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We partner with ambitious brands to solve complex business and marketing challenges and create ideas, experiences, and systems built to scale. We're evolving how we work to bring thinking and making closer together, build more accountable teams, and use technology and Al to expand what's creatively possible.\nRole Overview\nAs an Associate Creative Director at Thesis, you'll help shape the next chapter of our agency's growth. This isn't a traditional creative role-you'll be a foundational member of our Growth team, an entrepreneurial group responsible for identifying new opportunities, building relationships, developing breakthrough ideas, and winning business. You are a creative powerhouse, master craftsperson, and strategic thinker who moves effortlessly between big-picture visionary concepts and hands-on execution. You understand how to build brands, connect with audiences, and create work that is as effective as it is beautiful.\nYou'll work across B2C and B2B brands, developing everything from integrated campaigns and digital experiences to lifecycle marketing programs, CRM ecosystems, and compelling pitch concepts. You will establish and bring to life the creative vision for prospective clients, translating complex products and business challenges into clear, distinctive, emotionally resonant work that inspires action. Pairing impeccable taste and sharp instincts with a maker mindset, you balance breakthrough thinking with commercial realities, creating work that gets prospective clients excited about what's possible.\nKey Responsibilities\nCreative Vision & Pitch Craft\nLead the creative development of new business pitches, translating business challenges and audience insights into compelling creative platforms, concepts, and experiences.\n\nDevelop beautiful, strategically grounded creative across digital, social, CRM, lifecycle, brand, and integrated campaigns.\n\nBring fresh thinking to both B2C and B2B challenges, understanding how to create meaningful connections with consumers, customers, and business decision-makers.\n\nCreate standout pitch presentations, visual storytelling, campaign concepts, and prototypes that bring ideas to life and build belief with prospective clients.\n\nTranslate complex products, services, and business challenges into clear, distinctive, emotionally resonant creative.\n\nBusiness Impact & Connected Experiences\nPartner closely with strategy, lifecycle, performance, and technology teams to develop solutions that solve real business problems.\n\nConnect creative decisions to business impact, understanding how creative drives acquisition, engagement, conversion, retention, loyalty, and growth.\n\nBring deep fluency in digital customer journeys, CRM, personalization, and omnichannel experiences.\n\nBalance breakthrough thinking with commercial realities, ensuring ideas are ambitious, relevant, executable, and measurable.\n\nThink beyond individual campaigns to connected experiences that create lasting value for brands.\n\nCreative Leadership & Making\nHelp establish the creative standard, culture, and ambition of a growing team.\n\nMove fluidly between creative direction and hands-on design, concepting, and execution.\n\nCollaborate with multidisciplinary teams, external partners, and freelance talent to deliver exceptional work.\n\nPresent creative thinking confidently and persuasively to internal leadership, prospective clients, and senior stakeholders.\n\nContribute proactive ideas and concepts that strengthen Thesis's own positioning, marketing, and go-to-market efforts.\n\nAI, Technology & Emerging Tools\nChampion experimentation, emerging technologies, AI-enabled workflows, and new ways of working without compromising creative quality.\n\nUse AI and contemporary design tools to expand exploration, prototype concepts rapidly, and accelerate learning.\n\nPartner with multidisciplinary leads to explore modern ways of making and bringing pitch ideas to life.\n\nWho You Are\nA multidisciplinary creative with 6-8 years of experience in creative, design, or art direction, ideally within a digitally focused agency or dynamic environment.\n\nAn outstanding portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, original thinking, and design excellence across both B2C and B2B brands.\n\nDeep expertise in digital-first creative, with meaningful experience across integrated campaigns, lifecycle marketing, CRM, email, digital experiences, and social platforms.\n\nA strong foundation in art direction, typography, design systems, visual storytelling, and brand expression.\n\nA rare combination of visionary and maker who pairs strong creative judgment with the willingness to roll up your sleeves and build the work yourself.\n\nProven ability to turn a loose brief, blank page, or ambiguous business challenge into a compelling creative direction.\n\nA compelling storyteller who presents, defends, and evolves creative work persuasively in high-stakes pitches and client collaborations.\n\nFluent with contemporary design tools and curious and experimental with emerging AI-powered creative workflows.\n\nOptimistic, competitive, low-ego, collaborative, and driven to make the people around you sharper.\n\nRelationships\nReports to:Head of Accounts\n\nDirect Reports & Teams:Collaborates with and directs multidisciplinary project teams across design, copy, motion, and freelance creative talent on pitch and growth initiatives.\n\nInternal Cross-Functional Partners:Partners closely with Strategy, Lifecycle, Performance, Technology, and Client Leadership leads across new business and growth workstreams.\n\nExternal Partners:Prospective client leadership, external creative collaborators, production vendors, and freelance specialists.\n\nWork Environment and Physical Demands\nThe following capabilities are required in order to perform the essential functions of this position.\nReasonable accommodations that do not create an undue burden on the agency are available to address the following requirements:\nUsing standard office equipment, computers, and related technology.\n\nCertain activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding, and manipulating a computer mouse.\n\nBending, reaching, lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 25 pounds.\n\nThesis operates on a hybrid work model, with in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday and remote work on Mondays and Fridays.\n\nAs a proud B-Corp, Thesis prioritizes candidates based in the Portland Metro area to allow for a hybrid working set-up in our beautiful office in NW Portland.\n\nTravel up to 25% of the time is expected for this role.\n\nInclusion and Encouragement\nWe know that experience can show up in many ways, and we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications. If you're passionate about strategy, eager to grow, and excited to contribute your perspective, we'd love to hear from you.\nAt Thesis, we believe the best ideas come from bringing together diverse voices, experiences, and ways of thinking. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are not checkboxes-they are essential to how we work, collaborate, and create. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees can thrive and where every individual is treated with respect and dignity.\nThesis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. We provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. 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