Creative Director (Advertising)

Confidential Careers; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers seeks a Creative Director who thrives on social trends and stopping scrolls. You will lead creative teams from concept to execution, ensuring work is culturally relevant, ambitious, and on-brand.

You will unify art, copy, and editing, inspire ideation for current and prospective clients, and drive high-quality solutions across diverse campaigns. Strong leadership and strategic thinking are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead large creative teams across multiple geographies.
• Ability to translate briefs into big, culturally relevant ideas.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Integrate art, copy and editing across teams.
• Inspires ideation for current and new clients.
• Leads development of creative work from concept to execution.
• Manages and reviews outputs to ensure high quality and brand alignment.
• Develops and optimizes creative processes and workshops.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Client interaction

Team leadership

Communication

Project management

APAC experience

Job description

We’re looking for a Creative Director who knows social, trend, and what makes people stop scrolling.

Someone who can turn a brief into a big idea, lead creative teams from concept to execution, and build work that feels culturally relevant, creatively ambitious, and unmistakably on-brand.

What you're gonna do :

• Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guides the team across each.
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients.
• Leads creative development for specific clients, working closely with clients to co-create when appropriate.
• Engages and inspires teams across a large body of work; capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency.
• Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback.
• Reviews and optimizes the team's output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
• Leads the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.
• Provides high level concept guidance and approvals.
• Develops company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work.
• Leads streamlining creative processes to improve team structure at a wider level, providing input on wider operational systems.
• Attends and provides leadership in high priority project brief and kick off sessions.
• Constructs client confidence as a leader who can manage work while successfully interpreting their brands
• Ensures that work is outstanding creatively and meets all brand objectives, while providing clear support and communication to the senior team on all current initiatives.
• Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique company POV.
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field with relevant APAC region scope.

Execution - ability to prioritise and deliver effectively with autonomy.

Leadership - ability to maintain self-awareness and self-motivation while creating an impact through sharing, learning, innovation and company culture sustainability.

Empathy - ability to show compassion, manage diverse personalities while cultivating a sense of understanding.

Communication - ability to effectively interact, manage and inspire those around us.

Strategic Thinking - ability to forecast decision outcomes and conduct sound business judgment.

Adaptability - ability to change, be curious and naturally resilient to this ever changing world.

• Worked with teams in complex, multi-geography, multi-cultural environments.
• Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
• Natural ability to develop and maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems.