Creative Director (Contract)

Houston, TX (On-site)

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand level creative direction for ARCO Design/Build, turning strategy into usable toolkits, templates, and standards while shaping the activation roadmap and guiding regional teams and external partners.

  • Own brand-level creative direction from strategy to activation
  • Develop and roll out toolkits, templates, and standards
  • Lead the activation roadmap and collaborate with agencies and internal teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own brand-level creative direction across ADB’s corporate and regional work — the standard for how the brand looks, sounds, and shows up everywhere
  • Learn the evolved brand inside out and extend it into what the company actually uses: toolkits, templates, and standards people can pick up and get right on their own
  • Partner with our external branding agency through the build, then take ownership of putting the system into production and keeping it consistent once the work hands off
  • Shape the 2026-2027 activation roadmap and drive its priorities — the proposal system, video and motion, events, environmental graphics, and social
  • Roll up your sleeves on hands-on creative execution for the shared and corporate services teams we support — HR, Talent Acquisition, L&D, Innovation & Technology, Supplier Diversity, Procurement, and Market Research
  • Serve as brand counsel and the steward of creative quality across every touchpoint
  • Set the direction for the designers and specialists who sit across the business, help them speak the brand language fluently, and clear the way for their best work — through a dotted line, not a reporting line
  • Take regional and functional creative requests as they come, routed through Corporate Marketing case by case — producing some work directly, giving templated direction on others, and leading and mentoring the people doing the work throughout
  • Help roll out the evolved brand across the business by educating and training the divisions, building the fluency every team needs to carry the brand well on their own
  • Build out the broader creative infrastructure over time — an asset library and the systems that keep creative findable and repeatable

Requirements

  • 8+ years leading brand and creative, including time inside an in-house or corporate marketing team — not only at an agency
  • Proven brand-level creative direction: you have carried a brand from strategy and guidelines through to activation across channels
  • A track record of turning brand systems into functional toolkits, templates, and standards other people can actually use
  • Experience partnering with external branding, creative, and marketing agencies
  • Strong eye for creative quality across print, digital, video and motion, environmental, and social
  • A leader who sets direction and brings others along through influence and a dotted line, not authority or heavy process
  • Comfort working across regions, business units, and functions in a fast-moving, growth environment
  • A portfolio that shows brand work at scale
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership, initiative, and a bias toward action

Preferred

  • Experience in construction, design-build, commercial real estate, engineering, or other project-based industries preferred

Benefits

  • This is a contract opportunity and is not eligible for employee benefits, paid time off, or company-sponsored retirement plans
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ARCO a Family of Construction Companies

ARCO's goal is the same today as it was when we founded the company 30 years ago – to be the best design-build contractor in the industry and to serve our clients with expert skill and high integrity. We make the construction process enjoyable and beneficial for our associates and customers.Our first core value is to "treat people fairly and do the right thing." We are committed to building and sustaining a culture that supports diversity and inclusion. From recruiting, training, and hiring practices, to the selection of our subcontractors, we understand that the diversity of all those involved in the construction process enhances our ability to deliver the best solutions to our customers.

Founded in 1992
St Louis, Missouri, USA
171 employees (6 in marketing)

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