OLIVER Agency is hiring: Creative Director, Embedded Creative Studio in San Fran

Creative Director, Embedded Creative Studio

Join our team at OLIVER Agency, a world‑leading specialist in bespoke in‑house agencies and marketing ecosystems. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries, delivering creative solutions that resonate deeply.

Location: San Francisco / Bay Area

About the role: We’re launching an embedded, AI‑native creative studio for a global B2B tech brand serving 85% of the Fortune 500. As Creative Director, you will lead a high‑output studio that operates as an extension of the client’s internal brand team, scaling their vision with craft and speed.

What you will be doing

• Lead and elevate the creative team – Direct a multi‑disciplinary team, develop skills, foster excellence, contribute hand‑on to concepting, building and execution, ensuring maximum efficiency with GenAI stack.
• Own quality from brief to delivery – Manage, review, audit all creative work, run internal critiques, tighten executions, and be the final decision maker.
• Be the brand guardian – Ensure every asset aligns flawlessly with the client’s guidelines, voice and vision.
• Partner with leadership – Work closely with the OLIVER Business Director to run the studio smoothly, respect timelines and provide exceptional client service.
• Flex with the pace – Prioritize workloads effectively in a high‑volume environment, responding to tight deadlines and shifting demands.

What you need to be great in this role

Motivator and Standard-Setter

• Inspire your team to consistently push for excellence.
• Create an environment where people want to do their best work.
• Hold team members accountable to high standards.

Proactive Quality Protection

• Lead internal reviews before problems surface.
• Actively seek feedback from internal and client‑side stakeholders.
• Course‑correct work before it goes off‑brand or off‑brief.

AI‑Native Mindset with a Discerning Eye

• Believe in better, not just more.
• Demonstrate impeccable taste and creative judgment.
• Stay curious about how AI can scale excellence without sacrifice.
• Use AI as a tool to elevate craft and accelerate delivery, not as a shortcut.
• Know what’s worth making and what isn’t.

Capability Builder

• Coordinate knowledge‑sharing within the team.
• Facilitate continuous learning opportunities.
• Improve processes and ways of working.
• Level up team skills through smarter processes.

Cross‑Functional Collaborator

• Work actively with account leads, client creative directors, producers and project managers.
• Ensure alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
• Deliver a seamless client experience.

Base salary may range from $136,000.00 USD to $152,000.00 USD. Compensation varies based on location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience and qualifications.

Our values shape everything we do:

• Ambitious: to succeed.
• Imaginative: to push boundaries.
• Inspirational: to do groundbreaking work.
• Always learning and listening.
• Results‑focused to exceed expectations.
• Actively pro‑inclusive and anti‑racist across our community, clients and creations.

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science‑based emissions reduction targets. We work towards embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.