Executive Creative Director

Job Description

Job Description

Executive Creative Director

About the Role

We are seeking an Executive Creative Director of Creative who’s not just a creative leader—but a builder, doer, and relentless ideator. This is a high-impact role for a proven creative who thrives on pushing boundaries to deliver creative innovation.

You will report directly to our Chief Creative & Innovation Officer, supporting their vision and executing bold, award-worthy creative work across the agency. The CCIO sets the creative agenda—you help bring it to life with precision and originality.

You should be a self-starter with a strong creative point of view, who’s ready to step outside their comfort zone, embrace innovation, and lead multidisciplinary teams across traditional, digital, and experiential platforms. Your ideas must be mediable, data-informed, and culturally relevant—work that not only wins hearts but earns headlines and hardware.

What You’ll Do

• Partner closely with the CCIO to turn the CCIO’s high-level vision into tangible, cross-platform, and best-in-class campaigns across all accounts.
• Lead, manage and inspire the creative department as a champion of innovation and experimentation, challenging the team to think beyond convention and deliver unexpected, meaningful solutions.
• Build, develop and retain top-tier creative talent, and foster a culture of growth, curiosity, collaboration and excellence.
• Manage ideation and oversee execution across advertising, digital, social, and experiential—ensuring work meets the highest standards of creativity, craft, and impact.
• Be a hands-on leader—someone who generates ideas, shapes the work, and knows how to take it to execution.
• Integrate the latest and greatest AI-powered creative tools (e.g., Sora, ChatGPT, Runway) to enhance ideation, speed, and presentation.
• Help pitch, present, and sell through game-changing ideas to senior-level clients and stakeholders.
• Establish confidence and credibility with clients, aiming to become the “best creative director” on the client roster.

Who You Are

Skills & Requirements

What Success Looks Like

To thrive in this role, you’ll need to quickly translate vision into action, build trust with the CCIO, and set the creative bar high for the agency. Below is a roadmap of what success looks like—first in the short term, and then as a long-term creative force within the agency.

First 6 Months

Demonstrate Impact in the Work

Collaborate with the CCIO

Elevate the Work, Everywhere

Beyond 6 Months

Consistent Impact

Be the CCIO’s Creative Right Hand

What We Offer

Equal Employment Opportunity

IW Group is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. IW Group provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state, or federal law.