Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of art directors, designers, and copywriters, fostering a culture of creative excellence and continuous growth
• Drive creative vision and execution across multiple simultaneous accounts, specializing in premium brand identity, packaging, and integrated campaign design
• Present, articulate, and confidently defend creative concepts to executive-level clients
• Partner closely with strategy, account management, and production to ensure work is strategically sound and flawlessly executed
• Navigate the nuances of a highly regulated industry — using constraints as a catalyst for innovative, compliant creative solutions
• Act as a steward of the agency's premium design standards across all output
• Lead and execute strong conceptual campaigns, print, out-of-home, digital, experiential, activations, and more

Requirements

• Demonstrated senior creative leadership experience within an agency environment
• A compelling, high-caliber portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft in brand identity, packaging, and campaign design
• Proven track record managing and mentoring large creative teams
• Exceptional client-facing skills, including experience presenting to C-suite stakeholders
• Comfort working on tobacco industry accounts

Benefits

• We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.