Executive Creative Director, Creative Development

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🗽 New York, Massachusetts – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $197.2k - $263.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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dentsu Austria

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1900

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

🏢 Enterprise

Marketing • Media • Enterprise

dentsu Austria is a part of the Dentsu Group, serving as an integrated growth and transformation partner to leading organizations worldwide. The company focuses on pushing the boundaries of business transformation and sustainable growth, providing world-class services and integrated solutions. Dentsu Austria is committed to innovating and creating experiences that enrich every business, with a strong emphasis on research, analysis, and media trends. By leveraging their global network of innovators, they strive to simplify complexities and drive impactful outcomes for brands, people, and society.

📋 Description

• Shape high-impact, business-driving creative work for a major enterprise retail client • Lead integrated teams across brand-building platforms, seasonal campaigns, commerce, shopper, digital, social, in-store, content, CRM, and production deliverables • Partner with agency creative leadership, strategy, account, production, media, and client teams • Quickly understand the client’s brand, category, customer journey, promotional rhythms, stakeholder landscape, and operational complexity • Translate business objectives, customer insights, category dynamics, and merchandising priorities into distinctive, effective, and executable creative ideas • Guide teams from brief through concept, presentation, refinement, production, and delivery • Drive creative excellence across integrated retail work and ensure ideas are strategically sharp, beautifully crafted, channel-right, and grounded in customer behavior • Balance breakthrough thinking with promotional calendars, claims, legal review, partner approvals, modular toolkits, asset variation, and production efficiency • Build trust with internal teams and senior client stakeholders • Present creative work with confidence, business rationale, and a clear point of view • Guide art directors, copywriters, designers, social/content creatives, production partners, and extended teams • Create momentum, provide feedback, and help teams make smart tradeoffs • Onboard quickly, identify gaps, and establish productive working rhythms • Shape creative reviews, internal checkpoints, client presentations, and production handoffs • Manage multiple workstreams and timelines, escalating risks early and focusing teams on high-value creative decisions • Operate with freelance agility, ownership, discretion, and executive creative leadership presence

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of creative experience, including senior creative leadership within an agency, retail, commerce, shopper, brand, or integrated marketing environment • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise retail or similarly complex, high-volume client work with multiple stakeholders, channels, and approval layers • Strong portfolio showing integrated creative leadership across brand, digital, social, content, retail media, shopper, CRM, experiential, OOH, film/video, and/or in-store touchpoints • Proven ability to lead teams, present to senior clients, shape creative strategy, and deliver work that is both distinctive and commercially effective • Comfort operating in a freelance capacity, including fast onboarding, flexible collaboration, strong communication, clear prioritization, and reliable delivery against tight timelines • Bachelor’s degree, portfolio school background, or equivalent professional experience in advertising, design, marketing, communications, or a related field • Talent must be located in the New York or Boston area

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy • Safe and sick time