Executive Creative Director

Responsibilities

• Owns creative quality end-to-end across all client accounts: reviewing work in flight before it ships, closing the feedback loop to writers directly, and maintaining a consistent standard across host-read and pre-produced disciplines
• Owns how Audiolytics is used across the department: as a benchmark and coaching tool integrated with compliance and performance data, not as a checkbox exercise
• Owns the talent onboarding, briefing, and feedback process: ensuring every host receives a clear creative jumping-off point, product familiarity, and structured ongoing feedback that improves their reads over time
• Owns the connection between creative output and market performance: working with Analytics and account teams to establish performance baselines and translate results into creative direction
• Owns a test-and-learn culture in partnership with Analytics: bringing creative hypotheses, making testing a standard part of how briefs are written, and ensuring what the team learns shapes the next round of work
• Owns the full creative team: leading and developing writers across Bespoke and Format tiers and producers across host-read and pre-produced disciplines
• Owns key client and talent relationships at the senior creative level: these relationships stay direct, not delegated
• Owns the department's presence in new business pitches: concept development, pitch decks, and demo work, including a repeatable three-ways-in approach (functional, emotional, and host-story angles)
• Owns creative support for bespoke, creator-first partnerships and 360-degree campaigns

Requirements

• 10 or more years of experience in creative leadership, with a track record of owning creative quality across multiple accounts or productions simultaneously
• Deep fluency in audio advertising: host-read, pre-produced, and bespoke formats; candidates with strong audio or podcast creative backgrounds are strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to connect creative decisions to measurable performance outcomes; comfort working with data, analytics teams, and test-and-learn frameworks as inputs to creative direction
• Experience leading and developing creative teams across writing and production disciplines; a coach and standard-setter, not just a practitioner
• Strong point of view on what makes audio creative work: clarity of message, authenticity of voice, structure that converts; able to articulate and transfer that standard to a team
• Experience owning or contributing to new business pitches: concept development, creative presentation, and demo work in high-stakes settings
• Comfort working directly with talent: onboarding hosts, providing structured feedback, and maintaining creative relationships at the senior level
• A bias toward ownership: someone who runs toward gaps, raises the standard without being asked, and holds the quality bar even under deadline pressure
• Not a hands-on copywriting role for every account. The ECD sets the standard, resources the team, and steps in personally on the highest-stakes work. Writing every script is not the job.
• Not a testing infrastructure role. Analytics owns test design, statistical analysis, tracking, and reporting mechanics. This role owns what gets tested, why, and what the team does with the results.