What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Director position at Addison Group?
Position Title: Creative Director
Location: Remote but must be local to the DC, Maryland and Virginia area
Assignment Type: 3 – 6 Months Contract
Pay Rate: $53 - $57/hr.
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday
Benefits: This position may be eligible for medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
Job Description:
Brand & Creative Leadership:
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Location: Remote but must be local to the DC, Maryland and Virginia area
Assignment Type: 3 – 6 Months Contract
Pay Rate: $53 - $57/hr.
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday
Benefits: This position may be eligible for medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
Job Description:
Brand & Creative Leadership:
- Guide the continued evolution of our client's brand across products, campaigns, marketing, thought leadership, and client-facing experiences
- Maintain creative standards across all channels and touchpoints
- Lead the development of thoughtful, differentiated, and strategically aligned creative work
- Facilitate presentations, workshops, reviews, and creative discussions with clients and internal stakeholders
- Help strengthen client relationships through quality, consistency, storytelling, and user experience
- Help define the user experience and strategy for digital products, platforms, applications, websites, and emerging interactive solutions
- Lead UI designers in modern product and responsive web design, enhancing brands through digital experiences
- Establish scalable design systems, interaction models, and experience standards
- Partner with engineering, product strategy, and production teams to ensure creative vision carries through to shipped experiences
- Provide guidance on accessibility, usability, storytelling, and customer experience best practices
- Support enterprise client engagements requiring strategic creative and UX leadership
- Help evolve AI-enabled creative and production capabilities throughout the organization
- Introduce practical workflows that improve creative quality, operational efficiency, collaboration, and scalability
- Evaluate emerging tools and technologies related to design, video, ideation, prototyping, and production
- Establish thoughtful standards for responsible and effective use of AI within creative workflows
- Guide teams through evolving technologies while maintaining creative judgment, originality, and brand integrity
- Oversee creative direction for product, application, web, and digital experience initiatives, along with supporting campaigns, content, and brand work
- Improve creative operations and production workflows to support scalability and execution quality
- Mentor and support multidisciplinary creative talent spanning design, UX, content, analytics, video, and production
- Help teams strengthen both creative craft and technology fluency
- Identify evolving skill needs and growth opportunities
- Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development efforts
- Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Partner with sales, marketing, engineering, product strategy, and production teams to align strategy and execution
- Translate business goals, technical requirements, and customer needs into compelling creative solutions
- Participate in planning sessions, innovation initiatives, workshops, and leadership collaboration
- Actively participate in in-office collaboration days and strategic planning sessions
- 5 years of experience in a Creative Director or senior creative leadership role
- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary creative teams within agencies, consultancies, product companies, or technology-focused organizations
- Background in digital product design, UX/UI, branding, storytelling, content systems, and creative strategy
- Demonstrated success improving creative operations, production workflows, and organizational processes
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and UX/UI best practices
- Hands-on experience with Agile workflows and collaboration tools, including Jira and Confluence
- Fluent with modern creative tools such as Figma and Miro and evolving workflows related to design, video, prototyping, and production
- Ability to integrate generative AI technologies into creative, content, product design, or production workflows
- Familiarity with platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Runway, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Figma AI, Canva, and related tools is preferred.
- Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and client leadership skills
- Ability to lead multiple workstreams and multidisciplinary teams simultaneously
- Systems-thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Understanding of digital ecosystems, evolving customer behaviors, and AI-driven experience trends
- Portfolio demonstrating leadership across digital products, mobile and web applications, campaigns, brand systems, or experience-driven work spanning multiple mediums and teams
- Strategic thinker with a collaborative, adaptive, and team-oriented approach
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Salary : $53 - $57