Creative Lead

About Loop

Loop is an award-winning, fast-growing creative studio that specializes in bringing brands to life through impactful stunts, campaigns and social media. Recognized by Ad Age as the 2024 Small Agency Newcomer of the Year and AdWeek's Innovator 50, Loop partners with some of the most innovative brands in the world including DoorDash, Paramount Pictures, Anthropic, Warner Bros., Amazon Studios, A24, Duolingo and more.

The Role

We're looking for a Creative Lead to join our NYC team in-office. This is a senior leadership role on Loop's creative team that will partner closely with our CEO and Head of Marketing. You'll have Creative Director-level ownership of the work in a hands-on role for someone who can hold the line on craft while spearheading the kind of work Loop is known for. You'll lead creative end-to-end across social, campaign and digital work. Balancing big ideas with the executional rigor that makes them actually land. If the prospect of pushing an idea from zero to millions of impressions sounds fun, you're in the right place.

Please note all Loop roles require mandatory 4 days in office per week, working out of our DUMBO office in Brooklyn.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end creative from development through final delivery across brand, campaign, digital, and print
• Visual direction and storytelling across projects, ensuring consistency, craft, and a high bar for finish
• The creative output that defines how clients show up in the world
• Client presentations. Clearly articulating, defending, and evolving creative thinking in the room
• Creative leadership in pitches and new business. From concepting through deck creation
• Pre-production visualization including moodboards and mockups that bring ideas to life before production begins
• A senior voice in shaping Loop's overall creative and marketing strategy

What You'll Lead

• Day-to-day creative direction for designers, copywriters, art directors, content creators, and interactive developers. Both in-house and external
• Mentorship and structured feedback that elevates team output and raises the craft bar
• Collaboration across creative, production, and accounts
• Cross-functional alignment between strategy, creative, production, and account leadership
• Client meetings as a leading voice in presenting and defending the work
• High standards of detail, finish, and delivery across every touchpoint

Partner With Production

This is very important: Loop has an in-house production team, which means your ideas don't just live in decks. They get built, installed, filmed, and shipped. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with production from development through live delivery. Providing a creative POV on production design, managing creative assets, and making sure the work shows up exactly as intended.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of creative experience at an agency
• A strong portfolio spanning campaigns and digital plus social-forward campaign experience
• Advanced proficiency in 2D design across motion and graphic, with fluency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and Premiere Pro
• A sharp eye for design, layout, and visual systems
• Confidence presenting creative with a clear rationale, and the communication skills to push back constructively when a brief evolves beyond its original intent
• Comfort owning multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Experience contributing to both creative and marketing strategy
• Familiarity with scope management in a creative production context. Knowing how to define deliverables precisely and flag when a client is scope-creeping in real-time
• Bonus: Genuine experience with emerging AI tech
• Bonus: 3D design. Modeling and rendering
• Bonus: Motion design proficiency

Compensation & Perks

• Salary starting at $110,000 (scalable by experience)
• Comprehensive benefits package including premium healthcare, dental, vision, One Medical membership, 401k, optional HSA, Citibike contribution & more
• Free breakfast Mondays, free lunch Tuesdays, and lots of office treats