Creative Director, Marketing / Advertising

Do you want to work on thumb-stopping social media content, original campaign creative, direct response marketing, and even the occasional broadcast commercial? How’d you like to do all that for one of the world’s most recognizable brands and our fortune 500 clients? If yes, introductions are in order. 

We are Ad Hock. Visa's internal creative team servicing Visa’s many clients in addition to our own world-renowned brand. Just as Visa founder Dee Hock revolutionized the way we pay, Ad Hock is taking a new approach to the internal creative team by developing full advertising capabilities in-house. We create high-visibility content to support every layer of the funnel starting with brand awareness. In this role, your efforts will support Visa’s core brand and sponsorships, as well as Visa’s clients and partners by producing marketing and advertising content. You can expect a balance of hardworking, bread and butter content to create with a healthy dose of big flashy campaign work to keep things interesting.  

You will work closely with our strategists, copywriters, designers, and other creative directors to lead in the ideation and execution of pitches, and creative campaigns. Projects vary in size from simple social media posts to large-scale campaigns that activate Visa’s brand, our sponsorships with NFL, FIFA, Olympics, Formula 1, and the occasional musician or celebrity.  

We’re looking for an established Creative Director with either a Copy Writing OR Art Director / Design background, who can think conceptually and deliver impeccably. Someone who loves to think about the big picture, and figure out ways to turn ideas into beautiful, impactful, and exciting stories and images. The ideal candidate will have the experience to lead and mentor a team, and the willingness to roll up their sleeves for some hands-on work when needed. 

This role will report to the Senior Creative Director within the North America Marketing org and work in close collaboration with the creative operations team. 

You’ll be working with the best and brightest marketing, brand, and advertising teams the industry has to offer. Come join us! 

Responsibilities 

• Lead teams to create integrated campaigns including digital display, social, event activations, and video 

• Oversee Copy and Art Direction to ensure we deliver the highest quality of visual assets.  

• Manage bandwidth in partnership with operations to successfully deliver day-to-day work alongside high-profile campaigns 

• Develop highly engaging content for multiple platforms, e.g. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and prioritize short-form video 

• Leverage our brand style guidelines and client style guides in unique ways to make original, engaging content while ensuring creative work is on-brief and on-brand  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including client marketing, product marketing, sponsorship, and deals 

• Ensure creative output is efficient, and scalable 

• Support Visa’s core brand and sponsorships, as well as partner advertising content for clients 

• Work closely with strategists, copywriters, designers, and other creative directors to lead ideation and execution of pitches and creative campaigns 

• Mentor, coach and inspire junior creative team members, senior creative team members and everyone in between 

• Be a vocal and visible advocate for your diverse team, taking actions to ensure everyone is included and represented 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.