Own the agency's creative direction across concept development, visual worlds, talent development, and client leadership, guiding campaigns from brief to production and shaping client trust and ongoing growth.

Lead concept-first creative across multiple clients and industries.
Mentor and unite multidisciplinary teams to translate insights into campaigns.
Present and defend work with strategic rationale to senior stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Lead Concept-First Creative
Lead integrated concept development across multiple clients, industries, and business challenges.
Partner with copywriters and multidisciplinary teams to translate a sharp human insight into a clear, ownable campaign platform.
Guide teams through divergent thinking, selection, refinement, and execution—pushing beyond the first expected answer.
Ensure every visual choice serves the central idea and every execution connects back to the strategy.
Contribute original thinking to pitches, organic growth opportunities, agency initiatives, and thought leadership.
Shape Visual Worlds and Craft
Define distinctive visual directions across composition, typography, image-making, motion, interaction, and experience.
Create and direct moodboards, styleframes, storyboards, comps, and prototypes that make ideas tangible and help teams and clients see the possibility.
Maintain a coherent brand world as work adapts across social, digital, video, print, experiential, and emerging channels.

Requirements

- A portfolio demonstrating breakthrough conceptual thinking, distinctive visual worlds, exceptional art direction and design craft, and leadership across integrated campaigns.
- 8–12 years of agency or integrated marketing experience, including meaningful team and client leadership responsibility.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary creative teams and guide campaigns from brief through production.
- Deep expertise in art direction, design systems, typography, image-making, motion, and visual storytelling—paired with strong copy and narrative judgment.
- Experience presenting and selling creative work to senior clients and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success mentoring creative talent and raising the quality of a team—not only individual assignments.
- Strong understanding of how strategy, craft, channels, production, and measurement work together to create business and brand impact.
- Curiosity about culture, technology, platforms, and evolving audience behavior, paired with the judgment to separate signal from novelty.
- Hands-on experience using generative image and emerging visual tools for comps and concept development, with sound judgment about consistency, feasibility, disclosure, licensing, and final-production quality.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, presentation, prioritization, and leadership skills.

Benefits

Hybrid flexibility - RP3 is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, so if you are DMV-based, that is definitely a bonus — but not a barrier. If you can get here by train, plane, or automobile, you are in the running. We want the right person, wherever they are.
A culture built on curiosity, kindness, accountability, and wildly original thinking
Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
Employee-paid dental and vision plans
401(k) with immediate employer match
Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance

RP3 Agency

Our proudly independent, full-service creative agency brings inspired ideas to life for our clients, connecting their brands with consumers through honest insight and trust. We deliver work that influences beliefs, alters behaviors, spurs action, and achieves measurable business goals and outcomes. Founded in 2009 by Beth Johnson, RP3 is a certified, woman-owned small business based in Bethesda, MD. Our versatile and forward-thinking team helps clients succeed in a rapidly changing environment. We are a collaborative and results-oriented company, delivering thoughtful, insight-driven creative that drives engagement and growth.

Founded in 2009

Bethesda, Maryland, USA

38 employees (14 in marketing)

rp3agency.com

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors

Traffic Source Mix

28.8%

Direct

46.7%

Referral

5.8%

Social

17.2%

Paid

1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~38

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size

7 (18% of company)

Median Career Experience

9 years

Median Tenure

5.4 years

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Marketing Leadership

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RP3 Agency

Traffic Signals

Headcount Trend

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Associate Creative Director Art

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Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

Job Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities

Requirements

Benefits

RP3 Agency

Traffic Signals

Headcount Trend

Marketing Team

People

Marketing Leadership

Recent News