Associate Creative Director

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🕒 May 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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Active Theory

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🥽 AR/VR

Consulting • Marketing • AR/VR

Active Theory is a creative digital studio that designs and builds immersive, interactive web and XR experiences for brands and agencies. They combine design, creative coding, and front-end engineering (WebGL, three. js, interactive animation) to produce high-impact websites, installations, and AR/VR projects that prioritize visual storytelling and user engagement. Their work is focused on experiential digital media and interactive content.

📋 Description

• Take creative ownership of core client accounts, ensuring quality and clarity. • Set creative direction across projects from concept to execution. • Be accountable for overall creative health, not just individual deliverables. • Collaborate with production and tech to shape feasible approaches. • Serve as a creative lead on pitches, articulating the company's unique perspective.

🎯 Requirements

• Associate Creative Director (ACD) role marks transition from senior individual contribution into holistic creative leadership. • High level of trust, ownership, and influence—both within internal teams and across global client accounts. • Remain a practitioner at heart, staying deeply involved in the craft while taking command of creative direction, high-stakes client stewardship, and team mentorship. • Creative ownership of one or more core client accounts, ensuring consistency, quality, and clarity across engagements. • Set and maintain creative direction across projects — from early concept through execution. • Be accountable for overall creative health of the work, not just individual deliverables. • Be practiced in core creative competency – intimately familiar with creative execution at the highest level. • Hands-on with conceptual and delivery phases of the creative process as needed. • Understand possibilities and limitations within 2D/3D motion design. • Act as a creative point of continuity for assigned client accounts. • Build trust through taste, follow-through, and thoughtful decision-making. • Collaborate closely with Production and Tech to shape approaches that balance ambition, feasibility, and craft. • Step into a creative lead role on pitches and new client opportunities articulating unique perspective. • Help shape concepts, narratives, and presentations that reflect Active Theory’s point of view. • Act as a primary ambassador for Active Theory starting to build a public-facing leadership profile (e.g., through industry events or thought leadership). • Lead by example through craft, communication, and collaboration. • Demonstrate being AI native and generally interested in AI. • Provide direction and feedback that helps elevate designers and strengthen the work. • Contribute to creative standards, systems, and ways of working that scale across the studio. • Foster a design culture and support in department process and initiatives.