Join Our Talent Pool: Creative Director

Idea Peddler; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Generous paid time off

Tech kit

Health club stipend

Catered weekly meal

Educational opportunities

Job summary

A creative agency in Austin, Texas seeks a Creative Director to lead the agency's creative vision and mentor the team. This role involves defining breakthrough campaigns, maintaining high standards of work, and managing client relationships effectively. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with excellent creative instincts and a passion for collaboration. The position promises a supportive culture with strong benefits like health insurance, 401k matching, and generous paid time off.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading integrated campaigns from concept through execution.
• Exceptional creative instincts and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong mentoring skills for developing creative talent.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the creative vision across the agency.
• Lead and mentor copywriters, designers, and other creative talent.
• Present creative concepts confidently to clients.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Client presentation

Team building

Job description

We’re always on the lookout for creative, passionate, and talented individuals to join our team! While this is a pipeline position, applying now means you’ll be added to our talent pool—so when the right opportunity opens up, you’ll be first in line.

The Creative Director sets the creative vision for Idea Peddler and the brands we partner with. This role is responsible for elevating the standard of work across the agency—ensuring that every idea is strategically grounded, culturally relevant, and executed with excellence.

You will lead and inspire the creative team, shape big ideas across integrated campaigns, and serve as a trusted creative partner to clients and agency leadership. The Creative Director is both a visionary and a builder—driving bold thinking while ensuring disciplined execution.

What You’ll Do

Creative Vision & Leadership

• Define and champion the creative vision across the agency.
• Lead the development of breakthrough, integrated campaigns across digital, social, media, print, experiential, and emerging platforms.
• Ensure all creative work aligns with strategic objectives and delivers measurable business impact.
• Set and maintain a high bar for concept, craft, and execution.

Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop copywriters, designers, art directors, and other creative talent.
• Provide clear, constructive feedback that elevates work and grows careers.
• Build a culture of curiosity, accountability, and no-B.S. collaboration.
• Participate in hiring and shaping the future creative team.

Client Partnership

• Serve as senior creative lead in client relationships.
• Present and defend creative concepts with confidence and clarity.
• NAVIGATE feedback and refine work while protecting the integrity of ideas.
• Identify opportunities to expand creative scope and deepen partnerships.

Strategic Collaboration

• Partner closely with Strategy, Media, Social, PR, and Account teams to ensure creative is integrated and effective.
• Translate complex business challenges into clear, compelling creative direction.
• Contribute to new business pitches with big thinking and differentiated ideas.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee workflow and ensure creative output meets timelines and budgets.
• Balance ambition with feasibility, maintaining efficiency without compromising quality.
• Continually evaluate and improve creative processes.

Thought Leadership

• Stay ahead of cultural, media, and design trends.
• Elevate Idea Peddler’s reputation for creative excellence.
• Inspire innovation while remaining grounded in business outcomes.

Who You Are

• A bold, strategic thinker with exceptional creative instincts.
• Experienced leading integrated campaigns from concept through execution.
• Confident in the room, persuasive in presentation, and calm under pressure.
• A builder of teams and culture, not just campaigns.
• Clear, decisive, and accountable.
• Motivated by doing meaningful work with people you respect.

About Idea Peddler

What’s it like to work at Idea Peddler? We’re the rehab for big agency life. If you love doing smart and thoughtful work, but hate the big agency B.S., Idea Peddler might be the place for you. With appreciative and purpose-driven clients, a caring and transparent team culture, and true work‑life balance, Idea Peddler is a place where you can thrive based on your own drive; a true meritocracy.

In addition to having the chops to concept and execute campaigns flawlessly, curiosity, adventure, and a damn good attitude will carry you far here. We are a team of self‑starters who hold dear our core values of adventure, accountability, discernment, motivation and no B.S. Full‑time members of our team are rewarded for hard work and have immediate access to a robust benefits package that includes health, vision and dental benefits; 401k matching; generous paid time off; tech kit; health club stipend; cell phone credit; catered weekly meal; recurring educational opportunities and more.

Idea Peddler, founded in 2011, is a full‑service agency operating on a hybrid work model that offers big agency expertise with boutique agency service. We create bespoke campaigns that deliver on clients’ unique goals and follow through with exceptional execution. In uncertain times, ideas win. Ideas that inspire. Ideas that shift behavior. And ideas that create growth. Idea Peddler holds true to the promise of doing good work for nice people. www.ideapeddler.com

Idea Peddler is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.