/yrMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and guide the creative direction of pitches and campaigns from concept to execution, translating business challenges into compelling platforms across digital, CRM, and integrated programs.

  • Lead end-to-end creative development for new business pitches
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with strategy, lifecycle, performance, and technology teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creative development of new business pitches, translating business challenges and audience insights into compelling creative platforms, concepts, and experiences.
  • Develop beautiful, strategically grounded creative across digital, social, CRM, lifecycle, brand, and integrated campaigns.
  • Bring fresh thinking to both B2C and B2B challenges, understanding how to create meaningful connections with consumers, customers, and business decision-makers.
  • Create standout pitch presentations, visual storytelling, campaign concepts, and prototypes that bring ideas to life and build belief with prospective clients.
  • Translate complex products, services, and business challenges into clear, distinctive, emotionally resonant creative.
  • Partner closely with strategy, lifecycle, performance, and technology teams to develop solutions that solve real business problems.
  • Connect creative decisions to business impact, understanding how creative drives acquisition, engagement, conversion, retention, loyalty, and growth.
  • Bring deep fluency in digital customer journeys, CRM, personalization, and omnichannel experiences.
  • Balance breakthrough thinking with commercial realities, ensuring ideas are ambitious, relevant, executable, and measurable.
  • Think beyond individual campaigns to connected experiences that create lasting value for brands.

Requirements

  • A multidisciplinary creative with 6–8 years of experience in creative, design, or art direction, ideally within a digitally focused agency or dynamic environment.
  • An outstanding portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, original thinking, and design excellence across both B2C and B2B brands.
  • Deep expertise in digital-first creative, with meaningful experience across integrated campaigns, lifecycle marketing, CRM, email, digital experiences, and social platforms.
  • A strong foundation in art direction, typography, design systems, visual storytelling, and brand expression.
  • A rare combination of visionary and maker who pairs strong creative judgment with the willingness to roll up your sleeves and build the work yourself.
  • Proven ability to turn a loose brief, blank page, or ambiguous business challenge into a compelling creative direction.
  • A compelling storyteller who presents, defends, and evolves creative work persuasively in high-stakes pitches and client collaborations.
  • Fluent with contemporary design tools and curious and experimental with emerging AI-powered creative workflows.
  • Optimistic, competitive, low-ego, collaborative, and driven to make the people around you sharper.
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Thesis

We craft scalable marketing solutions to move businesses forward by blending creativity, technology, strategy and operations.

Founded in 2002
Portland, Oregon, USA
225 employees (92 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$105K/yr – $135K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Creative median pay in the United States

$110K/yr

Most pay falls between $83K and $155K. Based on 2,637 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
30 (13% of company)
Median Tenure
0.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.5%
Direct
53.2%
Referral
6.4%
Social
8.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225
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Associate Creative Director

Thesis · Portland, OR · Hybrid