Creative Director

Adelphi Group; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global maternity and parental leave

Competitive benefits packages

Vacation, compassionate leave, and fle

Early Dismissal Fridays

12 affinity groups

Internal learning and development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Critical Mass is seeking a Creative Director - Copy in Los Angeles to set the bar for ideas, craft, and culture. You lead the creative vision for accounts, guide multidisciplinary teams, and defend work with conviction.

You will mentor creatives, champion the use of AI tools, and drive high-visibility projects from concept to delivery. Your role requires a bold portfolio and a relentless commitment to craft, with the ability to present and defend work to senior stakeholders and nurture strong

Qualifications

• 6+ years of creative leadership experience in an agency or equivalent.
• Portfolio shows strong conceptual thinking and craft across brand and campaign work.
• Experience presenting, defending, and selling creative work to senior clients.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools in a creative context.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop junior creatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative vision for accounts with an original, attention-grabbing POV.
• Actively teach and apply AI tools to elevate craft.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams toward a single, cohesive vision.
• Challenge stakeholders when the work or thinking needs improvement.
• Oversee high-visibility projects from concept through delivery, protecting the idea.

Skills

Creative leadership

Portfolio quality

Brand & campaign thinking

Stakeholder presentation

Mentoring multidisciplinary teams

AI tools literacy

New business pitches

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Agency:

Critical Mass

Job Function:

Creative

Job Subfunction:

Creative Direction

Job Description:

CREATIVE DIRECTOR - COPY

At Critical Mass, the Creative Director - Copy sets the bar.You’rethe sharpest point of view in the room, and you have the standards to prove it.

You push work untilit’soriginal enough to matter. You sell it with conviction, and youdon’tback down whenit’sworth defending. That instinct extends everywhere — the work, the culture, the brief that needs to be challenged.

Your taste is deep, built from a genuine curiosity about art, culture, and the world. Craftisn’ta checkbox for you;it’sclose to an obsession, and it shows in everything you touch.

You Will

Ideas & Creative Direction

• Lead the creative vision for your accounts, setting a point of viewthat’soriginal, unexpected, and impossible to ignore
• Actively use and teach AI tools across your team, ensuring they elevate craft rather than replace it
• Lead and inspire multidisciplinary teams, guiding creatives, strategists, and account partners toward a single, cohesive vision
• Challenge stakeholders — clients and internal teams alike — when the work or the thinking deserves better
• Oversee high-visibility projects from concept through delivery, protecting the idea at every stage

Selling & Communication

• Be the creative voice on your accounts. Present, defend, and sell ideas with clarity and conviction, and have the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders when the work demands it
• Lead new business efforts, pitching ideas that win and set the tone for future work

Craft & Execution

• Set and protect the creative standard across every account you touch, ensuring nothing ships thatisn’tup to it
• Own final creative quality across brand and campaign work, from big idea to finished execution
• Bring storytelling instincts to every brief, understanding how to build narratives that connect emotionally and culturally

Account & Project Leadership

• Serve as point of escalation for both clients and internal teams. Find the right path forward without compromising the work
• Balance ambition with pragmatism, knowing when to push and when to protect timelines and budgets

Team & Culture

• Inspire a culture of ambition and craft, where good is never good enough
• Mentor creatives at every level, developing the next generation of creative leaders
• Represent Critical Mass in the industry — through award recognition, speaking opportunities, and creative reputation

You Have

• 6+ years of creative leadership experience, ideally in an agency or equivalent environment
• A portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking and craft across brand and campaign work
• A sharp, informed aesthetic sensibility, shaped by deep engagement with culture, art, fashion, film, music, and the world
• Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams
• Proven experience presenting, selling, and defending creative work to senior clients and stakeholders
• Hands-on experience with AI creative tools, with the ability to teach and guide others in using them well
• Experience leading or contributing significantly to new business pitches
• A genuine passion for the craft, and the relentlessness to protect it

What We Offer:

• Global maternity and parental leave.
• Competitive benefits packages.
• Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days.
• Access to online services for families and new parents.
• Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday).
• 12 affinity groups.
• Internal learning and development programs.
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts.

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.In an effort todo so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Los Angeles: $175,000-$230,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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