Associate Creative Director
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Associate Creative Director leading creative workflows, resource coordination, and quality oversight. Supporting a growing creative organization in delivering high-quality work efficiently for U.S.-based clients.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day operations and execution of the creative function
- Translate approved creative strategies into clear execution plans
- Ensure creative work is delivered efficiently, consistently, and with high quality
- Maintain visibility across active projects, priorities, and deadlines
- Identify execution risks, blockers, and missing inputs before they affect delivery
- Own creative workflows, trafficking, assignments, schedules, and delivery processes
- Build and maintain systems that improve organization, accountability, and efficiency
- Coordinate creative projects from brief through final delivery
- Manage timelines and ensure deliverables are completed on schedule
- Develop repeatable and scalable processes that improve creative execution
- Partner with account and delivery teams to keep projects moving forward
- Own creative brief readiness and translate strategic direction into actionable guidance
- Review deliverables for brief alignment, quality, consistency, and executional excellence
- Provide first-pass creative reviews and actionable feedback
- Escalate strategic creative decisions or significant quality concerns
- Coordinate internal creative resources and external contractors
- Support resource planning, workload management, and creative prioritization
- Track resource utilization and effort against approved scope and estimates
- Flag scope creep, resource overruns, and budget risks to senior creative leadership
- Provide day-to-day guidance and execution support to creative teams
- Collaborate with account teams and internal stakeholders
- Support client-related creative processes and project execution
- Maintain communication across creative, account, and operational teams
- Identify opportunities to improve creative systems, tools, and workflows
- Help implement new creative processes and methodologies
- Support the evolution of the creative function by operationalizing new tools, processes, methodologies, and ways of working
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of experience in creative leadership, creative operations, design leadership, or a related role
- Experience managing creative projects from concept through final delivery
- Experience coordinating creative teams, workflows, timelines, and deliverables
- Strong understanding of creative strategy and translating it into effective execution
- Strong creative judgment and ability to provide thoughtful feedback
- Ability to balance creative quality with business objectives
- Strong project management and organizational capabilities
- Experience managing creative briefs, timelines, resources, review processes, and deliverables
- Ability to manage multiple creative initiatives, stakeholders, and priorities simultaneously
- Ability to proactively identify execution risks, bottlenecks, and resource challenges
- Comfortable creating structure and scalable processes within a creative environment
- Strong collaboration skills across creative and business teams
- Candidates must be available to work during U.S. business hours aligned with the client’s time zone
- Resume must be submitted in English and PDF format
- Required to submit a professional portfolio or relevant examples of creative work
- Required to submit a video showcasing skill sets
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