Creative Director

Weber Shandwick; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Weber Shandwick in Los Angeles seeks a dynamic Creative Director to guide award-winning campaigns across corporate and healthcare-focused projects. You will lead creative development and drive engagement across earned, digital, and social media, balancing corporate communication with energetic creativity.

You must excel in presentation, client facing work, and mentoring junior talent while managing multiple campaigns and collaborating across fluid teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in Creative Director role within a creative agency
• Experience delivering creative campaigns for PR (earned, owned and paid strategies)
• Experience in big ideas, brand activations, scripts, social content, and creative writing

Responsibilities

• Ideate and execute earned and social first creative activations
• Work directly with C-suite to mine for stories and opportunities
• Liaise with client teams to ensure alignment with client objectives
• Collaborate and concept across integrated teams and platforms
• Foster a culture of creative innovation, excellence, and accountability
• Mentor staff, provide and receive constructive feedback
• Remain current, sharing industry best practices, trends, and techniques

Skills

Creative direction and leadership

Big ideas and concept development

Social content & campaigns

Creative writing

Presentation and client-facing

Job description

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Creative Director with a mind for helping big brands and corporations navigate the modern world of media (paid, earned, and owned). This candidate is a highly conceptual strategic thinker, guiding award-winning campaigns across both corporate and consumer sectors. You will lead creative development while driving engagement within the earned, digital, and social media landscapes. This role requires a visionary leader who can seamlessly balance the nuances of corporate communication with the energetic creativity of healthcare-focused projects.

The Creative Director must have excellent presentation and client-facing skills along with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once. They are the consummate collaborator and comfortable working within fluid team structures, working both behind the scenes on big ideas, and managing and mentoring the work of assigned junior talent. This candidate will be responsible for developing campaigns for healthcare-focused work, and contributing to new business efforts as well.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ideate and Execute earned and social first creative activations
• Work directly with C-suite to mine for stories and opportunities
• Liaise with client teams to ensure alignment with client objectives
• Collaborate and concept across integrated teams and platforms
• Foster a culture of creative innovation, excellence, and accountability
• Mentor staff, receive and provide constructive feedback
• Remain current, sharing industry best practices, trends, and techniques

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years’ experience in Creative Director role within a creative agency
• Experience in big ideas, brand activations, scripts, social content, and creative writing
• Experience delivering creative campaigns for PR (earned, owned and paid strategies)
• A love and respect for true collaboration between teams, from concept to completion

Salary Range: $125,000-$165,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Salary Range: 125,000 – 165,000

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