Calling all change champions, inspired doers, and real-world brand builders.

Finch Brands, a real-world brand consultancy, is seeking a Creative Director with a strong foundation in copywriting and design to manage a diverse workflow of client engagements that span insights, brand strategy, and design as well as a range of industries. 

This role is client-facing and serves as the senior point of contact on complex, multi-faceted branding engagements. Overall, this leader must have a high comfort working with insights and strategic direction to solve brand and business questions through captivating writing and visual concepting. Responsibilities include collaborating with the Strategy team to execute insight-driven brand strategy components (personas, messaging, positioning, purpose, mission, values, brand architecture, product service offerings, innovation, etc.) and overseeing a team of designers who execute concepts (visual identity, brand collateral, advertising, etc.). 

This role is ultimately responsible for the output of our Design team, the satisfaction of our clients, and the opportunities our excellence creates. 

Main Duties:

• Be the bridge – Generate strategic brand copy and direct innovative visual concepts.  
• Design guidance and mentorship – act as key touchpoint for Design team as brand strategy is brought to life creatively including working with staff junior to you to develop, push, and refine creative ideas (both visually and verbally) before sharing with leadership. 
• Coordinate with account and project managers to understand project requirements and help manage deliverables. Ability to shift across multiple projects and accounts. 
• Client strategic leadership – helping clients think through complex strategy and design needs and outputs to meet business objectives.  Oversee the development of winning insights-driven brand strategies, copy, and visual concepting.  
• Design guidance and mentorship – Managing the quality of deliverables as brand strategy is brought to life visually/verbally. 
• Account expansion – bring a growth mindset to client relationships, expanding our opportunity to serve clients across time and need states. 
• Corporate leadership – actively participate on the Management Leadership Team in working to make Finch Brands better across teams. 
• Innovation – while protecting the current business, actively participate in identifying future services opportunities as we grow and evolve.  

Company Description

Finch Brands is a real-world brand consultancy. We exist to help brands win when it matters most. We blend deep curiosity, a real-world mindset, and a uniquely collaborative workstyle to champion purposeful change for client brands and businesses.

Founded in 1998 by the pioneering minds instrumental in the ascent of David’s Bridal and IKEA, the Finch Brands team has extensive experience building, running and growing successful brands. Along with years of agency service, this includes important tenures at Campbell Soup, Kimberly-Clark, MARS, Target, Subway, and more. 

Finch Brands clients include brands such as Comcast, Boston Beer, Gap, Procter & Gamble, and Jack Daniel’s. Proud generalists, we work across consumer/B2B/non-profit sectors.

At Finch Brands, we are champions of purposeful change:

Built for Change:
We are the most consequential partner our clients will ever engage. And we’re especially valuable at junctures of great opportunity – such as M&A, rebranding, innovation, new levels of customer connection, etc.

Businesspeople First:
We are deeply focused on outcomes – and we bring a high ‘get it’ factor to work every day. Many of our senior leaders ‘grew up’ in operating roles at brand-driven companies and all of us, no matter background or function, simply love helping to progress brands and businesses.

Boardroom-Ready:
We believe process is just as important as content. Building strong, mutually respectful relationships with key stakeholders ensures we benefit from internal input while building the trust required to champion purposeful change – both inside and out.

Fueled by Insights:
No matter the destination, it is a core set of facts that lights the way for the journey. Always curious, we use data for illumination – to guide the work that follows.

Great to work with:
We are flexible, high touch, and high impact – focused on long-term relationships and providing wise counsel. As the boutique answer to the big shops, we’re broad-shouldered yet intentionally intimate. There is no B Team at Finch Brands.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Preferred candidates will have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in fields spanning business, marketing, advertising, creative writing, or journalism
• 10+ years experience in client-side or agency role
• Experience managing complex multiphase projects related to brands
• Ability to perform at a high level and multi-task in a very fast-paced environment, handling multiple major client projects at once
• Executive presence – as listener, collaborator, and presenter
• Comfort and track record in growing key accounts
• Creates positive energy through a team-first attitude – we have each others’ backs
• A natural curiosity regarding brands and business with a focus on delivering results
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills

Candidate Attributes:

• Be a driver, not a passenger: self-starter mentality with a strong bias for action
• Find opportunity in the uncomfortable: a growth-oriented mindset and willingness to move beyond their current comfort zone to develop new skills
• Care deeply about outcomes: A remarkable work ethic and superior attention to detail
• Has each other’s backs: Collaborates effectively and has coworkers’ backs
• Create positive energy: Advocates for their team and enhances a sense of comradery throughout work streams
• Seeks & Shares Feedback: Is comfortable giving and receiving feedback to direct team and cross-function
• An ability to learn new things quickly
• A natural curiosity about brands and businesses with a focus on delivering results
• Flexible and solution-oriented

If you share a relentless passion for results, we want to hear from you.

To apply, please send your resume to info@finchbrands.com with the subject line "Creative Director.”