Creative Director

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $180K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the creative outcome from opportunity through execution by leading cross-disciplinary teams, shaping ideas across channels, and partnering with Strategy and clients to define the problem and opportunities. Drive storytelling, leverage AI and emerging tech to prototype and scale ideas, and build autonomous, high-performing teams while balancing creative ambition with business realities.

  • Define and own the creative strategy and delivery across accounts and experiences.
  • Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, raising the creative standard and impact.
  • Collaborate across Strategy, Technology, Production, and Client Leadership to reduce handoffs and accelerate impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish the creative vision for assigned clients, accounts, and opportunities.
  • Turn business, audience, and cultural insights into strong ideas and creative opportunities.
  • Lead concept development and ensure ideas maintain their integrity as they scale across channels, experiences, and content.
  • Partner with Strategy and clients to define the problem and opportunity before defining the deliverable.
  • Connect creative decisions to audience needs, brand ambition, culture, and business objectives.
  • Look beyond the immediate ask to identify opportunities for greater client and creative impact.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams across design, writing, motion, experience, content, and emerging disciplines.
  • Set a high creative standard while staying close enough to the work to meaningfully shape and elevate it.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop creative talent and emerging leaders through clear expectations, feedback, and meaningful opportunities for growth.
  • Build teams that can increasingly operate with ownership and autonomy.

Requirements

  • A multidisciplinary creative leader with experience leading significant creative work, teams, and client relationships.
  • An ideas person, thinker, and maker who can move between strategy, creative direction, and execution.
  • A creative with exceptional taste and judgment across disciplines.
  • A leader who knows how to manage, mentor, and grow creative talent.
  • A compelling storyteller who can build belief with clients, teams, and senior stakeholders.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, direct client relationships, and the pace of agency work.
  • Curious and experimental with AI, technology, and new ways of making.
  • Collaborative, accountable, low ego, and capable of making the people around you better.
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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

$140K/yr – $180K/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 2,627 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)
1

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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Creative Director

Thesis · Portland, OR · Hybrid