Creative Director (Copy)

Bethesda, MD (Remote)

$150K/yr – $175K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 9 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative direction across brand strategy and integrated campaigns, guiding concept development, talent leadership, and client confidence.

  • Translate strategy into clear creative territories and platforms
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams from brief through production
  • Frame ideas with strategic rationale to build trust with clients

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define Creative Vision
  • - Translate brand strategy, audience insight, and cultural context into clear creative territories and integrated campaign platforms.
  • - Set a distinctive creative point of view for brands and ensure it can stretch across paid, owned, earned, social, experiential, and emerging channels.
  • - Guide teams beyond the first expected answer toward ideas that are original, useful, and emotionally resonant.
  • - Help shape the long-term creative vision, standards, and capabilities of the agency.
  • Lead Concept and Verbal Excellence
  • - Lead creative development from brief through production across multiple accounts, teams, and workstreams.
  • - Review, edit, and elevate concepts and copy—from campaign platforms, naming, and voice systems to headlines, scripts, social, digital experiences, and long-form storytelling.
  • - Protect a clear brand voice and conceptual throughline as ideas adapt across channels, formats, audiences, and moments.
  • - Partner with strategy, account leadership, media, production, technology, and project management to make ambitious ideas real.

Requirements

  • A portfolio demonstrating breakthrough conceptual thinking, exceptional copy and storytelling craft, creative leadership, and impactful integrated campaigns.
  • 10+ years of agency or integrated marketing experience, including meaningful creative leadership responsibility.
  • A track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, major client relationships, and integrated work from brief through production.
  • Deep expertise in copywriting, brand voice, campaign platforms, scripts, naming, narrative, and the verbal side of creative strategy—paired with strong visual judgment.
  • Demonstrated success creating work that earns attention, builds brands, and drives measurable business results.
  • Experience mentoring senior talent, developing creative leaders, and raising the quality of a department—not only individual assignments.
  • Strong understanding of how creative strategy, craft, channels, production, and measurement work together.
  • Curiosity about culture, technology, platforms, and evolving audience behavior, paired with the judgment to separate signal from novelty.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted writing and research tools to expand exploration and speed iteration, with disciplined editorial judgment and responsible-use practices.
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, presentation, prioritization, and leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid flexibility - RP3 is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, so if you are DMV-based, that is definitely a bonus — but not a barrier. If you can get here by train, plane, or automobile, you are in the running. We want the right person, wherever they are.
  • A culture built on curiosity, kindness, accountability, and wildly original thinking
  • Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
  • Employee-paid dental and vision plans
  • 401(k) with immediate employer match
  • Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
  • Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
  • Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
  • Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance
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RP3 Agency

Our proudly independent, full-service creative agency brings inspired ideas to life for our clients, connecting their brands with consumers through honest insight and trust. We deliver work that influences beliefs, alters behaviors, spurs action, and achieves measurable business goals and outcomes. Founded in 2009 by Beth Johnson, RP3 is a certified, woman-owned small business based in Bethesda, MD. Our versatile and forward-thinking team helps clients succeed in a rapidly changing environment. We are a collaborative and results-oriented company, delivering thoughtful, insight-driven creative that drives engagement and growth.

Founded in 2009
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
38 employees (14 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.8%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.2%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~38

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (18% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
5.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3