Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction, quality, and vision of a significant portfolio of clients, integrated campaigns, and multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Develop breakthrough integrated campaigns that translate strategy, audience insight, behavioral understanding, and cultural context into ideas that connect with people and create measurable impact.
• Lead creative development from brief through production, ensuring every execution reflects the strength of the original idea and the highest standards of craft.
• Build, mentor, and inspire Creative Directors, Associate Creative Directors, writers, art directors, designers, and other creative specialists, creating an environment where ambitious ideas and exceptional people can thrive.
• Partner closely with strategy, research, behavioral science, media, production, communications, experience design, and technology teams to deliver seamless integrated campaigns across every channel.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, confidently presenting ambitious creative thinking and guiding complex decision-making while protecting the integrity of the work.
• Lead major productions across film, photography, digital, social, experiential, and emerging platforms, ensuring creative excellence from concept to final delivery.
• Play a significant leadership role in new business, pitches, and agency growth by helping shape winning strategies, creative platforms, and client relationships.
• Champion creative excellence while ensuring work meets the highest standards of accessibility, inclusivity, clarity, effectiveness, and measurable performance.
• Help shape the creative culture, standards, capabilities, and long-term reputation of ICF Next.

Requirements

• 15+ years of agency or equivalent creative experience, including deep experience leading integrated campaigns and multidisciplinary creative teams.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating original conceptual thinking, creative leadership, and a consistent ability to produce strategically smart, beautifully crafted work that delivers measurable results.
• A proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing creative teams while establishing a clear creative vision across a significant portfolio of work.
• Extensive experience developing integrated campaigns across video, digital, social, experiential, print, out-of-home, web, emerging platforms, and connected customer experiences.
• Exceptional creative judgment and the ability to recognize, shape, challenge, and protect powerful ideas from concept through execution.
• Deep understanding of how strategy, audience insight, behavioral science, storytelling, design, technology, and craft come together to create work that moves people.
• Experience translating complex, technical, scientific, regulated, or sensitive subject matter into compelling creative communications that people genuinely engage with.
• Confidence presenting ambitious creative thinking to senior executives, clients, and diverse stakeholder groups while building trust and creative momentum.
• Experience developing campaigns addressing public health, public safety, education, energy, environmental sustainability, climate, or other complex mission-driven challenges is highly valued. Public-sector experience is welcome but not required.
• Industry recognition is valued, but what matters most is a body of work that demonstrates originality, exceptional craft, strategic thinking, and measurable impact.

Preferred

• Public-sector experience is welcome but not required.