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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 AI to expand what’s creatively possible.\nRole Overview\nAs a Creative Director at Thesis, you’ll establish the creative vision for the clients, teams, and opportunities you lead. You’ll turn business and audience challenges into ideas worth pursuing, build belief around those ideas, and lead multidisciplinary teams to make them real. You’re a thinker and a maker with strong taste, strategic instincts, and the ability to move between ideas and execution. You know when to get into the work and when to create space for others to lead. You’ll be accountable for the idea, the people, the client relationship, and the creative outcome, while managing, mentoring, and developing the next generation of creative leaders.\nKey Responsibilities\nCreative Vision & Ideas\nEstablish the creative vision for assigned clients, accounts, and opportunities.\n\nTurn business, audience, and cultural insights into strong ideas and creative opportunities.\n\nLead concept development and ensure ideas maintain their integrity as they scale across channels, experiences, and content.\n\nStrategic Thinking\nPartner with Strategy and clients to define the problem and opportunity before defining the deliverable.\n\nConnect creative decisions to audience needs, brand ambition, culture, and business objectives.\n\nLook beyond the immediate ask to identify opportunities for greater client and creative impact.\n\nCreative & People Leadership\nLead multidisciplinary teams across design, writing, motion, experience, content, and emerging disciplines.\n\nSet a high creative standard while staying close enough to the work to meaningfully shape and elevate it.\n\nManage, mentor, and develop creative talent and emerging leaders through clear expectations, feedback, and meaningful opportunities for growth.\n\nBuild teams that can increasingly operate with ownership and autonomy.\n\nClient Leadership & Storytelling\nServe as a trusted creative partner to senior clients.\n\nBuild belief in ideas through clear, compelling storytelling and presentations.\n\nNavigate feedback and business constraints while protecting the creative ambition.\n\nBuild relationships that expand Thesis’s creative influence and uncover new opportunities.\n\nAI, Technology & Making\nUse AI and emerging technology to expand exploration, prototype ideas, accelerate learning, and increase the leverage of teams.\n\nPartner with Technology and Production to explore new ways of making and bringing ideas to life.\n\nUse technology to scale strong ideas without replacing human judgment, originality, and taste.\n\nProcess & Delivery\nOwn the creative outcome from opportunity through execution.\n\nBuild the smallest, strongest team capable of solving the problem.\n\nPartner across Strategy, Technology, Client Leadership, Production, and Operations to reduce handoffs and create clear ownership.\n\nBalance creative ambition with scope, timing, resources, and business realities.\n\nGrowth & New Business\nIdentify opportunities to grow existing client relationships through creativity, strategy, and technology.\n\nPlay a leadership role in new business, from opportunity framing and concept development through pitching.\n\nBring proactive ideas and provocations to clients before they’re requested.\n\nWho You Are\nA multidisciplinary creative leader with experience leading significant creative work, teams, and client relationships.\n\nAn ideas person, thinker, and maker who can move between strategy, creative direction, and execution.\n\nA creative with exceptional taste and judgment across disciplines.\n\nA leader who knows how to manage, mentor, and grow creative talent.\n\nA compelling storyteller who can build belief with clients, teams, and senior stakeholders.\n\nComfortable with ambiguity, direct client relationships, and the pace of agency work.\n\nCurious and experimental with AI, technology, and new ways of making.\n\nCollaborative, accountable, low ego, and capable of making the people around you better.\n\nRelationships\nReports to:Chief Creative Officer\n\nDirect Reports & Teams:Lead multidisciplinary teams across design, writing, motion, experience, content, and emerging disciplines; manage, mentor, and develop creative talent and emerging leaders.\n\nInternal Cross-Functional Partners:Partner across Strategy, Technology, Client Leadership, Production, and Operations.\n\nExternal Partners:Serve as a trusted creative partner to senior clients.\n\nWork Environment and Physical Demands\nThe following capabilities are required in order to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable 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\nMinimal travel is anticipated 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.\nWe 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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