10 Sep
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Jobtailor
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Toronto
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 distinctive, culturally relevant, strategically grounded, and effective work
Ensure ideas translate naturally across social platforms and can extend into broader integrated campaigns and experiences
Stay connected to culture, emerging platforms, creators, technology, and changing audience behaviours
Build a culture of experimentation, curiosity, collaboration, and ambitious thinking
Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across copy, art direction, design, content, and social creative
Define team structure, capabilities, and talent needs as the company grows
Strengthen the team through hiring, development, freelance talent, and external creative partners
Act as a senior creative partner to key clients and present and defend creative thinking
Translate client and business challenges into creative opportunities
Partner with Strategy and Account leadership on creative briefs and execution
Lead pitches and new business efforts
Oversee work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery
Partner with Production to ensure ideas are executed at a high level within budgets, timelines, and platform constraints
Balance brand-building creativity with the speed, volume, and responsiveness required by social
Raise the quality of large campaigns and everyday content Requirements - 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, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels
- Strong conceptual thinking, including 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 ability to sell ambitious creative thinking to senior clients and stakeholders
- Experience leading pitches and contributing to new business growth
- Solid understanding of production and ability to guide ideas from concept through execution
- Active interest in culture, creators, entertainment, technology, design, and the evolving social landscape Core Competencies Demonstrates significant creative leadership in advertising and integrated agency environments, with a strong portfolio showcasing standout work across social, digital, and content campaigns. Capable of leading and developing multidisciplinary teams while effectively translating client challenges into innovative creative solutions. Highest-signal resume keywords - Creative Leadership Experience
- Multidisciplinary Team Development
- Strong Presentation Skills
- Social Platform Expertise
- Conceptual Thinking Soft Skills - Mentoring
- Collaboration
- Curiosity
- Ambitious Thinking Industry Keywords - Advertising
- Creative Agency
- Integrated Campaigns
- Cultural Relevance
- Emerging Platforms Tools & Technologies - Social Media Platforms
- TikTok
- Instagram
- YouTube
📌 Executive Creative Director (Toronto)
🏢 Jobtailor
📍 Toronto