Role Overview

We are looking for a highly creative and strategically driven Associate Creative Director / Senior Art Lead to lead the art function across brands, campaigns, and content ecosystems for a fast-growing, content-first, platform-native creative agency.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong visual storytelling with modern digital thinking and traditional advertising craft. The ideal candidate should be capable of building powerful campaign ideas, scalable content systems, and high-quality executions across digital, social, print, film, influencer, and integrated brand experiences.

You will work closely with the Senior Creative Director, Strategy, Copy, Content, and Account Management teams to shape creative direction, elevate output quality, mentor teams, and deliver impactful work across multiple brands and industries. The role also requires active adoption of AI-enabled creative workflows to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and manage the art and design team across multiple brands, campaigns, and ongoing mandates

- Define and maintain high visual standards across digital, social, integrated, and mainline creative outputs

- Translate briefs into strong visual territories, platform-first campaign ideas, and integrated creative systems

- Guide projects from concept to execution while ensuring consistency, craft excellence, and brand coherence

- Mentor and develop Art Directors, Designers, Motion Artists, and junior creative talent through structured feedback and creative direction

- Collaborate with Copy, Strategy, Servicing, and Content teams to create culturally relevant and business-driven campaigns

- Drive integrated thinking across social media, digital campaigns, print, OOH, film, retail, influencer, experiential, and branded content ecosystems

- Build scalable always-on content systems, repeatable content formats, and social-first creative frameworks

- Lead visual direction for influencer collaborations, creator-led campaigns, and platform-native content

- Deliver fast-turnaround reactive and real-time content while maintaining creative quality and brand consistency

- Bring strong understanding of traditional advertising craft across print, outdoor, retail branding, and campaign systems

- Ensure modern digital executions remain aligned with long-term brand-building principles

- Actively use AI tools across ideation, design exploration, production assistance, and workflow optimization

- Integrate AI-enabled creative processes to improve team efficiency, output quality, and scalability

- Present ideas and creative solutions confidently to internal stakeholders and clients

- Defend creative decisions with clarity, logic, and strategic thinking while effectively managing feedback

- Build strong working relationships across teams and clients while driving collaboration and accountability

Ideal Candidate Profile

- 7+ years of experience in advertising, creative, or integrated agencies with strong exposure across digital, social, mainline, and integrated campaigns

- Proven experience leading creative teams across multiple brand categories and campaign formats

- Strong expertise in digital-first and social-first creative thinking with hands-on experience in influencer marketing, creator ecosystems, and content-led campaigns

- Demonstrated experience across print, OOH, integrated campaigns, and brand launches

- Strong understanding of motion design, film, editing, video storytelling, and production workflows across static and video formats

- Active user of AI tools within creative workflows including ideation, design exploration, production support, and efficiency enhancement

- Strong portfolio showcasing campaign systems, integrated visual territories, and multi-platform executions across digital, social, film, print, and OOH

- Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage pressure effectively

- Strong understanding of platform behaviours, internet culture, trends, and evolving content ecosystems

- Ability to balance speed, creativity, quality, and commercial objectives in a fast-paced agency environment

- Collaborative, solutions-oriented, future-focused, and passionate about evolving creative craft through technology

Why Join Us

- Opportunity to shape the creative direction of a modern, platform-native agency

- Work on high-impact brands and integrated campaigns across industries

- Lead and mentor a talented multidisciplinary creative team

- Exposure to cutting-edge AI-enabled creative workflows and innovation

- Fast-paced, collaborative, and creatively ambitious work environment

- Strong ownership, visibility, and career growth opportunities within leadership roles