Job Description
Our client is looking for a Creative Director to join their team.
***Soccer industry experience is required for this role. They want someone who has worked directly with a major soccer organization***
You must have ambition to help shape soccer's place in culture at a pivotal moment, leading up to the 2026 World Cup
This is a hybrid role, onsite in NYC on Wednesdays.
Responsibilities:
-Help shape our clients voice, vision, and creative output
-Move seamlessly between commercial briefs, original content, and cultural projects.
-Help redefine how brands, fans, and culture connect through soccer in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
-Lead big, integrated creative ideas across branded campaigns, original formats, editorial projects, and cultural moments.
- Blend strategy, creativity, storytelling, and execution to make work that resonates with fans and partners.
-Elevate and evolve our clients creative standards, ensuring everything we make is distinctive, relevant, and culture-defining.
- Build strong client partnerships while also championing our own editorial and original IP.
-Inspire and mentor teams across disciplines, from writers and editors to producers and designers.
-Own the development of integrated ideas across branded campaigns, original shows, cultural activations, and editorial projects.
-Push creative boundaries while ensuring work is strategically sharp and culturally resonant.
- Set a high bar for creative excellence, guiding teams from concept through delivery.
- Lead creative across brand partnerships, shaping strategies and ideas that connect brands authentically to soccer culture.
- Partner with editorial and production teams to co-develop original IP and formats that grow our clients audience
-Oversee concepting, scripting, design direction, and storytelling frameworks across multiple platforms.
- Stay ahead of cultural and audience trends in soccer, media, and youth culture; build initiatives that elevate underrepresented voices and communities within soccer.
-Ensure all creative output reflects the diverse, global, and inclusive nature of the game.
- Identify opportunities to expand partnerships through creative thinking and execution.
- Represent our clients creative point of view in pitches, presentations, and industry forums.
- Mentor and inspire creative talent across the business, ensuring career growth and high performance.
- Foster collaboration between creative, editorial, production, and commercial teams.
-Champion processes and workflows that enable world-class creative work at scale.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of creative leadership in media, entertainment, culture, or brand environments.
-Strong portfolio spanning campaigns, original content, and culturally relevant projects.
-Experience delivering top-notch campaigns
-Proven ability to deliver integrated ideas across film, digital, social, experiential, and editorial.
-Deep knowledge of North American soccer culture and its intersections with youth, fashion, music, and global communities.
-Strong leadership skills: able to set vision, mentor teams, and inspire clients.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to sell bold ideas internally and externally.
- Entrepreneurial mindset. Eager to experiment, build new formats, and drive cultural impact.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.
Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
pamela.koenig@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : PK3-1878710 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***
Pamela Koenig - Senior Recruiter
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 09/26/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
Copyright 1999 - 2025. CreativeCircle, Inc. All rights reserved.
Our client is looking for a Creative Director to join their team.
***Soccer industry experience is required for this role. They want someone who has worked directly with a major soccer organization***
You must have ambition to help shape soccer's place in culture at a pivotal moment, leading up to the 2026 World Cup
This is a hybrid role, onsite in NYC on Wednesdays.
Responsibilities:
-Help shape our clients voice, vision, and creative output
-Move seamlessly between commercial briefs, original content, and cultural projects.
-Help redefine how brands, fans, and culture connect through soccer in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
-Lead big, integrated creative ideas across branded campaigns, original formats, editorial projects, and cultural moments.
- Blend strategy, creativity, storytelling, and execution to make work that resonates with fans and partners.
-Elevate and evolve our clients creative standards, ensuring everything we make is distinctive, relevant, and culture-defining.
- Build strong client partnerships while also championing our own editorial and original IP.
-Inspire and mentor teams across disciplines, from writers and editors to producers and designers.
-Own the development of integrated ideas across branded campaigns, original shows, cultural activations, and editorial projects.
-Push creative boundaries while ensuring work is strategically sharp and culturally resonant.
- Set a high bar for creative excellence, guiding teams from concept through delivery.
- Lead creative across brand partnerships, shaping strategies and ideas that connect brands authentically to soccer culture.
- Partner with editorial and production teams to co-develop original IP and formats that grow our clients audience
-Oversee concepting, scripting, design direction, and storytelling frameworks across multiple platforms.
- Stay ahead of cultural and audience trends in soccer, media, and youth culture; build initiatives that elevate underrepresented voices and communities within soccer.
-Ensure all creative output reflects the diverse, global, and inclusive nature of the game.
- Identify opportunities to expand partnerships through creative thinking and execution.
- Represent our clients creative point of view in pitches, presentations, and industry forums.
- Mentor and inspire creative talent across the business, ensuring career growth and high performance.
- Foster collaboration between creative, editorial, production, and commercial teams.
-Champion processes and workflows that enable world-class creative work at scale.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of creative leadership in media, entertainment, culture, or brand environments.
-Strong portfolio spanning campaigns, original content, and culturally relevant projects.
-Experience delivering top-notch campaigns
-Proven ability to deliver integrated ideas across film, digital, social, experiential, and editorial.
-Deep knowledge of North American soccer culture and its intersections with youth, fashion, music, and global communities.
-Strong leadership skills: able to set vision, mentor teams, and inspire clients.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to sell bold ideas internally and externally.
- Entrepreneurial mindset. Eager to experiment, build new formats, and drive cultural impact.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.
Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
pamela.koenig@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : PK3-1878710 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***
Pamela Koenig - Senior Recruiter
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 09/26/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
Copyright 1999 - 2025. CreativeCircle, Inc. All rights reserved.
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