Senior Creative / Creative Lead

Private Advertiser; Selangor; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser seeks a Senior Creative to lead its creative function, guiding strategy, direction, and delivery across campaigns and brands.

You will coach junior designers, review work for quality, and drive processes that improve workflows, timelines, and output. This role emphasizes leadership, cross-brand orchestration, and hands-on creative excellence.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of relevant creative experience with increasing leadership responsibility.
• Experience reviewing and directing other creatives.
• Strong typography, hierarchy and visual storytelling fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative function and align on strategic briefs.
• Develop and challenge campaign concepts and visual ideas.
• Review design, content, video and campaign creative; maintain brand standards.
• Coach junior and mid-level creatives towards greater independence.
• Delegate based on capability, workload and priority; provide clear briefs with deadlines.
• Build and scale a creative operation that delivers quality on time.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand thinking

Campaign conceptualization

Visual storytelling

Delegation

Resource planning

Workflow improvement

AI curiosity

Job description

Build the Work. Lead the People. Shape the Creative Function.

You've built your creative craft.

Now you're ready for bigger ownership — ideas, people, systems and delivery.

A growing marketing and creative agency is searching for a Senior Creative / Creative

Lead to help lead its next stage of growth.

This isn't simply about producing great work yourself.

It's about making the whole creative function stronger because you're leading it.

We're looking for someone who can:

What You'll Own

Turn strategy and business objectives into strong creative direction

Develop and challenge campaign concepts and visual ideas

Review design, content, video and campaign creative

Maintain strong standards across multiple brands

Present and articulate creative thinking clearly

Delegate based on capability, workload and priority

Give creatives clear briefs, direction and deadlines

Review work without becoming the bottleneck

Coach junior and mid-level creatives towards greater independence

Identify capability gaps and help raise the team's overall standard

Your success isn't measured only by your own work, but by how good the work becomes around you.

Help build a creative operation that doesn't depend on firefighting:

You'll improve:

Briefing and creative workflows

Resource and workload planning

Review and quality-control processes

Production planning and deadlines

Asset and version management

Templates, SOPs and reusable frameworks

We want someone who asks:

"Why does this problem keep happening and how do we prevent it?"

Agency work moves quickly.

You'll need to know:

What needs perfection. What needs excellence. What needs experimentation. What simply needs to ship.

You'll identify risks early, reallocate resources when necessary and protect both creative quality and deadlines.

Because great creative delivered too late is still a missed opportunity.

You should understand both:

You don't need to personally be the strongest specialist in every discipline.

But you need the judgement to direct and improve the people who are.

Who We're Looking For

Ideally, you have 4–7+ years of relevant creative experience with increasing leadership responsibility.

You should bring:

• Strong creative and visual judgement
• Conceptual and campaign thinking
• Strong typography, hierarchy and visual storytelling fundamentals
• Experience reviewing and directing other creatives
• Strong delegation and resource planning
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Experience improving workflows, SOPs or creative processes
• Understanding of social-first and performance creative
• Confidence presenting and defending creative decisions
• High ownership without needing to control everything
• Curiosity towards AI and emerging creative workflows

You may currently be a:

Senior Creative Senior Designer Art Director Creative Lead Associate Creative Director Senior Brand Designer Your title matters less than the level at which you can operate.

What's In It For You?

Shape The Work Move beyond execution and own creative direction and standards.

Build Your Leadership Track Record Lead people, delegate effectively and develop a stronger creative team.

Build The System Have a real voice in how a growing creative function operates and scales.

Build Stronger Career Capital Work across different brands, campaigns, platforms and creative challenges.

Build Your Next Leadership Chapter Grow beyond Senior Creative towards broader Creative Leadership.

Above All...

We don't want a Creative Lead who becomes the system.

We want someone who can build a system where great work gets produced consistently — without everything depending on one person.

Make the work better. Make the people better. Make the system better.