Creative Director Job at Interactive Strategies, Washington DC

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  • Interactive Strategies
  • Washington DC

Job Description

At Interactive Strategies, we don’t just build brands, websites and marketing campaigns—we help tell the stories that matter. Our work supports organizations tackling the world’s biggest challenges, from climate action to public health. We are looking for a Creative Director to lead the creative vision behind that work, helping mission-driven organizations communicate with clarity, emotion, and impact across every touchpoint.

As our Creative Director, you’ll collaborate across disciplines—strategy, UX, design, content, and marketing—to shape ideas from insight to execution. While this is a leadership role, it is not managerial. Consider your projects your direct reports. Your responsibility is to champion storytelling that connects, inspires, and delivers results. Whether you’re guiding a team through a rebrand, pitching bold campaign concepts, or helping a nonprofit redefine its digital presence, you’ll help set the creative tone for the agency and elevate everything we do.

What You’ll Do

  • Inspire Creative Culture: Set the bar for creative excellence across disciplines—design, content, UX, strategy, and marketing. Mentor staff and champion clarity, purpose, and originality in everything we deliver.
  • Build Brand Narratives: Translate positioning and messaging into memorable visual and narrative systems. Ensure the essence of a brand is expressed with depth, consistency, and versatility.
  • Collaborate with Intention: Work hand-in-hand with strategists, designers, writers and marketers to co-create bold, insight-driven work—grounded in research and tailored to specific audiences.
  • Be a Trusted Voice: Present and defend ideas with confidence and humility—leading client presentations, facilitating collaborative reviews, and navigating feedback with grace.
  • Lead the Pitch: Play a key role in new business development—helping shape proposals, deliver pitches, and build creative narratives that show what’s possible (and make clients want to be part of it).
  • Expertly Execute: Review and participate in creative output from kickoff to launch, with an eye for detail, a heart for storytelling, and a commitment to raising the bar.

What We’re Looking For

  • 10+ years in creative roles, with a strong background in brand leadership and digital execution—agency experience a plus
  • A portfolio that showcases standout brand work, conceptual thinking, and cross-channel campaigns that connect
  • Proven experience leading new business pitches and selling creative ideas that stick
  • Deep understanding of brand strategy, storytelling, and integrated marketing across digital channels
  • A confident and empathetic communicator—equally comfortable guiding internal teams and presenting to executive-level clients
  • Someone who sees the big picture, values the details, and believes that collaboration makes everything better

Benefits

We have a simple motto when it comes to company culture, "Everyone deserves to come to work and be happy." This means a few things:

(1) we care as much about quality as we do about budgets

(2) we find the strengths in each employee and nurture them

(3) we encourage a culture that values innovation and creative freedom

(4) we want you to have fun. We understand that you have a life outside of work.

We allow our employees creative freedom. We treat them with respect. We value their opinions. In that spirit, we offer the following benefits:

  • Company-sponsored health, vision and dental insurance
  • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Profit sharing
  • 4 weeks of PTO to start, 5 weeks at year 3
  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
  • Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
  • 11 paid holidays
  • 401k with company match
  • New business referral bonus
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits

Salary Range

$120,000 – $150,000 (commensurate with experience)

A Little About Us:

We’re a DC-based digital agency with a national reach and a strategy-first mindset. We partner with nonprofits, associations, and mission-driven companies to help them connect more meaningfully with their audiences. We’re proud to be a certified LGBTBE business and an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse voices lead to stronger work—and stronger impact.

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Temporary work, Flexible hours,

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