[Hiring] Creative Director @Dept

Role Description

As a Director, Creative, you own the verbal and visual direction for one of our largest global accounts. The role sits at the intersection of brand storytelling and performance marketing, and it asks for a leader who can hold one voice and one standard of art direction across every workstream while the work ships at volume, in multiple markets, on a constant cycle.

• Establish the vision for multidisciplinary teams (Copy, Art, Content, Design) and ensure a cohesive, high-bar output across every workstream on the account.
• Own the brand voice system: messaging architecture, editorial standards, and the writing guidelines that keep output consistent across teams, markets, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead the strategy and execution of performance-driven campaigns, using data-backed insights to inform bold, creative risks that drive ROI.
• Run concurrent workstreams across brand, always-on, product launch, and lifecycle, holding one strategic through-line and one art direction standard across all of them.
• Partner with Strategy, Media, and Analytics to connect creative decisions to performance, and bring results back into the next round of work.
• Build and implement scalable creative systems and workflows that allow the team to move faster and smarter without sacrificing quality.
• Establish frameworks for creative review, copy QA, and cross-functional handoff that hold quality steady as volume increases.
• Lead high-value pitches and flagship brand work, acting as the primary creative consultant for C-suite clients.
• Manage a team of writers and art directors directly, coaching their craft, strategic thinking, and career growth.
• Take ownership of end-to-end creative quality and execution, stepping into a hands-on capacity as required by the project scale and complexity, and acting as the final creative authority on key deliverables.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and skill gaps to keep the creative team future-ready.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in copywriting, brand storytelling, or integrated campaign development, including leadership experience in multidisciplinary teams.
• 2+ years of experience managing, mentoring, and building copy and creative teams.
• Experience leading a global account, with the operating habits that come with multiple markets, regional stakeholders, and simultaneous workstreams.
• A body of work showcasing conceptual range and writing craft on large-scale, multi-channel advertising campaigns.
• Proven experience building brand voice systems, messaging architectures, and editorial standards from scratch.
• Deep experience building performance, creative, and social media campaigns that successfully marry brand aesthetics with hard-hitting metrics.
• A strong eye for art direction, typography, and layout; you can brief, critique, and sign off on visual work with the same authority you bring to copy.
• A knack for building scalable solutions; the process you put in place still solves the problem after you hand it off.
• Fluency with AI-assisted creative workflows and a clear point of view on where they belong in the process.
• The ability to balance creative excellence with business performance, ensuring our work moves the needle for our clients’ bottom lines.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present complex ideas professionally and effectively to all levels of stakeholders.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k plan, plus matching
• PTO
• Paid Company Holidays
• Parental Leave

Company Description

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI.