Creative Director

WOW Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WOW Recruitment is seeking a visionary design leader to spearhead creative direction for high-stake bids in Sydney. The role involves shaping ideas with the client and ensuring winning outcomes while overseeing a large design team in a hybrid setup.

You’ll drive the creative vision, sign off on outputs, and partner with pitch, sales and delivery teams to craft compelling proposals for household-name brands. Strong Australian market experience and a track record of winning pitches are essential.

Qualifications

• Agency background with Australian market experience is essential.
• Proven track record of winning pitches, especially design-led bids.
• Demonstrable ability to showcase recognizable client logos.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative side of new business pitches to prospects.
• Set the creative vision and brief the design team.
• Sign off creative output before client delivery.
• Collaborate with pitch, sales and delivery teams to shape proposals.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Skills

Agency background

Australian market experience

Pitch-winning track record

Design-led bids

Client logos presence

Executive presence

Digital experience (web, ecommerce, B2

SaaS platforms experience

Self-motivated

Job description

Up to $190,000 + Super + Profit Share | Sydney (Hybrid)

Spend your week in front of clients, shaping ideas and winning work. A large, dedicated design team turns your direction into finished work, and AI is part of how the agency delivers, so ideas get tested and built faster.

The agency is on a run of new business wins and wants a creative leader who can take on the design-led bids and win them. You would be that hire.

Why This Job

• Your time goes where you’re best: vision, direction and client relationships. The team handles the build, which leaves your week free for the work you love.
• Design is the next growth lever: the business is investing in creative leadership because design-led bids drive its next wave of wins. You would be the person it builds around.
• Authority with scale behind it: you hold creative sign-off across a large team, so your standard shows up in everything that ships.
• Brands people know: you redesign digital experiences for household names, from ecommerce to B2B, with client relationships that run for years.
• A direct line to the top: a flat structure reporting to the Country Manager, with real influence on how the agency shows up in Australia and New Zealand.
• Profit share: you share in the growth you help create.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading the creative side of new business pitches and presenting ideas to prospects with confidence
• Setting the creative vision and briefing the design team
• Signing off creative output before it reaches the client
• Partnering with the pitch, sales and delivery teams to shape winning proposals
• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

What You’ll Bring

• An agency background with strong Australian market experience
• A track record of winning pitches, especially design-led ones
• Recognisable client logos that will impress prospects
• Presence, authority and the ability to hold a room
• Experience across digital experience work such as websites, ecommerce, B2B or SaaS platforms
• A self-motivated approach that suits a flat structure