Career Spotlight: Creative Director
The Creative Ladder
A nonprofit dedicated to connecting, inspiring and elevating an inclusive new generation of creative industry leaders.
Creative Directors play a vital leadership role at agencies and brands. As charismatic leaders and architects of big ideas, they bring together the worlds of writing, design and strategy by leading teams of creative specialists.
Each week, The Creative Ladder’s Career Spotlight, presented by Smartsheet , features one of the many creative industry roles that today’s rising talents might want to consider as a rewarding career path.?
And if you want a career that’s flexible, wide-ranging, leadership-oriented and never boring, Creative Director could be a great fit.?
What this role does:
A Creative Director oversees the creative direction and production of everything their team creates, from ads on billboards to the look and feel of a website. They lead teams of creatives (typically writers and designers), organize brainstorming sessions, and meet frequently with clients to understand their needs.?
Salary range:
$124,000–$224,000 (average $165,000), per Glassdoor; $63,000–$200,000 (average $111,376), per Indeed.
Personality traits that thrive in this career:?
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What they love about their job:
“I get to teach, not just design.” — Aaron Sanchez , Creative Director
What recruiters look for when hiring for this role:
A sample career path for this role:
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Special thanks to Smartsheet for sponsoring The Creative Ladder’s Career Spotlight series. Learn more about how Smartsheet can help creative professionals thrive through its enterprise work management platform.?
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10 个月I love this as a series, more often than not the challenge in making progress in your career is in knowing where you’re looking to progress to. A series like this helps shed light on that for all of us. This is a banger ????