Creative Director

24 Seven Talent; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

24 Seven Talent is seeking a highly conceptual, execution-focused Creative Director to lead brand, campaigns, and digital creative across channels. You will set the creative vision and oversee high-impact work that drives engagement and strengthens brand identity.

This strategic, hands-on leader translates business goals into compelling ideas, inspires multidisciplinary teams, and balances storytelling with performance insights to optimize audience impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of creative experience with at least 5 years in a senior creative leadership role.
• Proven experience leading integrated brand and digital campaigns across multiple channels.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, storytelling, digital creative, and cross-channel campaigns.
• Ability to translate objectives into compelling concepts while maintaining brand integrity.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the overarching creative vision across brand campaigns, digital experiences, content, and communications.
• Translate business and marketing objectives into creative concepts, platforms, and narratives.
• Lead creative direction for social, content, video, and motion initiatives while ensuring platform-native execution.
• Partner with marketing, strategy, and cross-functional teams to bring campaigns from concept through execution.
• Balance brand storytelling with performance insights to drive engagement and measured impact.
• Present concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders and incorporate feedback while preserving creative integrity.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages bold ideas and high creative standards.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand storytelling

Integrated campaigns

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring teams

Presentation and storytelling

Job description

We are looking for a highly conceptual, execution-focused Creative Director to lead brand, campaign, and digital creative across channels. You will set the creative vision and oversee the development of high-impact work that drives engagement, strengthens brand identity, and supports business objectives.

This role is ideal for a strategic, hands‑on creative leader who can translate business goals into compelling ideas, inspire multidisciplinary teams, and balance strong brand storytelling with performance and audience insights.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Vision & Brand Storytelling

• Define and evolve the overarching creative vision across brand campaigns, digital experiences, content, and communications.
• Translate business and marketing objectives into compelling creative concepts, platforms, and narratives.
• Establish a distinctive and cohesive brand language across channels and audience touchpoints.
• Ensure creative work is strategically sound, visually compelling, and aligned with the broader brand.

Integrated Campaigns & Digital Creative

• Concept and direct integrated campaigns across web, social, video, email, paid media, and other digital channels.
• Develop creative approaches that can flex across platforms and audiences while maintaining a consistent brand voice.
• Partner with marketing, strategy, and other cross-functional teams to bring campaigns from concept through execution.
• Balance brand‑building creative with work designed to drive measurable engagement and performance.

Content, Social & Motion

• Lead creative direction for social, content, video, and motion initiatives.
• Oversee the development of platform‑native content across both organic and paid channels.
• Collaborate with internal teams, agencies, freelancers, photographers, directors, and other creative partners to produce high-quality work.
• Identify emerging creative trends, formats, and technologies that can strengthen storytelling and audience engagement.

Leadership & Cross‑Functional Partnership

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary creative team across design, art direction, copy, motion, and production.
• Partner closely with marketing, brand, communications, growth, and other teams to align creative with business priorities.
• Present creative concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders and incorporate feedback while maintaining creative integrity.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages strong ideas, experimentation, and high creative standards.

Creative Systems, Optimization & Scale

• Develop creative systems, toolkits, and guidelines that enable teams to produce consistent, high-quality work efficiently.
• Partner with marketing and analytics teams to understand performance and apply insights to future creative.
• Champion a test‑and‑learn approach, using audience insights and performance data to refine messaging, visuals, and formats.
• Identify opportunities to improve creative processes, workflows, and ways of working.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of creative experience, with at least 5 years in a senior creative leadership role.
• Proven experience developing and leading integrated brand and digital campaigns across multiple channels.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, brand storytelling, digital creative, and integrated campaign work.
• Experience leading work across web, social, video, email, paid media, content, and other digital platforms.
• Ability to use audience insights, performance data, and testing to inform creative decisions without compromising brand quality.
• Track record of leading, inspiring, and developing multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Strong understanding of the creative process from concept and strategy through production and execution.
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment and balancing multiple priorities.