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You’ll lead from the idea outward: shaping the concept, pushing the craft, inspiring multidisciplinary teams, and building the kind of client trust that allows great work to happen.\nWe’re looking for an exceptional conceptual thinker and brand leader-a creative generalist with high taste, strong creative conviction, and the presence to bring both teams and senior clients along with a vision. Your foundation is in brand and conceptual creative, but your range extends beyond any one discipline. You’re equally energized by building a brand from the ground up, evolving an identity system, shaping a digital experience, or finding the big idea that connects them all.\nDepending on the needs of the work, this role may span multiple accounts or focus deeply on a single client partnership. In either case, you’ll have the opportunity to build meaningful client relationships, develop a deep understanding of their business, and shape the creative vision across a range of challenges.\nWhat You'll Do\nSet and champion the creative vision across projects, developing big ideas that are strategically grounded, distinctive, and built to extend across different types of work.\nLead creative across brand, identity and design systems, web, and digital experiences, creating a strong through-line from concept through execution.\nMaintain an exceptional bar for craft and originality, pushing the work and helping multidisciplinary teams deliver at their highest level.\nServe as a senior creative partner to clients, confidently presenting and selling ideas, navigating feedback and ambiguity, and building trust with senior stakeholders.\nLead and inspire multidisciplinary teams, bringing designers, writers, strategists, technologists, and producers together around a shared creative vision.\nBalance multiple projects and creative workstreams while maintaining consistency, momentum, and quality.\nContribute to new business and account growth by shaping creative approaches, identifying opportunities, and helping turn ambitious ideas into compelling pitches and expanded partnerships.\nWhat You'll Bring\nSignificant experience leading creative at an agency, studio, or similarly multidisciplinary environment, with demonstrated ownership of the creative vision from concept through execution.\nAn exceptional portfolio demonstrating big conceptual thinking, brand and identity work, and a consistently high bar for visual craft.\nDeep expertise in brand and conceptual creative, paired with credible experience leading websites and other digital experiences.\nThe ability to develop and recognize powerful ideas and evolve them into cohesive creative systems and experiences.\nStrong creative judgment and the ability to push teams beyond the expected while giving clear, actionable direction.\nExperience leading multidisciplinary creative teams and bringing different disciplines together around a shared vision.\nA strong track record of presenting and selling creative work to senior clients, navigating complex conversations, and building lasting client trust.\nExperience balancing and directing multiple creative workstreams without losing sight of the larger idea or quality of execution.\nComfort working with ambiguity and adapting your approach as the creative challenge, client, or medium changes.\nA collaborative leadership style grounded in curiosity, clarity, high standards, and a genuine investment in helping others do their best work.\nPay Range\nThe expected pay range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000. 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