Executive Creative Director — Lead Bold Social Campaigns

The Climax Engineering company Limited; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly offices

Unlimited coffee, drinks, and snacks

Flexible time off

Office lunches

Branded company swag

Job summary

AntiSocial, part of the Thinkingbox family, seeks an Executive Creative Director to lead the creative vision and standard across social, digital, and integrated campaigns. You’ll mentor a multidisciplinary team and partner with Strategy, Accounts, and senior leadership to shape client work and new business opportunities.

You’ll guide ideas from concept through production, ensuring culturally relevant, ambitious work that translates across platforms while balancing budgets and timelines.

Qualifications

• Significant creative leadership experience within an advertising, creative, social, or integrated agency.
• 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 and how creative behaviour differs across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels
• Strong conceptual thinking with 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 the ability to sell ambitious creative thinking to senior clients and stakeholders

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 work that is distinctive, culturally relevant, strategically grounded, and effective
• Ensure ideas translate naturally across social platforms while having the potential to extend into broader integrated campaigns and experiences
• Stay deeply connected to culture, emerging platforms, creators, technology, and changing audience behaviours
• Build a creative culture where experimentation, curiosity, collaboration, and ambitious thinking are encouraged
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across copy, art direction, design, content, and social creative
• Provide clear, constructive creative direction while giving teams the space and confidence to develop their own ideas
• Help define the structure, capabilities, and talent AntiSocial needs as the company continues to grow
• Identify opportunities to strengthen the team through hiring, development, freelance talent, and external creative partners
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment where people can do the strongest work of their careers
• Act as a senior creative partner to key clients, building trust and confidently presenting and defending creative thinking
• Translate client and business challenges into compelling creative opportunities
• Partner with Strategy and Account leadership to develop strong creative briefs and ensure strategic thinking carries through to execution
• Play a leadership role in pitches and new business, helping shape the creative story and representing AntiSocial in the room
• Build relationships that position AntiSocial as a trusted creative partner rather than simply an executional social agency
• Oversee work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery
• Partner closely with Production to ensure ambitious ideas are executed at a high level while remaining realistic about budgets, timelines, and platforms
• Balance brand-building creativity with the speed, volume, and responsiveness required by social
• Raise the quality of both large campaign work and everyday content - understanding that every touchpoint contributes to the brand
• Know when to push for craft and polish and when speed, relevance, and authenticity matter more.

Skills

Creative leadership

Executive leadership

Brand & social campaigns

Pitch & new business

Presentation skills

Team development

Job description

AntiSocial, part of the Thinkingbox family, seeks an Executive Creative Director to lead the creative vision and standard across social, digital, and integrated campaigns. You’ll mentor a multidisciplinary team and partner with Strategy, Accounts, and senior leadership to shape client work and new business opportunities.

You’ll guide ideas from concept through production, ensuring culturally relevant, ambitious work that translates across platforms while balancing budgets and timelines.