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
- Executive Creative Director at KOHO defining the creative vision and leading a multidisciplinary team across campaigns and storytelling. Focus on integrating creative excellence with business impact.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion KOHO's multichannel creative vision across campaigns, product storytelling, content, events, and social and be accountable for business outcomes
- Concept and create key pieces yourself when the work demands it, you are a "player/coach"
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary creative team, including art directors, designers, copywriters, and producers
- Set the creative standard for all work, providing clear direction and feedback across both art direction and copy
- Work with product marketing to translate briefs into powerful creative ideas
- Oversee photo and video shoots alongside the Studios team and freelance production crews
- Brief and manage freelance talent and agency partners during campaign surges
- Help establish creative processes, review cadences, and quality standards as the department scales
- Present concepts and creative work to senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction
- Build the systems, processes, and review structures that enable high-quality creative output at scale
- Oversee external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and photo/video shoots as needed
- Set art direction and copy direction for campaigns, brand, web, product, video, events, and social
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience leading creative teams and organizations in ambitious, fast-paced environments with significant time at agencies or in-house teams that think like agencies
- A portfolio that shows conceptual range across both copy and art direction; big ideas that work across mediums
- Experience working across the marketing stack, with a solid understanding of the overall marketing department’s objectives (not just creative)
- Ability to collaborate with product design to ensure consistency and design cohesiveness
- Experience directing video and motion work, not just static and copy
- Someone who is actively utilizing AI in their creative process today
- Proven ability to direct and elevate writers, art directors and designers
- Deep expertise across copywriting, advertising, campaigns, content, and production
- Strong creative instincts with a portfolio demonstrating conceptual excellence across multiple channels and mediums
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, developing talent, and creating environments where creatives can do their best work
- Strong organizational and operational skills, with the ability to structure teams, allocate resources, and establish effective ways of working
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience directing video, motion, digital, and integrated campaign work
- A strong point of view on culture, storytelling, and brand building
Benefits
- Competitive compensation & equity
- Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure
- Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat
- Access to coaching & growth programs
- Parental top-up & leave policies
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development
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