Executive Creative Director

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Agency

BBDO

Job Function

Creative

Job Subfunction

Creative Direction

We are seeking an Executive Creative Director (ECD) to lead the agency's creative vision, inspire world-class creative talent, and drive the development of breakthrough ideas for some of the world's most ambitious brands. As the senior-most creative leader, the ECD is responsible for shaping the agency's creative reputation, elevating the quality of work across all accounts, and ensuring every campaign delivers both cultural impact and business results.

The ideal candidate is a proven advertising leader with a track record of creating iconic campaigns, winning new business, building high-performing creative teams, and producing work that earns industry recognition and drives client growth.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Establish and champion the agency's creative vision, standards, and culture.
• Lead the development of breakthrough creative ideas and integrated campaigns across TV, video, social, digital, experiential, print, content, and emerging platforms.
• Inspire creative teams to deliver bold, culturally relevant work that breaks through and generates conversation.
• Raise the quality of creative output across all agency clients and assignments.
• Ensure every idea is strategically grounded, creatively ambitious, and flawlessly executed.
• Foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, innovation, and craft thrive.

Client Leadership

• Serve as the agency's senior creative voice and strategic partner to key clients.
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with client stakeholders.
• Lead high-profile creative presentations and confidently sell transformative ideas.
• Partner with clients to solve business challenges through innovative creative thinking.
• Navigate client feedback while protecting the integrity of the work and championing great ideas.

Agency Growth & New Business

• Lead the creative development of agency pitches and new business opportunities.
• Help shape agency positioning, thought leadership, and marketplace reputation.
• Develop pitch-winning ideas that demonstrate the agency's creative and strategic capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships through innovative thinking and expanded creative solutions.
• Serve as a visible ambassador for the agency within the industry and creative community.

Talent & Team Development

• Recruit, mentor, and retain top creative talent across all disciplines.
• Develop and coach Group Creative Directors, Creative Directors, Associate Creative Directors, Art Directors, and Copywriters.
• Foster a culture of mentorship, inclusivity, and creative excellence.
• Create an environment where teams are empowered to take creative risks and produce career-defining work.
• Champion career development and succession planning within the creative organization.
• 15+ years of experience within a leading advertising agency environment.
• Proven experience leading large creative organizations and managing multiple agency clients simultaneously.
• Portfolio demonstrating award-winning, culturally impactful, and business-driving creative work.
• Deep expertise developing integrated campaigns across television, digital, social, experiential, and emerging channels.
• Strong understanding of brand building, consumer behavior, communications strategy, and modern marketing ecosystems.
• Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated success leading major new business pitches and agency growth initiatives.
• Experience overseeing multidisciplinary creative teams across copy, art, design, content, and production.
• Ability to balance creative ambition with client objectives and commercial outcomes.

$350K+

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