Responsibilities

• Own the creative outcome across major earned creative assignments — from the initial brief through the idea, sell-in, development and execution.
• Set the creative vision and standard for the work, acting as a true north for teams and partners.
• Lead ideation and creative development, identifying the ideas with the potential to become culturally relevant, creatively exceptional and genuinely earned.
• Translate complex briefs, business challenges and senior stakeholder input into simple, compelling creative direction — or define the brief from scratch when one doesn’t exist.
• Read the tea leaves — understanding what clients, consumers and agency leadership need, often before they can articulate it themselves.
• Lead senior client conversations and serve as a trusted creative partner, bringing a distinct POV and the confidence to push when the work needs to go further.
• Know when to protect a great idea, when to evolve it and when to kill it.
• Push teams beyond the obvious execution and toward ideas that can earn attention, participation and conversation.
• Lead and mentor creative teams, including creative strategists, writers, designers, art directors.
• Create clarity in moments of ambiguity — defining the problem, the creative opportunity, the path forward and what \"great\" looks like.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing and leading creative work within an agency, brand or related creative environment.
• 4+ years of experience leading creative teams and major campaigns or integrated assignments.
• A strong portfolio of earned-first, culturally relevant and creatively ambitious work.
• Deep understanding of earned media and what makes an idea genuinely newsworthy, shareable and conversation-worthy.
• Exceptional conceptual and storytelling abilities, with the ability to move fluidly between the big idea and the details that make it work.
• A sharp creative point of view and demonstrable taste and cultural fluency.
• Proven ability to lead senior clients and confidently represent a creative POV in the room.
• A “good idea comes from anywhere” mentality.
• Equally comfortable as an individual contributor or a team lead.
• Ability to synthesize multiple perspectives and turn complex feedback into a clear, actionable creative direction.

Preferred

• Have experience building work for luxury, financial services or premium brands .
• Can move beyond writing and conceptual thinking into visual storytelling, filmmaking, design and art direction.
• Have a strong understanding of how brands can participate in culture without feeling like they're trying too hard to be part of it.
• Have a point of view on where earned creativity is going next — and the curiosity to keep figuring it out.
• Understanding of production or experience in launching fully integrated, social-first campaigns.
• Have award-winning work and/or a track record of work that has generated meaningful cultural attention.

Benefits

• Health Care (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Paid Time Off and Company Paid Holidays
• Summer Fridays
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• Paid Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits
• New Business Referral Bonus
• Employee Referral Bonus