Senior Creative Director

Senior Creative Director – Ignite Creative Services
Ignite Creative Services is a full‑service Food, Beverage & Hospitality Marketing Agency built for brands that want to stand out, sell smarter, and scale faster.

We blend strategy, creativity, and execution—creating experiences that move the needle across culinary, mixology, marketing, and operations.

Company Overview
Ignite is based in Scottsdale, AZ, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise, and led by Founder & CEO Celia Waddington.

We design end‑to‑end creative solutions for hospitality‑driven brands, including brand strategy, beverage and menu innovation, sales tools, go‑to‑market launches, digital guides, field marketing support, and more.

Role Description
This senior leadership role requires a creative who can think big, lead confidently, and execute decisively.

As Senior Creative Director, you will own the creative vision across the agency—shaping brand narratives, campaigns, content, and experiential work while mentoring a growing creative team.

You will partner closely with strategy, accounts, production, and leadership to ensure our work is conceptually strong, operationally grounded, and commercially effective.

Key responsibilities include:

Lead creative strategy and execution across multiple clients and categories

Set the creative standard for brand, campaign, content, and experiential work

Translate business goals into bold, actionable creative ideas

Oversee concepting, design, copy, and storytelling across platforms

Partner with accounts and strategy to ensure work aligns with client objectives

Mentor, develop, and elevate designers, creatives, and collaborators

Present creative concepts confidently to clients and internal stakeholders

Balance innovation with operational feasibility (budgets, timelines, execution)

Continuously evolve Ignite’s creative voice and point of view

Qualifications

12+ years in creative leadership (agency experience required)

Proven experience leading integrated campaigns, not just single deliverables

Strong understanding of branding, content, digital, social, and experiential marketing

Ability to lead teams while staying hands‑on when needed

Comfort working in a fast‑paced, entrepreneurial environment

Experience in hospitality, food & beverage, lifestyle, or consumer brands is a major plus

Someone who can challenge ideas constructively and elevate the room

What You Will Learn

Deep exposure to operational‑side marketing and its impact on profitability

How creative decisions directly impact business performance

Experiences building creative within an EOS‑driven organization

Insight into beverage, hospitality, and experiential marketing at scale

Leadership experience shaping a growing agency’s creative culture

Direct collaboration with executive leadership and high‑level clients

The ability to influence not just campaigns but the agency’s future direction

Location
Phoenix, AZ

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