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Media Cause · 2 months ago

VP, Creative

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Media Cause is an award-winning, mission-driven marketing and fundraising agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact. The VP, Creative will lead the creative and content departments, setting the creative vision and ensuring the integration of audience insights into impactful creative outputs for nonprofit clients.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Provide high-level creative direction on the agency’s most strategic and high-profile accounts

Champion bold, innovative thinking that is deeply aligned with client missions and performance goals

Lead creative strategy and storytelling during new business pitches and major presentations

Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and all agency team members on creative direction

Encourage and guide creative experimentation that leads to tangible business impact, new service offerings, and measurable improvements in client results

Oversee the Creative (Design) and Content teams, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and integration

Lead, inspire, and mentor a diverse team of creative professionals, ensuring they thrive and grow in their craft

Partner with team leads to set clear goals, performance standards, and career development pathways

Anticipate evolving creative skill needs and partner with leadership to plan hiring, training, and team growth accordingly

Model and reinforce a respectful, inclusive, and accountable culture across teams; proactively address cultural challenges and celebrate contributions

Define and evolve our creative service offerings to meet the changing needs of the nonprofit sector and stay ahead of industry trends

Develop and optimize creative processes and workflows to ensure operational excellence, quality, and efficiency

Implement performance-focused creative strategies that drive measurable impact for our clients

Collaborate closely with Account Leads and other Service Leads (Brand Strategy, Campaign Strategy, Media, Fundraising, Data, etc.) to ensure seamless integration across disciplines

Partner with business development to shape new offerings, support strategic growth initiatives, and new business pitches

Ensure creative excellence and consistency across all client touchpoints

Ensure consistent adoption of agency-wide processes, such as communication protocols, time tracking, and project management systems; lead improvements that enhance clarity, efficiency, and accountability

Balance client needs, team capacity, and financial realities to ensure the creative function operates sustainably and efficiently

Partner with senior leadership to drive creative-led business growth, including scoping, pricing, and identifying opportunities to expand client relationships and agency impact

Lead the integration of emerging creative and cultural trends across client portfolios, ensuring our strategies remain insight-driven, relevant, and future-focused

Qualification

Creative leadershipNonprofit marketingMultidisciplinary team managementStrategic mindsetPresentation skillsCollaborationCommunicationCreativityLeadership

Required

10+ years of creative leadership experience, ideally within an agency environment

Demonstrated expertise in leading multidisciplinary creative teams (design, content) and managing senior creative talent

Strong track record of developing and selling high-level creative concepts, particularly in new business contexts

Deep understanding of nonprofit marketing and communications—nonprofit sector experience is required

Proven ability to balance creativity with performance, delivering work that inspires audiences and achieves measurable results

Exceptional communication, presentation, and leadership skills

Strategic mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion for social impact

Solid portfolio of work across a variety of digital platforms

Check your ego at the door: you're a team player, ready to jump into any request, and eager to support the agency in any way possible

Collaborative, curious, and a genuinely good human

More than comfortable communicating and collaborating with copywriters, designers, developers, and your account team partners in a way that elevates everyone's work and builds confidence across the team

Able to objectively tell a good idea from a great one, even (and especially) when it's not your own

Able to thoughtfully design and craft the story for client and agency presentation decks, taking content and flow into account as much as the visual aesthetic

Comfortable presenting your work to clients, not only talking through the visual execution but also the strategy, insight, and approach behind it

Proactively seek out new perspectives, ideas, and opportunities to bring to the creative team and the agency as a whole, to continually expand our work and thinking

Excel at juggling multiple projects and deadlines, but also know your own pace and capacity and aren't afraid to speak up if/when you need help

Willing to get crafty and understand that, regardless of budget (nonprofits don't always have a lot), it's our job to figure out how to do great work

Genuinely driven by a passion to make a difference, not just make money, although we're here to help you do both

Benefits

Family first work environment with flexible work from home options to accommodate personal obligations

Robust health, dental, and vision benefit plans for you and yours

401 (k) & retirement planning

Agency-wide profit sharing

Unlimited personal time off (with an enforced 3-week minimum every year)

2x/year mental health Fridays to reset and recharge

Flexible remote work: We’re open to candidates located anywhere in the US and support work getting done wherever it works best for the employee

$200/month health & wellness stipend to strengthen your body and/or mind

$1,000/year individual professional development stipend to cover any education/training that you want to pursue to grow in your role (or as a human!)

Agency commitment to building and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive agency (and we hold ourselves accountable)

Transparent & equitable career growth opportunities: Clear path for advancement and opportunity for anyone to raise their hand for promotion every 6 months

The ability to work with genuinely fantastic humans who care deeply about the work we do and each other

Yearly donations made to employees' nonprofit of choice to celebrate their Media Cause work anniversaries

A culture of volunteering and giving back to the communities we work in and to the issues we care about around the world