Director, Creative & Brand

Role overview

Senior creative leadership role heading a multidisciplinary in-house agency for a high-growth Canadian technology company.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the brand’s creative expression across channels and customer touchpoints.
• Set a high creative standard and encourage thoughtful experimentation and smart risk-taking.
• Lead four disciplines: copywriting, design, video/motion, and creative operations/project management.
• Coach creative leaders and contributors while establishing clear expectations and priorities.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, PR/Communications and Lifecycle Marketing.
• Present creative strategy to executives and tie creative choices to business outcomes.
• Improve workflow, prioritization and resource allocation with Creative Operations.
• Decide when work belongs in-house versus with agencies, freelancers or specialists.
• Explore AI and emerging creative technology to improve velocity without sacrificing quality.
• Steward the brand across campaigns, web/digital, events, community, influencers, podcasts, video and special initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive creative, brand or integrated-marketing experience with meaningful leadership responsibility.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across design, copy, video, motion and/or creative operations.
• Track record evolving brands in high-growth or scale-up environments.
• Strong creative judgment and experience leading an in-house agency/internal creative organization.
• Executive presence and strong partnership skills with senior marketing stakeholders.
• Experience balancing internal resources with external agencies and production partners.
• Curiosity about AI and emerging creative technology.

Compensation and work model

Canada remote/hybrid. Public salary range: CAD 190,000–240,000.