- Pretoria
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Advertising Marketing Consulting
- Reference: 1864
Vacancy Details
Employer: Crayon Technologies (Pty) Ltd
How you'll role
As the Digital Creative Director, you will be a key leader in directing the creative output of the agency. This involves advancing the industry standard through innovative ideas, strong leadership, and leveraging AI-driven creativity. The role requires a balance of visionary thinking with practical execution to ensure that all concepts meet client needs and business objectives. You will be instrumental in guiding the team through the entire creative process, from inception to execution, ensuring each project is delivered on time and to high standards.
What you'll do
- Lead the agency’s digital creative output across campaigns, brands, content, and client work
- Drive the full creative process from concept to execution
- Guide and mentor designers and creatives to produce work of the highest standard
- Present creative concepts to clients and manage feedback through to sign-off
- Ensure creative work aligns with strategy, brand goals, customer journeys, budgets, and deadlines
- Push innovation across the team and embed a culture of world-class creative thinking
- Use performance insights and campaign data to optimise creative in live environments
- Champion the use of AI tools and workflows to improve ideation, production, personalisation, testing, and execution
- Stay ahead of trends in digital marketing, design, content, and AI-enabled creative leadership
- Contribute to case studies, award-worthy work, and the ongoing evolution of the agency’s creative offering
Required Skills
- Project Management: 4 to 5 years
- Digital Marketing: 4 to 5 years
- Design Direction: 4 to 5 years
Candidate Requirements
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience in an agency setting
- A highly accomplished creative leader with strong digital and brand instincts
- Excellent creative skills across concepting, design direction, storytelling, and execution
- Proven leadership ability with experience guiding and growing a creative team
- Strong innovation mindset with the ability to generate original, effective ideas
- Strong execution skills and attention to detail - you know how to get great work out the door
- Commercial awareness and the ability to solve client challenges creatively
- Confidence presenting work to clients and leading creative conversations
- Excellent project, process, and time management
- Deep understanding of digital platforms, creative performance, social media, and campaign optimisation
- A strong interest in and practical understanding of AI in creative work
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