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Associative Creative Director - Branding, Concept Development

Portland, OR
Full-Time

Job Description

Our agency client is looking for an Associate Creative Director (ACD) to join their collaborative and close-knit team in Portland, OR (onsite 100%). If you have a passion for storytelling, design, and elevating brands, this is your chance to guide projects, lead teams, and help shape creative campaigns.

This ACD will:
- Project Leadership: Lead and co-lead projects, guiding teams to create compelling brand campaigns that tell strong, impactful stories.
- Client Interaction: Be the face of creative strategy, advocating for design solutions and team efforts during presentations and meetings with clients.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with team members across different disciplines in brainstorming sessions, work sessions, and other collaborative settings.
- Hands-on Design Work: Get involved in crafting designs, decks, and brand voice elements tailored to the needs of each client.
- Brand Elevation: Develop creative strategies to enhance brand identity and market presence, ensuring exceptional outcomes for campaigns.
- Production Coordination: Partner with production teams to execute ideas seamlessly.

This ACD must:
- Design or AD Background: Extensive experience in design or art direction (5+ years), with a proven track record in brand campaigns and storytelling.
- Client-Facing Skills: Strong ability to present and advocate for designs and creative concepts effectively, with thick skin to navigate constructive feedback.
- Software Proficiency: Skilled in Keynote, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Slack, Outlook, Zoom, and Apple products.
- Personable Team Player: Join a team of kind, diverse individuals with unique interest being part of a dynamic and supportive culture.

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:

miranda.mcadams@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : RS22-1848534 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***

Miranda McAdams - 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 04/10/2025 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.

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Our agency client is looking for an Associate Creative Director (ACD) to join their collaborative and close-knit team in Portland, OR (onsite 100%). If you have a passion for storytelling, design, and elevating brands, this is your chance to guide projects, lead teams, and help shape creative campaigns.

This ACD will:
- Project Leadership: Lead and co-lead projects, guiding teams to create compelling brand campaigns that tell strong, impactful stories.
- Client Interaction: Be the face of creative strategy, advocating for design solutions and team efforts during presentations and meetings with clients.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with team members across different disciplines in brainstorming sessions, work sessions, and other collaborative settings.
- Hands-on Design Work: Get involved in crafting designs, decks, and brand voice elements tailored to the needs of each client.
- Brand Elevation: Develop creative strategies to enhance brand identity and market presence, ensuring exceptional outcomes for campaigns.
- Production Coordination: Partner with production teams to execute ideas seamlessly.

This ACD must:
- Design or AD Background: Extensive experience in design or art direction (5+ years), with a proven track record in brand campaigns and storytelling.
- Client-Facing Skills: Strong ability to present and advocate for designs and creative concepts effectively, with thick skin to navigate constructive feedback.
- Software Proficiency: Skilled in Keynote, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Slack, Outlook, Zoom, and Apple products.
- Personable Team Player: Join a team of kind, diverse individuals with unique interest being part of a dynamic and supportive culture.

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:

miranda.mcadams@jobalert.creativecircle.com
**Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: : RS22-1848534 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***

Miranda McAdams - 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 04/10/2025 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.PDN-9eaf9b59-a7ff-4287-8b25-31f12d8496f3

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