The Cake is hiring: Creative Director in Rockville

Role: Creative Director

Job Type: Full-time Direct Hire

Rate: $100,000-$120,000

Start Date: Interviewing now

Location: Hybrid in Rockville, MD

Our Agency client is in search of a Creative Director to join their team!

This Creative Director role will be a hybrid role requiring you to be onsite 3 days per week.

The primary responsibilities for this Creative Director role include:

• Inspiring deep cross-functional relationships that ultimately build stronger creatives delivering extraordinary work for clients
• Supporting the development of structured approaches to assess complex and high priority strategic initiatives with cross functional stakeholders
• Managing the creative team consisting of creatives, art directors, writers, and content producers per project
• Diagnosing business challenges, articulating the team’s role in solving for business and client needs, and then aligning teams to the task
• Creating and defining the process and procedures to support the creative team and creative needs of the company
• Managing team assignments for a wide variety of projects and accountable for the team’s utilization
• Leading a creative team to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions that move the needle forward for clients and their audiences
• Motivating a large creative team to deliver both quantity and quality of output while maintaining strong morale.
• Managing of direct reports, including performance reviews and professional development, compensation decisions, improvement initiatives, and other personnel actions
• Scaling and driving the internal development and growth of the team
• Managing creative team’s progress on all projects and proposal
• Seeking out innovation and examples of greatness throughout the industry

To be considered for this role the successful Creative Director must have:

• 6+ years of experience leading and developing creative teams for large scale events and campaigns
• 6+ years of team leadership role agency or corporate
• 10+ years managing revenue generating projects
• 12+ years of experience in a creative role