Executive Creative Director

Jobtailor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AntiSocial is seeking a Senior Creative leader to set the vision and drive the creative across major accounts, campaigns, pitches, and new business opportunities. You will push teams toward distinctive, culturally relevant and strategically grounded work, ensuring ideas translate across social and integrated campaigns.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team and partner with Strategy and Account leadership, leading pitches and guiding production from concept to delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant creative leadership experience within an advertising, creative, social, or integrated agency environment.
• Portfolio of standout creative work across social, digital, and integrated campaigns.
• Deep understanding of social platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
• Strong conceptual thinking, including the ability to move between big campaign ideas and fast, culturally relevant social content.
• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to sell ambitious creative thinking to senior clients and stakeholders.
• Experience leading pitches and contributing to new business growth.
• Strong understanding of production and ability to guide ideas from concept through execution.
• Active interest in culture, creators, entertainment, technology, design, and the evolving social landscape.

Responsibilities

• Set and champion the overall creative vision and standard for AntiSocial.
• Lead creative across major accounts, campaigns, pitches, and new business opportunities.
• Push teams toward distinctive, culturally relevant, strategically grounded, and effective work.
• Ensure ideas translate naturally across social platforms and can extend into broader integrated campaigns and experiences.
• Stay connected to culture, emerging platforms, creators, technology, and changing audience behaviours.
• Build a culture of experimentation, curiosity, collaboration, and ambitious thinking.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across copy, art direction, design, content, and social creative.
• Define team structure, capabilities, and talent needs as the company grows.
• Strengthen the team through hiring, development, freelance talent, and external creative partners.
• Act as a senior creative partner to key clients and present and defend creative thinking.
• Translate client and business challenges into creative opportunities.
• Partner with Strategy and Account leadership on creative briefs and execution.
• Lead pitches and new business efforts.
• Oversee work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery.
• Partner with Production to ensure ideas are executed at a high level within budgets, timelines, and platform constraints.
• Balance brand-building creativity with the speed, volume, and responsiveness required by social.
• Raise the quality of large campaigns and everyday content.

Skills

Creative leadership

Multidisciplinary team development

Strong presentation skills

Social platform expertise

Conceptual thinking

Tools

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Job description

Set and champion the overall creative vision and standard for AntiSocial
Lead creative across major accounts, campaigns, pitches, and new business opportunities
Push teams toward distinctive, culturally relevant, strategically grounded, and effective work
Ensure ideas translate naturally across social platforms and can extend into broader integrated campaigns and experiences
Stay connected to culture, emerging platforms, creators, technology, and changing audience behaviours
Build a culture of experimentation, curiosity, collaboration, and ambitious thinking
Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across copy, art direction, design, content, and social creative
Define team structure, capabilities, and talent needs as the company grows
Strengthen the team through hiring, development, freelance talent, and external creative partners
Act as a senior creative partner to key clients and present and defend creative thinking
Translate client and business challenges into creative opportunities
Partner with Strategy and Account leadership on creative briefs and execution
Lead pitches and new business efforts
Oversee work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery
Partner with Production to ensure ideas are executed at a high level within budgets, timelines, and platform constraints
Balance brand-building creativity with the speed, volume, and responsiveness required by social
Raise the quality of large campaigns and everyday content

Requirements

• Significant creative leadership experience within an advertising, creative, social, or integrated agency environment
• Proven experience at the Creative Director, Group Creative Director, Executive Creative Director, or equivalent level
• A portfolio of standout creative work across social, digital, content, and integrated campaigns
• Deep understanding of social platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels
• Strong conceptual thinking, including the ability to move between big campaign ideas and fast, culturally relevant social content
• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams
• Strong presentation skills and ability to sell ambitious creative thinking to senior clients and stakeholders
• Experience leading pitches and contributing to new business growth
• Strong understanding of production and ability to guide ideas from concept through execution
• Active interest in culture, creators, entertainment, technology, design, and the evolving social landscape

Core Competencies

Demonstrates significant creative leadership in advertising and integrated agency environments, with a strong portfolio showcasing standout work across social, digital, and content campaigns. Capable of leading and developing multidisciplinary teams while effectively translating client challenges into innovative creative solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Creative Leadership Experience
• Multidisciplinary Team Development
• Strong Presentation Skills
• Social Platform Expertise
• Conceptual Thinking

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Curiosity
• Ambitious Thinking

Industry Keywords

• Advertising
• Creative Agency
• Integrated Campaigns
• Cultural Relevance
• Emerging Platforms

Tools & Technologies

• Social Media Platforms
• TikTok
• Instagram
• YouTube