Executive Creative Director

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Executive Creative Director based in United States.

Lead the creative vision and growth strategy for an ambitious, internationally focused digital creative practice.

This outward-facing role combines executive creative leadership with new business development, client relationships, and storytelling.

You’ll shape bold concepts for high-level US brands and guide large-scale interactive experiences from pitch through launch.

Working alongside an experienced production and development organization, you’ll turn ambitious ideas into technically sophisticated experiences.

You’ll be a natural presenter and relationship-builder, inspiring senior stakeholders to embrace creative risks and new possibilities.

The role also offers the opportunity to mentor emerging creative leaders and strengthen the broader creative culture.

Success means elevating the creative profile of the organization while building a strong pipeline of high-value US client relationships.

Accountabilities:

• Partner with senior leadership to shape and evolve the creative vision, market positioning, and overall creative direction.
• Maintain a high standard of creative quality across pitches, projects, and client deliverables.
• Lead assigned projects as Executive Creative Director, establishing the vision from initial concept and pitch through key milestones and launch.
• Own the overarching creative vision, narrative, and strategic direction, ensuring work is visually compelling, conceptually rigorous, and technically sound.
• Lead creative discovery, ideation, initial design direction, critiques, and creative reviews across projects.
• Provide hands-on creative contribution when needed, particularly during critical pitch phases, including design, motion, or visual systems.
• Present creative concepts and strategic rationale with clarity, confidence, and charisma to senior client stakeholders.
• Build trusted, long-term client relationships through strong creative leadership, business understanding, and relationship management.
• Lead pitches, concept presentations, and creative strategy conversations to help win high-level US accounts.
• Collaborate closely with production, development, and account leadership to balance creative ambition with scope, timelines, and budgets.
• Provide mentorship and craft-focused feedback to creative team members, supporting their professional and leadership development.
• Participate in hiring through portfolio reviews, interviews, and role definition.
• Inspire and align the North American creative team around ambitious standards and continued growth.
• Represent the creative practice externally through speaking engagements, industry events, talks, and thought leadership.
• Contribute to experimentation, internal creative initiatives, and the continued evolution of design culture.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in digital design or creative production, ideally within a creative/digital agency, independent studio, or consulting environment.
• Proven track record leading large-scale, highly interactive digital projects from concept through launch.
• Exceptional conceptual thinking combined with strong visual and design craft.
• Strong design sensibility and the ability to provide clear creative direction across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with modern design tools such as Figma, with sufficient tactical agility to contribute directly when required.
• Understanding of real-world/IRL brand experiences, their value to clients, and how they integrate into broader marketing ecosystems.
• Excellent presentation, communication, storytelling, and pitching abilities, with a demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and win new business.
• Strong commercial and relationship-building skills, particularly within the US market.
• Ability to lead teams with clarity, empathy, confidence, and a growth-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable balancing ambitious creative ideas with practical considerations around scope, timelines, budgets, and technical feasibility.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong desire to build relationships, identify opportunities, and contribute to business growth.
• Availability to work remotely across the Americas, with a preference for candidates aligned with West Coast hours; East Coast candidates should be able to accommodate West Coast working hours when needed and travel as required.

Benefits:

• Fully remote position across the Americas.
• Opportunity to work on ambitious, high-profile digital and interactive experiences.
• Significant influence over creative vision, market positioning, and new business growth.
• Collaboration with experienced creative, production, and development leaders.
• Opportunity to build long-term relationships with leading US brands and senior client stakeholders.
• Platform to develop emerging creative leaders through mentorship and hands-on leadership.
• Opportunities for public speaking, industry events, talks, and external thought leadership.
• High degree of creative ownership and opportunity to shape the next stage of a growing creative practice.