Creative Director

About The Opportunity

Logical Media Group is collaborating with a forward-thinking, design-centric digital agency in Philadelphia to fill a contract position for a Creative Director. This role merges brand strategy, creative leadership, and digital expertise to address complex business issues by crafting impactful, human-focused experiences. The Creative Director will oversee strategic and creative direction for a variety of clients spanning healthcare, higher education, enterprise entities, and emerging brands.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the development of brand strategies, positioning, messaging frameworks, and digital experience recommendations aligned with client objectives.
• Connect strategic insights and creative proposals to client targets, audience understanding, and commercial goals.
• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder workshops, and strategic planning processes.
• Transform research and business data into compelling brand stories, messaging platforms, and customer experience strategies.
• Identify opportunities across marketing, digital experiences, products, and services.
• Collaborate closely with client services to synchronize recommendations with client priorities, budgets, and long-term vision.
• Set and communicate the strategic and creative vision for projects.
• Compose detailed creative briefs with clear goals and actionable instructions.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams spanning branding, web, UX/UI, content, digital marketing, and campaigns with effective creative direction and constructive feedback ensuring brand consistency.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing creative culture while mentoring designers, writers, strategists, and team members.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and marketing leaders by confidently presenting creative concepts and strategies.
• Facilitate dialogue that links business objectives to creative opportunities and align cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with account and project teams to ensure successful delivery maintaining strategic and creative integrity.
• Lead research activities including stakeholder interviews, audience analysis, competitive research, surveys, and workshops to inform strategies.
• Synthesize complex information into clear, executive-ready presentations utilizing design thinking and human-centered methodologies.
• Stay current on trends in branding, consumer behavior, digital experiences, marketing, technology, and AI-driven solutions.
• Contribute ideas and strategies for new business development and agency thought leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience spearheading brand, digital, or integrated creative initiatives in agencies or consulting environments.
• Proven track record creating brand strategies, creative campaigns, digital experiences, and marketing programs.
• Comprehensive understanding of branding, UX/UI principles, web design, digital marketing, content strategies, and customer experience.
• Experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams including strategy, design, content, marketing, and technology professionals.
• Exceptional storytelling, facilitation, presentation, and communication skills tailored for executive audiences.
• Strong capability to distill intricate business challenges into straightforward and persuasive creative solutions.
• Comfortable presenting to senior leadership and conducting strategic workshops.
• Knowledgeable about current digital ecosystems encompassing websites, CMS platforms, paid media, marketing automation tools, analytics, and emerging AI-powered experiences.
• A collaborative leadership approach emphasizing curiosity, empathy, accountability, and ongoing learning.

Why Join This Role

• Engage with a contract role at a collaborative and design-driven agency.
• Lead strategic and creative efforts across various client projects.
• Influence brand strategies, digital experiences, and comprehensive campaigns.
• Directly collaborate with executive stakeholders and marketing leadership.
• Mentor multidisciplinary creative teams and raise creative quality standards.
• Play an active role in business growth and agency thought leadership.
• Balance artistic excellence with measurable business impact.