Associate Creative Director

Active Theory

Associate Creative Director leading client accounts and creative direction at Active Theory. Championing values and fostering innovative design culture within the team.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take creative ownership of core client accounts, ensuring quality and clarity.
Set creative direction across projects from concept to execution.
Be accountable for overall creative health, not just individual deliverables.
Collaborate with production and tech to shape feasible approaches.
Serve as a creative lead on pitches, articulating the company's unique perspective.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Associate Creative Director (ACD) role marks transition from senior individual contribution into holistic creative leadership.
High level of trust, ownership, and influence—both within internal teams and across global client accounts.
Remain a practitioner at heart, staying deeply involved in the craft while taking command of creative direction, high-stakes client stewardship, and team mentorship.
Creative ownership of one or more core client accounts, ensuring consistency, quality, and clarity across engagements.
Set and maintain creative direction across projects — from early concept through execution.
Be accountable for overall creative health of the work, not just individual deliverables.
Be practiced in core creative competency – intimately familiar with creative execution at the highest level.
Hands-on with conceptual and delivery phases of the creative process as needed.
Understand possibilities and limitations within 2D/3D motion design.
Act as a creative point of continuity for assigned client accounts.
Build trust through taste, follow-through, and thoughtful decision-making.
Collaborate closely with Production and Tech to shape approaches that balance ambition, feasibility, and craft.
Step into a creative lead role on pitches and new client opportunities articulating unique perspective.
Help shape concepts, narratives, and presentations that reflect Active Theory’s point of view.
Act as a primary ambassador for Active Theory starting to build a public-facing leadership profile (e.g., through industry events or thought leadership).
Lead by example through craft, communication, and collaboration.
Demonstrate being AI native and generally interested in AI.
Provide direction and feedback that helps elevate designers and strengthen the work.
Contribute to creative standards, systems, and ways of working that scale across the studio.
Foster a design culture and support in department process and initiatives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Media Active Theory is a creative digital studio that designs and builds immersive, interactive web and XR experiences for brands and agencies. They combine design, creative coding, and front-end engineering (WebGL, three. js, interactive animation) to produce high-impact websites, installations, and AR/VR projects that prioritize visual storytelling and user engagement. Their work is focused on experiential digital media and interactive content. Associate Creative Director Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 5 minutes ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🧑‍🎨 Art Director Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Take creative ownership of core client accounts, ensuring quality and clarity.
Set creative direction across projects from concept to execution.
Be accountable for overall creative health, not just individual deliverables.
Collaborate with production and tech to shape feasible approaches.
Serve as a creative lead on pitches, articulating the company's unique perspective. 🎯 Requirements
Associate Creative Director (ACD) role marks transition from senior individual contribution into holistic creative leadership.
High level of trust, ownership, and influence—both within internal teams and across global client accounts.
Remain a practitioner at heart, staying deeply involved in the craft while taking command of creative direction, high-stakes client stewardship, and team mentorship.
Creative ownership of one or more core client accounts, ensuring consistency, quality, and clarity across engagements.
Set and maintain creative direction across projects — from early concept through execution.
Be accountable for overall creative health of the work, not just individual deliverables.
Be practiced in core creative competency – intimately familiar with creative execution at the highest level.
Hands-on with conceptual and delivery phases of the creative process as needed.
Understand possibilities and limitations within 2D/3D motion design.
Act as a creative point of continuity for assigned client accounts.
Build trust through taste, follow-through, and thoughtful decision-making.
Collaborate closely with Production and Tech to shape approaches that balance ambition, feasibility, and craft.
Step into a creative lead role on pitches and new client opportunities articulating unique perspective.
Help shape concepts, narratives, and presentations that reflect Active Theory’s point of view.
Act as a primary ambassador for Active Theory starting to build a public-facing leadership profile (e.g., through industry events or thought leadership).
Lead by example through craft, communication, and collaboration.
Demonstrate being AI native and generally interested in AI.
Provide direction and feedback that helps elevate designers and strengthen the work.
Contribute to creative standards, systems, and ways of working that scale across the studio.
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Hard Skills & Tools

2D motion design3D motion designcreative executionconcept developmentpresentation skillsnarrative developmentdesign standardscreative directionclient stewardshipteam mentorship

Soft Skills

creative ownershipcollaborationcommunicationtrust buildingdecision-makingleadershipcraftsmanshipthoughtful feedbackambition balancingdesign culture fostering