Creative Director - W2 Role -100% Remote

Role :Associate Creative Director

100% remote

3month Contract W2

Company:

·      Grant Thornton is a global Audit, Tax, and Advisory Services company offering a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, operations, technology and more across various industries.

Location: 100% remote – Manager sits in New York, ideal if they sit in east coast or central time zones!

Duration: Contract – 3 months with potential to extend and/or convert to full-time

Overview:

•        This is a strategic creative leadership role with a strong point of view and the ability to guide teams toward impactful, brand-defining work.

•        The Creative Associate Director provides senior leadership across creative execution, overseeing integrated campaigns, brand expression, sales excellence, events, motion, and creative enablement.

•        The role balances vision with pragmatism, leads through influence rather than hands-on execution, and brings clarity to complex, global creative ecosystems.

•        Accountable for creative quality, consistency, and performance across regions and channels, this role focuses on direction, governance, and orchestration—aligning diverse, distributed teams around a shared creative standard

Responsibilities:

•        Set the creative vision, standards, and success criteria across all major creative disciplines

•        Act as the primary decision-maker for creative direction, quality, and prioritization within assigned initiatives, escalating only where enterprise alignment is required

•        Establish and maintain creative governance models that define decision rights, escalation paths, and quality standards across regions and teams

•        Lead on-shore and off-shore creative teams by providing clear direction, fostering collaboration, and ensuring consistent quality

•        Provide leadership, coaching, and development for creative managers and leads, contributing to succession planning and long-term capability growth

•        Partner closely with Corporate Brand leaders to align creative priorities, workflows, and expectations

•        Serve as a senior creative advisor to marketing and business leaders, advocating for creative excellence while balancing business priorities

•        Partner with stakeholders to shape creative demand, prioritize initiatives, and ensure briefs are strategic, clear, and aligned to capacity and impact

•        Translate brand and business strategy into clear creative frameworks, briefs, and guidance for teams and partners

•        Ensure cohesion across creative disciplines by aligning campaign, sales, event, motion, and enablement work into a unified creative experience

•        Lead integrated campaign creative development by guiding concept development, reviewing work for effectiveness, and applying learnings to continuously elevate performance

•        Review and approve creative work to ensure it meets brand, accessibility, and quality standards

•        Oversee the creative lifecycle from intake through delivery, optimization, and reuse to support scalable, efficient creative operations

•        Oversee agency and vendor relationships, ensuring output is on-strategy, on-brand, and delivered to a high standard

•        Champion scalable creative systems, templates, and enablement models that support global consistency

•        Drive innovation across creative workflows, including adoption of new tools, AI-enabled processes, and improved ways of working

•        Lead teams through change by introducing new processes, tools, and approaches that improve creative quality and efficiency

•        Balance creative ambition with operational realities, timelines, and available resources

Qualifications:

·      6+ years of experience as a Creative or Associate Creative Director

·      Experience working on a large corporate visual identity or design team or at a major creative agency

·      Experience supporting large financial services, pharma, healthcare, or other regulated companies

·      Strong experience working across modern channels and campaigns including social media, TV, Out of Home, website, and PPC/Paid advertising.

·      Ability to be a creative strategist, perform hands-on design and writing, and act as a stakeholder & project manager.

·      Expertise using Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft PowerPoint, and PM tools like Clickup or Asana to perform hands-on design

Interview Process:

·      30 minute technical interview with Creative Director

·      30 minute interview with Team Lead