Creative Director, Campaigns

This is a Freelance Job

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Creative Director, Campaigns (Freelance)

Position Overview
Saylor seeks an innovative, sharp Creative Director, Campaign with experience in crafting best-in-market creative social campaigns for global brands. They are masters of content strategy, social media creative, stunt and content ideation, digital content producing, and overall creative development and leadership. The ideal candidate will be relentlessly creative in all things social media, digital audience experience and most importantly–culture. They are collaborative, strategic, and obsessed with creating the most competitive and impactful marketing campaigns. They are best in the business client whisperers and presenters.

This contract role will manage a Copywriter and Art Director or Designer in shaping our creative efforts on pitches, accounts, and digital marketing campaigns for brand and entertainment clients. This person will be responsible for leading all things creative for an upcoming campaign, team members, and meeting with clients.

The Creative Director will be the strong visionary on the agency’s creative perspective within the competitive landscape. They will be the lead on concept initiatives, with collaboration with the Design and AV Editorial teams to maintain alignment and consistency throughout the production process. Externally, you'll be client facing and will help ensure their vision is executed. Internally, you'll collaborate across all teams at Saylor – partnering with Strategy, Accounts, and Social to elevate individual assets and entire campaigns. Throughout, you'll ensure all creative aligns with strategy and brand voice through copy, design, and execution.

About You
A seemingly bottomless pit of fresh ideas and strong creative opinions, you have a deep well of references and experiences to pull from and you always have your thumb on the pulse of what’s clicking with audiences and culture. You’re a social media wizard. You’re not afraid to share your ideas in a room – whether it’s with internal teams or clients – and you enthusiastically build up your teammate’s ideas through collaboration, making sure everyone is on the same page strategically.

Flexibility and a positive attitude come naturally to you, and you create open and symbiotic environments conducive to generating stellar ideas. Curiosity, kindness, empathy, and playfulness are core tenets that you value and freely dispense. You thrive in a startup environment and are enthusiastic about building new processes and team structure in order to support a high level of creative output. You are organized, professional, and diligent about best-in-class creative delivery.

You feel confident and comfortable with the intricacies of social media marketing, with experience supporting or guiding high-profile creative projects from ideation to execution. You love a pitch deck and working with Social, Strategy, and Accounts to create a cohesive, unique campaign strategy. You feel secure talking with clients about their vision and needs, offering creative solutions that make them want to come back for more award-winning campaigns.

You may have been any of the following in your career: a well-rounded copywriter who always had kick-ass ideas, a social media strategist who deeply understood production, a community manager who found fresh ways to connect to fandoms, a creative producer who was always one step ahead with big ideas or some combination of it all!

Location and Salary
This is a freelance role based in Los Angeles with an hourly rate of $65-$85 per hour depending on experience. There will be occasions when in-office presence, at either our Los Angeles HQ or a client’s office, is required based on the needs of specific accounts.

Overall Responsibilities:
• Award-winning campaign ideation for a global brand to make a wave in culture.
• Taking creative guidelines from and ensuring all creative is executed accordingly.
• Attend client meetings and present creative ideas.