Creative Director shaping Brainrider's scalable creative production network in Canada. Ensuring brand consistency, quality standards, and collaboration across clients and global studio partners.
About the role
- Senior Creative Manager leading performance design in a B2B marketing agency. Overseeing creative quality and managing team development in a remote role.
Responsibilities
- Own the creative vision and quality standard for the Performance Design department
- Ensure all work meets both craft and conversion benchmarks — great looking and built to perform
- Review and elevate creative across paid social, display, video, and landing page formats
- Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of designers, project managers, and motion contractors
- Set clear expectations, foster accountability, and build a culture where creative people do their best work
- Identify growth opportunities for team members and actively invest in their development
- Partner closely with paid media and client success teams to ensure creative is data-informed from the start
- Represent the department in new business pitches and client conversations
- Articulate the value of Performance Design as a strategic capability, not just an execution function
- Own and manage the department P&L
- Monitor margins, manage resourcing decisions with financial impact in mind, and ensure the department operates as a profitable, scalable business unit
- Think and operate like an owner
- Lead adoption of AI creative tools across the team
- Identify where emerging technologies can sharpen output and improve efficiency
- Build AI into real production workflows — not just as a proof of concept
Requirements
- 5+ years in creative roles within performance marketing, paid media, or growth-focused agency environments
- Proven track record managing creative teams and balancing creative quality with business outcomes
- Comfortable presenting department strategy to VPs and CMOs just as much as reviewing a creative brief
- Strong understanding of how a creative department operates as a business
- Direct experience managing or having visibility into P&L, margin, and resourcing decisions
- Hands-on experience with AI creative tools — generative image, AI-powered video, design analytics, or similar
- Knows how to integrate AI into real production workflows, not just demo it
- Strong communicator who can translate creative thinking into business language
- Track record of building trust with both creative practitioners and senior leadership
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision plans, disability, and life insurance coverage for you and your family that fit your lifestyle
- Including a 100% employer-paid plan for you and a 50% employer contribution for your dependents
- Access to certified therapists through Spring Health, membership to Headspace
- Gympass
- Unlimited PTO (2-week minimum), Paid Company Holidays, Your Birthday Off, End of Year Recharge (Closed December 24 - January 1), Paid Parental Leave
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 3% company match
- Annual bonus based on tenure, which scales in total amount over time
- Annual Anniversary Trip with peers and executive leadership for fun and entertainment!
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