VP, Creative

November 11

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Media Cause

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Non-profit • Marketing

Media Cause is a nonprofit marketing agency dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations enhance their impact. By employing a people-first approach, Media Cause develops creative strategies, scalable growth plans, and targeted communications that engage supporters throughout their journey—from awareness and recruitment to fundraising and advocacy. Their work includes impactful campaigns like mobilizing communities around social issues and leveraging influencers for brand engagement. Media Cause partners with nonprofits, philanthropists, and NGOs of various sizes to drive real change through innovative marketing solutions.

51 - 200 employees

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• Provide high-level creative direction on the agency’s most strategic and high-profile accounts • Champion bold, innovative thinking that is deeply aligned with client missions and performance goals • Lead creative strategy and storytelling during new business pitches and major presentations • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and all agency team members on creative direction • Encourage and guide creative experimentation that leads to tangible business impact, new service offerings, and measurable improvements in client results • Oversee the Creative (Design) and Content teams, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and integration • Lead, inspire, and mentor a diverse team of creative professionals, ensuring they thrive and grow in their craft • Partner with team leads to set clear goals, performance standards, and career development pathways • Anticipate evolving creative skill needs and partner with leadership to plan hiring, training, and team growth accordingly • Model and reinforce a respectful, inclusive, and accountable culture across teams; proactively address cultural challenges and celebrate contributions • Define and evolve our creative service offerings to meet the changing needs of the nonprofit sector and stay ahead of industry trends • Develop and optimize creative processes and workflows to ensure operational excellence, quality, and efficiency • Implement performance-focused creative strategies that drive measurable impact for our clients • Collaborate closely with Account Leads and other Service Leads to ensure seamless integration across disciplines • Partner with business development to shape new offerings, support strategic growth initiatives, and new business pitches • Ensure creative excellence and consistency across all client touchpoints • Ensure consistent adoption of agency-wide processes and lead improvements that enhance clarity, efficiency, and accountability • Balance client needs, team capacity, and financial realities to ensure the creative function operates sustainably and efficiently • Partner with senior leadership to drive creative-led business growth, including scoping, pricing, and identifying opportunities to expand client relationships and agency impact • Lead the integration of emerging creative and cultural trends across client portfolios, ensuring our strategies remain insight-driven, relevant, and future-focused

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of creative leadership experience, ideally within an agency environment • Demonstrated expertise in leading multidisciplinary creative teams (design, content) and managing senior creative talent • Strong track record of developing and selling high-level creative concepts, particularly in new business contexts • Deep understanding of nonprofit marketing and communications—nonprofit sector experience is required • Proven ability to balance creativity with performance, delivering work that inspires audiences and achieves measurable results • Exceptional communication, presentation, and leadership skills • Strategic mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion for social impact • Solid portfolio of work across a variety of digital platforms • Team player, collaborative, curious, and a genuinely good human • Comfortable communicating and collaborating with copywriters, designers, developers, and account team partners • Ability to design and craft the story for client and agency presentation decks • Comfort presenting work to clients, covering visual execution, strategy, insight, and approach • Proactively seeks out new perspectives, ideas, and opportunities to enhance team work • Ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines, with awareness of own pace and capacity • Willing to find creative solutions for great work within budget constraints • Driven by a passion to make a difference, not just make money

🏖️ Benefits

• Family first work environment with flexible work from home options • Robust health, dental, and vision benefit plans for you and yours • 401 (k) & retirement planning • Agency-wide profit sharing • Unlimited personal time off (with an enforced 3-week minimum every year) • 2x/year mental health Fridays to reset and recharge • Flexible remote work: We’re open to candidates located anywhere in the US and support work getting done wherever it works best for the employee • $200/month health & wellness stipend to strengthen your body and/or mind • $1,000/year individual professional development stipend to cover any education/training that you want to pursue to grow in your role (or as a human!) • Agency commitment to building and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive agency (and we hold ourselves accountable) • Transparent & equitable career growth opportunities: Clear path for advancement and opportunity for anyone to raise their hand for promotion every 6 months • The ability to work with genuinely fantastic humans who care deeply about the work we do and each other • Yearly donations made to employees' nonprofit of choice to celebrate their Media Cause work anniversaries • A culture of volunteering and giving back to the communities we work in and to the issues we care about around the world