Associate Creative Director, Art

Position: Full-Time

Location: This position offers remote work from Los Angeles/New York/Denver. Please be aware that applications from candidates residing outside of California/Denver/New York may still be considered.

OVERVIEW 

Movement Strategy is looking for an Associate Creative Director to oversee our Fashion BU. You will report to the Group Creative Director and work closely with other Creative Team members as well as cross-functionally with Integrated Client Leadership and Strategy. We are looking for someone with social agency experience who has worked on large brands with high-volume content production, and experience being the creative lead on retail, lifestyle and/or consumer-based clients. We are looking for candidates with an art or design background passionate in redefining the model for editorialized social content created by brands.

As the Creative Lead within the Pod, you serve as the central creative authority for your client portfolio. You partner closely with the Pod Lead, cross-functional discipline leads, and your Group Creative Director to drive creative excellence, ensure seamless day-to-day collaboration, and uphold discipline standards within the POD/COE model. You are responsible for maintaining the creative vision across all workstreams, aligning creative output with client and business goals, and ensuring consistency with agency-wide creative standards.

A BIT ABOUT US

Movement Strategy creates content and campaigns for the world’s most exciting brands. We win awards, make headlines, shatter engagement numbers and celebrate the journey along the way. It’s why companies like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and Intuit come to us again and again.

We’re fully remote with hubs in New York, Denver, and LA, and a presence all across the US. We believe collaboration is what takes our work from good to great, and at times, even to legendary status. We champion diverse opinions and creativity in every department, and provide professional development and learning opportunities with the goal of helping you discover your best work today, and learn how to make it even better in the future.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Creative Leadership: Demonstrates a proven track record in providing mentorship and guidance to teams spanning mid and senior levels including writers, art directors, designers, production, and the content & engagement team. You know how to put pen to paper, making ideas actionable.
• Creative Direction: Sets the creative direction for communications, ensuring bold interpretation of brand guidelines, industry regulations, and social trends. Maintain a hands-on approach by conducting reviews with the team to ensure the highest standards of execution.
• Collaboration and Partnership: Collaborates seamlessly with agency teams, especially Strategy and Account Management teams, to gain a deep understanding of clients' brand strategies, target audiences, market nuances, competitive pressures, and marketing objectives. Translate these insights into effective creative strategies that drive engagement.
• Team Management: Viewed as a leader on the team and within the agency. Helping reports overcome challenges, and providing constructive feedback. Inspire a collaborative spirit, instilling confidence in direct and skip-level reports of their abilities to exceed creative standards. Conduct performance evaluations, mentor staff to greatness, and foster a collaborative and positive work environment.
• Quality Control: Upholds uncompromising standards of creative excellence with high attention to detail, consistently assembling teams capable of navigating the production process to deliver error-free creative materials within agreed timelines.
• Business Development: Showcases a track record of leadership in pitch processes, demonstrating the ability to shape pitch narratives, develop impactful creative concepts, and deliver winning work within pitch timelines.

• Serve as the Creative Lead within the Pod, acting as the primary driver of creative direction, standards, and execution across all client workstreams.
• Partner with the Pod Lead to align creative strategy with client objectives, insights, and cross-disciplinary needs.
• Collaborate across COEs (Strategy, C&E, Paid Media, Design, Influencer, Program Management, Account) to ensure cohesive, culturally relevant, and high-performing work.
• Maintain tight communication with the Group Creative Director to ensure consistency with agency-wide creative standards and discipline guidance.
• Participate in Pod-level planning, scoping, and workflow management to support clarity, efficiency, and integrated delivery.
• Represent the creative discipline within Pod rituals (intakes, reviews, weekly syncs, planning cycles), ensuring creative is fully connected to operational and strategic priorities.

QUALIFICATIONS + KEY FOCUS AREAS 

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in creative roles within the advertising industry, with extensive experience in digital marketing and social media 
• Portfolio showcasing award-winning conceptual thinking and execution, demonstrating expertise in creating beautifully designed and engaging campaigns.
• Ability to understand the social behind a brand and meme culture, contributing to both the visual expression and content of your teams’ ideas.
• Keen eye for design, with the ability to build design systems that bring efficiency and cohesion across business units.
• Experience in Beauty, Fashion, Home Goods and/or CPG sectors a must.
• Curious, growth-oriented leader passionate about embracing new technology, tools, approaches, and ideas in general to improve creative operations/processes and client work for high-volume content production. 
• Oversee and lead winning pitches for new and existing clients that showcase our Social-Centric approach and how that translates into breakthrough campaigns. 
• Possess the capability to step in and manage production (digital or live) initiatives.
• Direct and guide creative teams to ensure a cohesive environment, nurture a positive culture, enhance capabilities, refine processes, and align expectations to support the agency’s overarching goals effectively.
• Always up-to-date social trends, comfortable evaluating the trends and assessing new data with the latest marketing techniques
• Strong content design skills including digital, motion, and videoProficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and cloud-based design tools like Express and Figma
• Proficiency with Motion, After Effects, Premiere, and AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT is a major plus. 
• Strong knowledge of emerging social platforms and creative nuances per platform
• Knowledge of the full creative process including content creation and production
• Ability to oversee work from idea to execution and distribution
• Bachelor's degree preferred in advertising, marketing, or a related field. 

IDEAL QUALITIES                                                                         

• High energy, passionate, curious, confident, and tenacious in learning, coupled with the ability to navigate the nuances of different client teams.
• Must communicate quickly and accurately, think quickly or improvise, and present confidently.
• Should be a nimble self-starter and quickly adjust to internal and external teams in an ever-changing environment; identify opportunity with bias to action.
• You’re proactive and naturally curious about the digital and social space, constantly looking for opportunities to evolve the department and advance the work.
• You are passionate about the work you do and treat your client’s business as if it were your own.                       
• Have a track record of success in building strong relationships, leading teams, influencing others, and navigating client culture.
• You have a diverse and inclusive perspective, valuing different viewpoints and backgrounds within the team.
• You make others’ jobs easier (no matter who they are or what they do)
• You create a positive and open environment.
• Your attention to detail is unmatched, ensuring that paid outputs meet the highest quality standards and align with client objectives.
• You know how to work smarter, not harder.

Benefits & Perks

Movement Strategy’s approach to the future of work: We embrace a remote culture and empower our employees to work wherever they feel most productive. To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have a partnership with WeWork which allows our employees to have a membership to any location nationwide. 

As a leader in social advertising, we rely on the creativity of our people to deliver the best work for our clients. In return, we invest in our employees by offering them a diverse suite of benefits from best-in-class carriers, with enough choice and flexibility to keep our team and their families healthy and happy today and tomorrow.

• 100% employer contribution for health (base plan), vision, and dental
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance & AD&D
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fully-Remote Agency
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Mental Health Days
• 10 days minimum required off per year
• Company Paid Holidays + More
• Week-Long Winter Agency Closure
• Support for continued education
• New Business Referral Bonus
• Movement Journey Program -  Stipend for personal growth
• Health and Wellness Program
• WeWork Membership 
• Positive Impact and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committees 
• Employee Resource Groups

SALARY & COMPENSATION

In compliance with local and state law, we are disclosing the compensation for roles that will be performed in New York City, Colorado, and California. The range listed is just one component of Movement Strategy’s total compensation package for employees.  Individual compensation varies based on location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. 

A successful applicant’s actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, skill sets, years of relevant experience, qualifications, and certifications or other professional licenses held. Movement Strategy prides itself on providing competitive salaries and actively works to ensure there is pay equity across the company. 

Pay Range: 125k-130k salary per year

Movement Strategy is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they check every single box. Movement Strategy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages those from historically and systemically marginalized communities to apply. 

We believe that what we put out into the world matters. And since we were founded on the principles of paving our own path, we take bold steps toward what we believe is the right direction. This means addressing the big stuff: the systems of inequality that impact some of us far more than others. As culture creators, we firmly believe we have a responsibility to our colleagues, clients, communities, and the industry to live up to the Movement’s name. We confront inequities head-on as they come, knowing that this work is never done and that we must keep the momentum.