Executive Creative Director

New Fitzco - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Executive

Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Executive Creative Director (ECD) at Fitzco is a dynamic agency leader responsible for driving the creative vision across multiple teams to produce award-winning solutions. This role involves not only creating exceptional work but also mentoring and developing the skills of the creative team. The ECD collaborates closely with clients and internal teams to ensure that creative objectives align with agency and client goals, fostering a high-performing and supportive culture within the agency.

Responsibilities

• Inspire all levels of creative leadership within the agency
• Provide high-level concept guidance to optimize creative work
• Build, create and maintain culture across the creative department and agency at large
• Present and deliver concepts and deliverables to existing and prospective clients
• Foster ongoing improvements in creative processes and methodologies
• Ensure creative objectives and approaches align with both agency and client goals
• Collaborate with the Head of Creative on staffing plans and overall reporting structure for the team
• Serve as the creative lead on several accounts, as well as IAT co-lead on main CPG client, creating/directing culturally relevant, industry-recognized work that solves clients' business problems
• Manage and direct creative assigned to teams under your supervision
• Collaborate regularly with strategy, account and media to create smart integrated thinking
• Mentor and manage writers/art directors on all assigned accounts
• Curate and collaborate with creative vendors / production partners

Requirements

• Extensive team leadership and development experience
• 15+ years of experience in the agency or brand world
• Bachelor's degree in related field: advertising, journalism, communication, marketing, design etc.
• A diverse portfolio that showcases a refined eye for strategy, design and copy across a variety of project types and mediums
• Experience leading/working within an IAT and with clients across a variety of categories
• Demonstrable high-level skill within the Adobe Suite
• Extensive knowledge of digital and social platforms

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent communicator, with command of visual and verbal brand development
• Exceptional design-thinking
• Thorough understanding of brand architecture, audience segmentation and systems
• Collaborative
• Relentless work ethic
• Leads by example
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Successful leadership track record
• Ability to unify a team around a common goal
• Efficient problem solver
• Morale builder and influencer

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Support for diversity in the workplace