Group Creative Director

About the Company

Marks is a consumer experience agency creating meaningful connections between brands and people across the brand spectrum. We design experiences that move at the speed of culture while delivering real business impact.

Our Brand Experience team brings brands to life through connected experiences that span environments content and culture. We think beyond individual touchpoints shaping how brands show up across an ecosystem of interactions to create meaningful lasting connections

About the Role

The Group Creative Director is a senior creative leader responsible for defining and delivering best-in-class brand experience across a portfolio of clients and teams.

This role leads a book of business owning creative output team leadership and client partnership while shaping ideas that translate into high-impact experiences across environments campaigns and connected touchpoints.

Operating at multiple altitudes setting vision guiding design strategy and driving execution. You build strong teams create clarity and momentum and earn the trust of clients as a true creative partner.

This is a role for someone who knows how to turn strong ideas into real outcomes where the work not only inspires but performs.

Location: Portland (Hybrid)

Role Expectations

Creative Vision & Portfolio Leadership

• Set and champion the creative vision across a portfolio of brand experience projects
• Define experience-led ideas not just executions
• Ensure work is strategically grounded creatively strong and executed with high craft
• Guide teams to design for Think Feel Do creating clear and engaging consumer journeys
• Deliver Moments that Matter while evolving thinking toward more connected and scalable experiences

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead mentor and develop Creative Directors ACDs and multidisciplinary teams
• Create clarity standards and momentum across the workstream
• Know when to push when to edit and when to empower teams to run
• Build a culture of ownership collaboration and creative ambition
• Scale leadership enabling teams to do their best work without creating dependency

Client Partnership & Strategic Influence

• Act as a senior creative partner to key clients
• Translate business challenges into compelling brand experience strategies
• Lead presentations guide feedback and drive confident decision-making
• Build trust that leads to deeper partnerships and new opportunities
• Partner closely with Account and Strategy leads to grow the business

Drive The Business

• Own the creative success of a workstream and its portfolio of clients
• Partner with the Senior Account Director to ensure the health performance and creative impact of the book of business
• Contribute to growth through proactive thinking strong relationships and new ideas
• Balance creative ambition with real-world constraints such as budgets timelines and production realities
• Identify and unlock opportunities to expand the work the relationship and our capabilities

Evolve The Work

• Deliver excellence in todays Brand Experience work across environments retail and activations
• Stay attuned to what drives engagement participation and cultural relevance
• Thoughtfully integrating digital content and technology where it enhances the experience
• Help teams evolve toward more connected shareable and measurable experiences without losing focus on core strengths
• Push teams to think beyond the build designing experiences that drive participation content and connection beyond the moment

The Ideal Person

• A proven creative leader with deep experience in brand experience retail and environments
• Equally comfortable setting vision and driving execution
• A strong point of view paired with the ability to listen adapt and lead through complexity
• A leader of leaders who builds trust clarity and momentum across teams
• A client-facing presence who earns confidence and becomes asked for by name
• A systems thinker who understands how ideas scale across formats channels and environments
• Curious and forward-looking aware of evolving consumer behaviors and experience trends
• Grounded and pragmatic you know how to make ideas real

You Bring

• Bachelors Degree in Design Art Marketing Communications or related field
• Advanced degree (MBA Masters) preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 12 years of experience in creative roles with senior leadership experience
• A strong portfolio of brand experience work across retail environments events and activations
• Proven experience leading teams and complex projects across multiple workstreams
• Expertise in developing ideas that translate from concept through execution
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Fluency in design and presentation tools such as Adobe Creative Suite Keynote and Figma

About Propelis: Propelis is a portfolio of global marketing services and technology companies with a combined legacy of 150 years 2000 clients 9000 employees and operations across 30 countries. Propelis provides the scale and support of a global organization while preserving the unique culture and identity of each company in its portfolio. For more information visit:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $160000 USD - $170000 USD annually. Ultimately in determining pay we will consider the successful candidates location experience and other job-related factors.

Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage dental plan vision plan basic and supplemental life insurance a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.

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