09 Sep
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twentysix
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Vancouver
09 Sep
twentysix
Vancouver
What You'll Be Doing
Creative Leadership & Vision
- Set and champion the overall creative vision and standard for AntiSocial.
- Lead creative across major accounts, campaigns, pitches, and new business opportunities.
- Push teams toward work that is distinctive, culturally relevant, strategically grounded, and effective.
- Ensure ideas translate naturally across social platforms while having the potential to extend into broader integrated campaigns and experiences.
- Stay deeply connected to culture, emerging platforms, creators, technology, and changing audience behaviours.
- Build a creative culture where experimentation, curiosity, collaboration, and ambitious thinking are encouraged.
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across copy, art direction, design, content, and social creative.
- Provide clear, constructive creative direction while giving teams the space and confidence to develop their own ideas.
- Help define the structure, capabilities, and talent AntiSocial needs as the company continues to grow.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen the team through hiring, development, freelance talent, and external creative partners.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment where people can do the strongest work of their careers.
Clients & New Business
- Act as a senior creative partner to key clients, building trust and confidently presenting and defending creative thinking.
- Translate client and business challenges into compelling creative opportunities.
- Partner with Strategy and Account leadership to develop strong creative briefs and ensure strategic thinking carries through to execution.
- Play a leadership role in pitches and new business, helping shape the creative story and representing AntiSocial in the room.
- Build relationships that position AntiSocial as a trusted creative partner rather than simply an executional social agency.
Creative Excellence & Execution
- Oversee work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery.
- Partner closely with Production to ensure ambitious ideas are executed at a high level while remaining realistic about budgets, timelines, and platforms.
- Balance brand-building creativity with the speed, volume, and responsiveness required by social.
- Raise the quality of both large campaign work and everyday content – understanding that every touchpoint contributes to the brand.
- Know when to push for craft and polish and when speed, relevance, and authenticity matter more.
What You’ll Bring
- Significant creative leadership experience within an advertising, creative, social, or integrated agency environment.
- Proven experience at the Creative Director, Group Creative Director, Executive Creative Director, or equivalent level.
- A portfolio of standout creative work across social, digital, content, and integrated campaigns.
- Deep understanding of social platforms and how creative behaviour differs across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels.
- Robust conceptual thinking with the ability to move between big campaign ideas and fast, culturally relevant social content.
- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams.
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to sell ambitious creative thinking to senior clients and stakeholders.
- Experience leading pitches and contributing to new business growth.
- A robust understanding of production and the ability to guide ideas from concept through execution.
- An active interest in culture, creators, entertainment, technology, design, and the constantly evolving social landscape.
Additional Info
- Monday - Thursday in office (Fridays are remote optional)
- Flexible time off, including paid vacation and sick days
- Consistent culture and team-building events
- Employee recognition and incentive programs
- Seasonal celebrations and gatherings throughout the year
- Office lunches
- Branded company swag
- Access to industry events, learning opportunities, and non-profit outreaches
- Dog-friendly offices
- Unlimited coffee, drinks, and snacks
- Flex work and travel options
- Comprehensive extended health benefits
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📌 Executive Creative Director - AntiSocial (Vancouver)
🏢 twentysix
📍 Vancouver