Director, Creative (Copy/Art)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$144K/yr – $210K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the creative vision across multidisciplinary teams, build brand voice systems, and drive performance through data-informed campaigns while managing a global team and ensuring end-to-end quality.

  • Lead creation and governance of brand voice and editorial standards
  • Oversee concurrent workstreams from brand to product launches

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish the vision for multidisciplinary teams (Copy, Art, Content, Design) and ensure a cohesive, high-bar output across every workstream on the account.
  • Own the brand voice system: messaging architecture, editorial standards, and the writing guidelines that keep output consistent across teams, markets, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Lead the strategy and execution of performance-driven campaigns, using data-backed insights to inform bold, creative risks that drive ROI.
  • Run concurrent workstreams across brand, always-on, product launch, and lifecycle, holding one strategic through-line and one art direction standard across all of them.
  • Partner with Strategy, Media, and Analytics to connect creative decisions to performance, and bring results back into the next round of work.
  • Build and implement scalable creative systems and workflows that allow the team to move faster and smarter without sacrificing quality.
  • Establish frameworks for creative review, copy QA, and cross-functional handoff that hold quality steady as volume increases.
  • Lead high-value pitches and flagship brand work, acting as the primary creative consultant for C-suite clients.
  • Manage a team of writers and art directors directly, coaching their craft, strategic thinking, and career growth.
  • Take ownership of end-to-end creative quality and execution, stepping into a hands-on capacity as required by the project scale and complexity, and acting as the final creative authority on key deliverables.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in copywriting, brand storytelling, or integrated campaign development, including leadership experience in multidisciplinary teams.
  • 2+ years of experience managing, mentoring, and building copy and creative teams.
  • Experience leading a global account, with the operating habits that come with multiple markets, regional stakeholders, and simultaneous workstreams.
  • A body of work showcasing conceptual range and writing craft on large-scale, multi-channel advertising campaigns.
  • Proven experience building brand voice systems, messaging architectures, and editorial standards from scratch.
  • Deep experience building performance, creative, and social media campaigns that successfully marry brand aesthetics with hard-hitting metrics.
  • A strong eye for art direction, typography, and layout; you can brief, critique, and sign off on visual work with the same authority you bring to copy.
  • A knack for building scalable solutions; the process you put in place still solves the problem after you hand it off.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted creative workflows and a clear point of view on where they belong in the process.
  • The ability to balance creative excellence with business performance, ensuring our work moves the needle for our clients’ bottom lines.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
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DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

Founded in 2016
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4.5K employees (1,449 in marketing)
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$144K/yr – $210K/yr

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Director, Creative (Copy/Art)

DEPT® · New York City, NY · Remote