Overview As Creative Director of Art & Design, you will lead a large team to deliver premium brand identity, packaging, and integrated campaigns. You shape the creative vision across multiple accounts while aligning with business goals and a Human First mindset. You will collaborate with strategy and production to navigate regulatory constraints and ensure high-quality, impactful work. This role combines leadership, design excellence, and client-facing influence at the executive level.
Compensation / Benefits- hybrid work model
- competitive benefits package
Responsibilities- Lead and mentor a large team of art directors, designers, and copywriters to sustain creative excellence
- Own the creative direction and execution across multiple accounts, delivering brand identity, packaging, and campaigns
- Present concepts to executive-level clients with clarity and conviction to build trust
- Collaborate with strategy, account management, and production to ensure work is strategically sound and aligned with objectives
- Navigate regulatory constraints to deliver compliant and standout creative solutions
- Uphold premium design standards ensuring consistency and quality across deliverables
- Lead concept development across print, OOH, digital, experiential, and activations to build cohesive brand experiences
Key requirements- Proven Creative Director experience in an agency
- Strong portfolio in brand identity, packaging, and campaign design
- Experience managing large creative teams
- Excellent client-facing skills, including presenting to C-suite stakeholders
- Comfort with tobacco industry accounts
- Willingness to travel
- Strategic problem-solver
- Empathetic leadership and trust-building
- Collaborative and inclusive mindset
- Brand identity design
- Packaging design
- Campaign design
