Creative Direction Senior Manager

• Owns creative quality across assigned projects and ensures the work meets high creative standards.

• Determines the right level of involvement for each project, from hands-on leadership to oversight and final sign-off.

• Steps in decisively when creative quality or clarity is at risk.

• Raises the standard of the work by guiding, challenging, and enabling others to produce their best work.

• Leads with care for people, craft, and culture, regardless of formal reporting lines.

• Coaches creatives, provides feedback, advocates for their growth, and supports sustainable workloads.

• Understands the team's strengths and development needs.

• Partners closely with Project Managers and Coordinating Producers, clearly aligning on responsibilities and level of involvement.

• Builds trusted stakeholder relationships and helps communicate creative value and trade-offs.

• Champions innovation and the responsible use of AI to improve thinking, speed, and outcomes without replacing creative judgment.

• Connects with other Creative Directors to share work, standards, and learning, helping create one cohesive creative culture across M+Cx.

• Measures success not only by the work personally created, but by the quality and impact enabled in others.