Fractional Creative Director

Fractional Creative Director (Contract / Part-Time)

This is a part-time, contract role (~7-10 hours per week) for a senior creative leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and can guide both concept and execution.

What You'll Do

• Lead creative direction across multiple client accounts, ensuring consistency in brand voice, visual identity, and storytelling
• Elevate the quality of all creative output, with a strong emphasis on graphic design, visual systems, and overall polish
• Provide high-level direction and feedback on social content, ad creatives, campaigns, and production (photo/video)
• Oversee and approve key creative deliverables, ensuring they meet agency standards before reaching clients
• Collaborate with Social & Content Strategists (SCS), Client Success Managers (CSMs), designers, and freelance creatives
• Help define and refine brand systems, visual guidelines, and creative frameworks for client work
• Join select client calls or presentations to guide and defend creative direction when needed
• Establish and improve internal creative processes, briefs, and quality control standards
• Mentor and elevate designers and creatives through thoughtful, actionable feedback

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in creative direction, ideally within an agency or multi-brand environment
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in graphic design, branding, and digital/social campaigns
• A sharp eye for design — typography, layout, composition, and brand consistency
• Experience leading or overseeing designers and cross-functional creative teams
• Ability to translate strategy into compelling, high-performing creative
• Strong understanding of content production (video, photo, and social-first formats)
• Comfortable working in a fractional / embedded capacity with distributed teams
• Clear communicator who can give direct, actionable feedback and present ideas confidently
• Experience with performance-driven creative (paid social, engagement-focused content) is a plus

Engagement Details

• Contract / Consultant role
• Part-time (~7-10 hours per week, flexible based on workload)
• Remote-friendly
• Ongoing engagement with potential to expand based on client growth