Freelance ACD, Art

2 Days ago • 4 Years +

About the job

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As a Freelance Associate Creative Director, you couple a strong creative voice with strategic thinking to lead major marketing initiatives. Balancing creative thinking with interpersonal skills, you develop solid client relations by clearly communicating and justifying concepts. Visual design is your bread and butter—but you’ve also got strong working knowledge of experience design, brand development, interactive commerce, and creative processes, which are essential in your role.You’re looking to hone your management skills directing the collaborative efforts of a large creative team.

And the environment you build for your team fosters professional growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Most importantly, you embody and embrace our values—to be honest, inspired, drive, passionate and real—in everything you do.


You will:

  • Drive the strategies that address customer needs and business goals across digital channels.
  • Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen both the agency brand and market leadership position.
  • Develop & deliver innovative proposals to capture both account growth and new business opportunities.
  • Promote continuous improvement and accountability by driving Creative discipline and operational excellence and lending industry vertical expertise.
  • Perform strategic account planning with senior management in vertical marketing groups.
  • Conceive and create experience design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives.
  • Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project stakeholders.
  • Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams, including all creative disciplines, technology, planning, account and program managers, partners, clients and more.
  • Provide regular team leadership and constructive feedback on all accounts.
  • Develop, monitor, and modify the business unit creative department staffing strategies and plans, including team composition, performance, skills, training, and mentoring.
  • Develop, implement, and monitor quality standards across all creative artifacts and deliverables.
  • Continuously improve Creative methods, problem solving models, and best practices.
  • Proactively manage the success of production scope, schedules, and budgets.

You have:

  • 4+ years design, marketing, or communications interactive work and art direction experience.
  • Strong design portfolio.
  • Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
  • Solid understanding and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality.

About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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