Associate Creative Director
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Job Summary (List Format): Creative Associate Director Grant Thornton
- Strategic Creative Leadership: Serve as a senior leader overseeing creative execution across integrated campaigns, brand expression, sales, events, motion, and creative enablement for a global professional services firm.
- Creative Vision & Direction: Set the creative vision, standards, and success criteria while acting as the primary decision-maker for creative direction and quality within assigned initiatives.
- Governance & Quality Assurance: Establish and maintain creative governance models to ensure consistency, quality, and alignment across regions, channels, and distributed teams.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead and coach on-shore and off-shore creative teams, providing direction, fostering collaboration, and supporting succession planning and capability growth.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate closely with Corporate Brand leaders and business stakeholders to align creative priorities, shape demand, and ensure initiatives are strategic and impactful.
- Campaign Oversight: Guide the development of integrated campaigns, review creative work for effectiveness, and ensure alignment with brand, accessibility, and quality standards.
- Creative Operations: Oversee the entire creative lifecycle from intake to delivery, including optimization, reuse, and vendor/agency management for scalable and efficient operations.
- Innovation & Enablement: Drive adoption of new tools, AI-enabled processes, and scalable creative systems to support global consistency and operational improvements.
- Change Management: Lead teams through process, workflow, and technology changes to enhance creative quality and efficiency.
- Qualifications: Minimum 6+ years' experience as a Creative or Associate Creative Director, experience with large corporate or agency environments, expertise with regulated industries (financial services, pharma, healthcare), and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint, and project management tools (Clickup, Asana).
- Channels & Media Expertise: Hands-on experience with modern marketing channels including social media, TV, Out of Home, web, and paid advertising.
- Remote Role: 100% remote (ideal if based in East Coast or Central time zones); contract position with possibility for extension or full-time conversion.
- Strategic Creative Leadership: Serve as a senior leader overseeing creative execution across integrated campaigns, brand expression, sales, events, motion, and creative enablement for a global professional services firm.
- Creative Vision & Direction: Set the creative vision, standards, and success criteria while acting as the primary decision-maker for creative direction and quality within assigned initiatives.
- Governance & Quality Assurance: Establish and maintain creative governance models to ensure consistency, quality, and alignment across regions, channels, and distributed teams.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead and coach on-shore and off-shore creative teams, providing direction, fostering collaboration, and supporting succession planning and capability growth.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate closely with Corporate Brand leaders and business stakeholders to align creative priorities, shape demand, and ensure initiatives are strategic and impactful.
- Campaign Oversight: Guide the development of integrated campaigns, review creative work for effectiveness, and ensure alignment with brand, accessibility, and quality standards.
- Creative Operations: Oversee the entire creative lifecycle from intake to delivery, including optimization, reuse, and vendor/agency management for scalable and efficient operations.
- Innovation & Enablement: Drive adoption of new tools, AI-enabled processes, and scalable creative systems to support global consistency and operational improvements.
- Change Management: Lead teams through process, workflow, and technology changes to enhance creative quality and efficiency.
- Qualifications: Minimum 6+ years' experience as a Creative or Associate Creative Director, experience with large corporate or agency environments, expertise with regulated industries (financial services, pharma, healthcare), and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint, and project management tools (Clickup, Asana).
- Channels & Media Expertise: Hands-on experience with modern marketing channels including social media, TV, Out of Home, web, and paid advertising.
- Remote Role: 100% remote (ideal if based in East Coast or Central time zones); contract position with possibility for extension or full-time conversion.
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