Associate Creative Director
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Vice President, Executive Creative Director
West Cary Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own and lead the creative vision and output for the dedicated account across all platforms and campaigns.
- Collaborate with senior client executives to develop strategic, innovative creative solutions that drive business growth.
- Ensure the creative output consistently reflects exceptional quality, creative strategy and innovation by actively participating in the creative direction and craft of the work.
- Act as a creative partner for the client’s senior leadership, fostering trust and collaboration.
- Identify organic growth opportunities and drive initiatives that expand the agency’s scope of work with the client.
- Partner with account team leads to align creative with client intent and measurable performance.
- Represent the agency in client presentations and business reviews as a creative face of the account.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a dedicated creative team of Group and Senior Creative Directors, Associate Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, and Designers.
- Act as a ‘coach/player’ when needed, and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the team.
- Oversee resource planning, budgets, and timelines to ensure efficient, profitable operations without compromising creative quality.
- Support recruitment, retention, and growth of top creative talent, ensuring the team evolves to meet the client’s needs.
- Contribute insights and learnings from the flagship account to agency-wide innovation and thought leadership initiatives.
- Partner with West Cary Group leadership and actively participate in agency initiatives and leadership meetings to positively impact the organization, its people, processes, and creative direction, driving operational excellence beyond the account.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in creative roles, with 7–10 years leading large creative teams on high-profile, complex accounts.
- Proven experience managing flagship accounts with multi-million-dollar budgets and multi-channel campaigns.
- Strong conceptual thinker with deep knowledge of digital, social, experiential, and traditional media.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with executive level clients and act as a strategic partner.
- Expertise in driving creative innovation and identifying opportunities for growth within an account.
- Exceptional leadership skills with a passion for mentoring senior creative talent and developing high-performing teams.
- High-level business acumen with the ability to align creative vision to business objectives.
- Consistently demonstrates the invaluable leadership characteristics, such as sound judgment, the ability to positively influence team members and clients, and the innate sense of purpose and drive to enhance West Cary Group holistically
Benefits
- WFH Flexible 📊 Resume Score Upload your resume to see if it passes auto-rejection tools used by recruiters Check Resume Score
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Hard skills
creative strategymulti-channel campaignsdigital mediasocial mediaexperiential mediatraditional mediabudget managementresource planningperformance measurementcreative innovation
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingcollaborationtrust buildinginfluenceaccountabilityinnovationbusiness acumen
