Executive/Creative Director

Company-Level Responsibilities

• Partner with the other ECD to shape and evolve Active Theory’s design culture

• Maintain a high bar for creative quality across all projects you oversee

• Provide creative oversight and feedback to designers across multiple teams

• Participate in internal reviews, critiques, and creative forums

• Contribute to studio-wide creative initiatives, experimentation, and thought leadership

Project-Level Responsibilities

• Serve as Executive/Creative Director and project lead on assigned client work, from concept through launch

• Own creative vision, narrative, and execution across projects, ensuring work is visually striking, conceptually rigorous, and technically sound

• Lead creative discovery, ideation, design direction, and reviews

• Be hands-on when needed, contributing directly to design, motion, or visual systems

• Present work and creative rationale clearly and confidently to senior client stakeholders

• Partner closely with production and development to balance creative ambition with scope, timelines, and budget

Client & Account Leadership

• Act as Creative Lead for Clients, developing deep understanding of the brand, creative standards, and long-term vision

• Establish trusted client relationships through strong creative leadership and consistent delivery

• Lead pitches, concept presentations, and creative strategy discussions

• Provide creative leadership and client management in partnership with production and account leads

Leadership, Mentorship & Growth

• Mentor mid-level and junior designers through project feedback, creative guidance, and career development

• Support the growth and elevation of senior creatives ensuring they have the opportunity to grow in their craft and as leaders

• Participate in hiring by reviewing portfolios, interviewing candidates, and helping define role expectations

• Manage the North American Creative Team

• Represent Active Theory externally through public speaking, events, talks, and industry presence

Required Experience & Skills

• 8+ years of experience in digital design/creative production, ideally within a creative or digital agency

• Proven experience leading large-scale, highly interactive projects from concept to launch

• Strong conceptual thinking paired with excellent visual and design craft

• Deep familiarity with tools such as Figma, Adobe Suite, After Effects, C4D, and related creative workflows

• Strong understanding of interactive and WebGL-driven experiences (hands-on or through close collaboration)

• Excellent presentation, communication, and storytelling skills

• Ability to lead teams with clarity, empathy, and confidence

• Comfortable balancing creative ambition with practical constraints

• New business efforts are elevated through clear, compelling creative vision

• Clients trust your leadership and see you as a long-term creative partner

• Projects consistently launch at a high creative bar

• Designers feel supported, challenged, and inspired by your feedback

• Active Theory’s design culture continues to mature, evolve, and strengthen

• Senior creatives, especially emerging leaders, grow alongside you