Creative Director, Branding
Location: Brazil
The Creative Director, Branding is a creative force and trusted leader — someone who leads with conviction, designs with intention, and brings genuine investment to every project and person around them. From brand identity systems to large-scale experiential activations, they set the vision, define the bar, and make it feel exciting for the whole team to reach it.
Balancing hands-on design with strategic and people leadership, you'll set the creative direction for teams across a diverse range of work — from retail environments and product/brand launches to immersive brand experiences and campaign activations. You'll own client relationships to shape compelling brand narratives that translate seamlessly across physical, digital, and spatial touchpoints, ensuring every initiative is rooted in strong conceptual thinking and connected to real business goals.
Reporting to the ECD, you'll partner with senior leadership and global creative teams — pushing the boundaries of what branding can do, and setting the studio's standard of craft and storytelling that spans every category we work in.
What you’ll do
- Own the creative vision, concept, development, and execution of brand identities and integrated and physical campaigns
- Set brand positioning, messaging, and storytelling strategies that differentiate and elevate across the studio's roster
- Champion innovation and craft across brand design studio-wide, ensuring work is both strategically sound and visually distinctive
- Build, inspire, and mentor a team of global designers, art directors, and ACDs through the full creative process
- Serve as senior client contact and trusted creative partner, translating brand goals into compelling creative solutions
- Lead client presentations, articulating branding strategy and design concepts with clarity and confidence at the most senior levels
- Ensure all brand work aligns with client objectives and the studio's overall creative vision
- Set and oversee comprehensive brand guidelines that ensure consistency across all platforms
- Oversee the application of brand identity across digital, print, environmental, and experiential touchpoints
- Partner with production leadership to ensure high-quality execution of all brand assets
- Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in branding and design, and shape how the studio adopts them
- Set the direction for forward-thinking brand experiences in collaboration with creative strategy and design teams
- Define narratives and engagement strategies that merge physical and digital touchpoints for immersive brand storytelling
- Partner with senior leadership on new business, pitch strategy, and capability presentations for branding work
- Contribute to hiring, team structure, and the long-term growth of the branding discipline
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years in branding, identity design, or creative direction within an agency or studio environment, with significant experience at a senior creative leadership level
- An exceptional portfolio showcasing brand identity development, storytelling, and multi-platform execution
- Proven track record building, leading, and mentoring creative teams, fostering a culture of curiosity and innovation
- Deep understanding of how branding drives business impact and consumer engagement
- Confident, senior-level presenter with the ability to articulate and sell creative ideas to clients and the most senior stakeholders
- Experience owning senior client relationships and steering creative and business strategy
- Experience managing multiple high-profile projects, teams, and timelines without compromising creative quality
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments across international or cross-cultural contexts
- Passion for experiential design and integrating emerging trends and technologies into brand work
Apply for this role
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