Associate Creative Director

Job overview

The Associate Creative Director role is onsite in Portland, OR, and pays $105,000–$135,000 per year. This full-time role is part of Thesis’s Growth team, which identifies opportunities, builds relationships, develops ideas, and wins business. Thesis is an independent agency working across creativity, strategy, and technology. The role leads creative development for new-business pitches and creates strategic, effective work across digital, social, CRM, lifecycle, brand, and integrated campaigns. It connects creative direction and hands-on making with business outcomes, helping prospective clients understand how ideas can address their challenges and support growth.

What you'll do

• Lead creative development of new-business pitches
• develop strategic creative across digital, social, CRM, lifecycle, brand, and integrated campaigns
• create pitch presentations, visual storytelling, concepts, and prototypes
• translate complex business challenges into clear creative
• partner with strategy, lifecycle, performance, and technology teams
• connect creative decisions to business impact
• guide multidisciplinary teams
• present creative work to leadership and prospective clients
• experiment with AI-enabled workflows and contemporary design tools.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

associate creative director

portland or

thesis

full-time

$105k–$135k

creative direction

new business pitches

digital campaigns

crm

lifecycle marketing

ai workflows

brand strategy

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Combines creative direction with hands-on design and pitch development; works across B2B and B2C brands and emerging AI-enabled creative workflows.

About the employer

Thesis is hiring for this role. Industry: Advertising Agencies. Sector: 54.