Everything Bagel · 1 day ago
Associate Creative Director
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
7+ years expEverything Bagel is a company that builds and supports breakthrough brands across various sectors. The Associate Creative Director (Design) is responsible for leading creative direction, ensuring quality across client portfolios, and translating client context into actionable briefs while mentoring team members.
Marketing & Advertising
Responsibilities
Own creative direction and final sign-off for an assigned portfolio of clients
Serve as the primary creative partner to clients (alignment, expectations, presentations as needed)
Partner with PM/Client Services to manage prioritization, timelines, and scope
Attend client meetings as needed (kickoffs, planning, reviews)
Convert meetings and client inputs into clear briefs that include: objective, audience, offer, deliverables, channel specs, references, constraints, success metrics
Identify ambiguity early and propose options/solutions to unblock execution
Provide clear, prioritized, actionable feedback to designers and Art Directors
Ensure consistency with brand standards and channel performance best practices
Maintain quality across high-volume marketing output (web, email, ads, organic)
Implement and maintain a tiered QA system: Designer self-QA → AD review → ACD final review
Reduce revision cycles by improving upstream direction and clarity
Escalate only high-risk work per agreed rubric (VIP accounts, new campaigns, strategic landing pages)
Mentor Art Directors to strengthen direction, critique, and decision-making
Coach designers on craft and execution standards
Run weekly creative calibration sessions to ensure consistent output and alignment
Build and maintain templates and standards for: briefs, feedback, file naming/versioning, handoffs, QA checklists
Identify process improvements that reduce rework and increase throughput as the company scales
Reduced 'directional miss' rate (major rework due to wrong concept/strategy/context)
Improved first-pass approval rate (Designer → AD → ACD)
Reduced average revision rounds per asset type
Improved on-time delivery rate and reduced cycle time
Fewer escalations to Head of Creative over time (without quality decline)
Higher internal clarity scores on briefs and feedback
Qualification
Required
7+ years professional design experience (agency or high-velocity marketing environment preferred)
2+ years in a lead role directing designers and/or Art Directors
Strong portfolio across digital marketing: paid social/performance ads, email campaigns, web/landing pages, organic social
Excellent briefing and critique skills (can articulate 'why' and give actionable guidance)
Strong client communication skills, including the ability to push back constructively
Ability to lead remotely with dependable ET overlap
Figma (required)
Portfolio link (required)
Preferred
CRO/landing page optimization familiarity
Experience with performance testing/iteration cycles
Experience leading distributed teams
Experience partnering closely with Paid Media teams
Adobe Creative Suite (helpful)
Slack + Google Workspace
Project management tool (Asana/ClickUp/Monday/etc.)
Loom or async review tools
Company
Everything Bagel
Rapid Marketing Team That Fits With Yours. 🤝 Grow Your Brand’s Revenue by minimum of 25% within the first 2 Months! Everything Bagel is not an agency.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Gabriel Wolff
Managing Partner
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