Executive Creative Director (Washington) Job at Skill, Washington DC

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  • Skill
  • Washington DC

Job Description

Overview

Placement Type: Permanent

Salary: $200,000-220,000 Salary

Start Date: 01.19.2026

Agency Summary

A leading integrated communications firm built on the belief that strategic storytelling drives real-world change. We partner with global thought leaders, high-growth innovators, public affairs coalitions, and federal contractors to define their purpose and deliver measurable impact. Our model unites communications, brand strategy, creative development, digital media, and content production to deliver clarity, creativity, and results.

The Creative & Content Delivery division is seeking a senior leader to set the creative vision and elevate the influence and quality of work across all service lines.

Position Summary

The Executive Creative Director (ECD) is the senior-most creative leader, responsible for defining the creative vision, elevating the quality and consistency of integrated work, and advancing the agency's full-service creative practice.

This role requires a blend of visionary leadership, strategic client direction, and handson creative excellence. The ECD will integrate brand strategy, content, design, digital, and production teams into a cohesive creative force that drives measurable impact for clients across corporate, nonprofit, government, and mission-driven sectors.

Location: Major Metro Area, East Coast
Reports To: President, Chief Brand Officer
Status: Exempt-Salaried

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Creative & Agency Leadership

  • Define and champion the agency's overarching creative vision, aligning it with integrated storytelling, reputation-building, and earned-first content delivery.
  • Develop insight-driven creative platforms that integrate messaging, PR narratives, performance media, social strategy, and digital experiences.
  • Guide cross-functional teams in shaping campaign concepts, brand systems, web experiences, and thoughtleadership assets.
  • Serve as the senior creative thought partner to executive leadership on pricing models, creative processes, and longterm agency capabilities.

2. Senior Client & Campaign Direction

  • Act as the senior creative lead for enterprise clients across public affairs, government contractors, nonprofits, and missiondriven organizations.
  • Build trusted advisor relationships with C-suite leaders by translating complex challenges into clear, compelling, multi-channel creative solutions.
  • Lead major ideation sessions, campaign planning workshops, and brand discovery engagements.
  • Ensure creative recommendations align with the specific nuances of regulated environments and mission-based sensitivities.

3. Creative Oversight & Quality Control

  • Oversee all major creative deliverables, including brand identities, integrated campaigns, motion/film content, website experiences, and complex communication materials.
  • Review, refine, and elevate creative work from early concepting to final production to maintain consistent creative excellence.
  • Set quality benchmarks, creative guidelines, and visual/messaging standards across the agency's content delivery workflow.
  • Drive innovation by incorporating modern creative tools, AI-powered production workflows, and emerging media formats.

4. Team Leadership & Collaboration

  • Lead and mentor an interdisciplinary creative department (Social, Design, Production, Experience Design).
  • Create structured collaboration workflows that unite earned media, paid media, social, and strategy teams for seamless multi-channel campaign delivery.
  • Coach teams on how to articulate, elevate, and effectively sell creative ideas to senior client stakeholders.
  • Develop career pathways and resourcing models to scale the creative department's growth and capabilities.

Required Qualifications

  • Experience: 12+ years leading creative teams in an integrated agency environment (PR, brand, digital, content, or advertising).
  • Sector Success: Demonstrated success with enterprise clients across B2B, public affairs, public sector/federal, or missiondriven sectors.
  • Mastery: Expertise across a broad range of disciplines, including Branding, Content Strategy, Messaging, Digital Marketing, Web Design, and Integrated Campaign Development.
  • Client Comfort: High comfort level working with government, nonprofit, and missiondriven leadership, translating complex challenges into clear solutions.
  • Leadership: Proven ability to build, mentor, and scale diverse interdisciplinary creative teams with humility and a commitment to clarity and integrity.
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Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time, For contractors,

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