Executive Creative Director

Overview

* Please note the agency has a large number of clients that are faith-based organizations. 

Position Summary

The Executive Creative Director (ECD) is the senior-most creative leader, responsible for defining the creative vision, elevating the quality and consistency of integrated work, and advancing the agency’s full-service creative practice.

This role requires a blend of visionary leadership, strategic client direction, and hands-on creative excellence. The ECD will integrate brand strategy, content, design, digital, and production teams into a cohesive creative force that drives measurable impact for clients across corporate, nonprofit, government, and mission-driven sectors.

Location: Washington, DC Reports To: President, Chief Brand Officer 

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Creative & Agency Leadership

• Define and champion the agency’s overarching creative vision, aligning it with integrated storytelling, reputation-building, and earned-first content delivery.
• Develop insight-driven creative platforms that integrate messaging, PR narratives, performance media, social strategy, and digital experiences.
• Guide cross-functional teams in shaping campaign concepts, brand systems, web experiences, and thought-leadership assets.
• Serve as the senior creative thought partner to executive leadership on pricing models, creative processes, and long-term agency capabilities.

2. Senior Client & Campaign Direction

• Act as the senior creative lead for enterprise clients across public affairs, government contractors, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with C-suite leaders by translating complex challenges into clear, compelling, multi-channel creative solutions.
• Lead major ideation sessions, campaign planning workshops, and brand discovery engagements.
• Ensure creative recommendations align with the specific nuances of regulated environments and mission-based sensitivities.

3. Creative Oversight & Quality Control

• Oversee all major creative deliverables, including brand identities, integrated campaigns, motion/film content, website experiences, and complex communication materials.
• Review, refine, and elevate creative work from early concepting to final production to maintain consistent creative excellence.
• Set quality benchmarks, creative guidelines, and visual/messaging standards across the agency’s content delivery workflow.
• Drive innovation by incorporating modern creative tools, AI-powered production workflows, and emerging media formats.

4. Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor an interdisciplinary creative department (Social, Design, Production, Experience Design).
• Create structured collaboration workflows that unite earned media, paid media, social, and strategy teams for seamless multi-channel campaign delivery.
• Coach teams on how to articulate, elevate, and effectively sell creative ideas to senior client stakeholders.
• Develop career pathways and resourcing models to scale the creative department’s growth and capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 12+ years leading creative teams in an integrated agency environment (PR, digital, advertising).
• Sector Success: Demonstrated success with enterprise clients across B2B, public affairs, public sector/federal, or mission-driven sectors.
• Mastery: Expertise across a broad range of disciplines, including Performance Marketing, Content Strategy, Messaging, Digital Marketing, Web Design, and Integrated Campaign Development.
• Client Comfort: High comfort level working with government, nonprofit, and mission-driven leadership, translating complex challenges into clear solutions.
• Leadership: Proven ability to build, mentor, and scale diverse interdisciplinary creative teams with humility and a commitment to clarity and integrity.

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