Creative Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Job Summary

Own the high level creative strategy that defines briefs, persuades C-level clients, and writes platform-level narratives; lead a small team and shape transformation work that moves beyond ads.

  • Strategy and storytelling: translate business problems into manifestos, vision papers, and platform ideas.
  • Executive influence: present to leaders, build trust, and steer conversations that shape engagements long term.
  • Talent leadership: coach writers and art directors to raise the creative bar and think bigger.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Solve business problems with creative thinking. You're not here to execute a brief, you're here to help define it. You'll work alongside strategists and clients to figure out what a business actually needs, then lead the creative thinking that gets them there.
  • Be in the room. You'll present ideas to C-suite leaders, shape high-stakes conversations, and build the kind of client trust that turns a single engagement into a long-term relationship. Your creative perspective will influence decisions that go well beyond a brand's visual identity or tagline.
  • Write and concept at the highest level. Manifestos, vision papers, purpose frameworks, scripts, narrative platforms — you'll produce the work that sets the creative standard, and you'll know the difference between copy that sounds good and copy that actually does something.
  • Make strategy feel like something. You'll partner with our strategists to ensure insights aren't just smart — they're expressed in a way that creates a genuine emotional and intellectual response. The brief doesn't end at the strategy deck. It ends when someone feels it.
  • Lead and develop creative talent. You'll manage and form a team of writers, art directors, and creative thinkers, coaching them to think bigger. You model the standard as much as you set it.

Requirements

  • 8–10 years in creative roles, with meaningful time in brand, purpose, or transformation work — not primarily in advertising campaign production
  • A portfolio that proves you think at the level of business problems, not just executions — brand stories, manifestos, platform ideas, vision frameworks
  • Direct client-facing experience : presenting, shaping conversations, building trust at the leadership level
  • A track record of genuine collaboration with strategists, not just receiving briefs from them
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co:collective

co: is a creative and strategic transformation consultancy. We believe today's most successful organizations infuse their purpose into everything they do to generate more value, for more people, more sustainably. We call businesses that operate this way generative.At co:, we design brands, experiences, and organizations in order to transform who they are, what they do, and how they show up in the world. We lead businesses through this transformation so they can unlock more possibilities for themselves and the stakeholders they serve.Since our founding in 2010, co: has helped hundreds of businesses uncover their purpose and learn how to live it – from Fortune 50 brands and beloved consumer icons to community-based non-profits, innovative startups and beyond.

Founded in 2010
New York, New York, USA
32 employees (6 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $180K/yr

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Creative median pay in the United States

$109K/yr

Most pay falls between $83K and $155K. Based on 2,555 salaries.

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Creative Director

co:collective · New York City, NY · Hybrid