Director of Creative Strategy

**Location**: Regina - Hybrid, Remote-Friendly
**Type**: Fractional (~15-30 hrs/wk)

Adeptus Marketing is seeking a _Director of Creative Strategy_ to lead our creative engine and inspire the next wave of brand and campaign excellence. This is not your average Creative Director role, it’s a balanced blend of leadership, mentorship, strategic thinking, and process design.

You’ll work alongside strategists, creatives, and marketers to build work that’s as smart as it is beautiful, and you’ll help shape the systems that make that work repeatable, scalable, and exciting to deliver.

**You are**:

- A clear communicator and confident presenter who earns trust fast
- A modern marketer who understands integrated, multi-channel campaigns
- A concept-first creative thinker who knows how to bring big ideas to life
- A copywriter at heart and a coach in practice
- An eye for great design and copy with the ability to guide team members to get there
- A steady, emotionally mature leader with a sharp eye for quality and detail
- A playful collaborator who can hold the room, but never needs to own it

**You will**:

- Lead campaign concepting, creative strategy, and ideation sessions
- Work closely with Strategists and Account Managers to balance outstanding creative, client expectations, timelines, and budgets
- Art direct designers and copywriters and support our talent with mentorship and structure
- Develop and evolve our internal creative process and quality control systems
- Facilitate client-facing strategy sessions and workshops
- Align brand storytelling across channels with insight-driven thinking
- Art direct across digital, print, video, and social
- Champion excellence in every creative deliverable
- Be a relational integrator across teams, not a silo-builder or spotlight-seeker
- Define and refine creative processes that keep us efficient and inspired

**What we offer you**:

- **Autonomy, trust, and some control over your schedule.** Most of our work happens during regular business hours. You can’t work from 4 am - 8 am and be done every day. There are a few meetings set in relative stone (though if you have to miss one, we’ll take notes so you can catch up later), but generally speaking, you set your own schedule. Some like to start as the sun rises. Some burn the midnight oil. Others stick to 9-5 and take the occasional afternoon off. I mean, who really likes working Friday afternoons in the summer, right'
- **The opportunity to help build.** We’re growing, not just in size-we like staying lean and nimble-but in our scope and abilities. This is a chance for the right person to help mold the direction of a dynamic, innovative, and groundbreaking agency.
- **Location flexibility.** We offered a hybrid work environment before it was cool. All Adeptus team members can work where they want (we do require you’re in or around Regina, and able to attend regular in-person meetings). Want to work from home because it’s raining' Great. Get cozy and skip the commute. Love to be around people' Awesome - head on into Path Cowork as often as you please. The coffee is great, and the people are even better. Our team makes it a priority to work together in-person on Wednesdays and in this role you should expect to be in-person more often, often being the one to pull the introverts out of their home offices and shells to ensure smooth creative collaboration.
- **Opportunity to flourish**. We want to be the most sought-after marketing agency in North America. And we want you to be the best you can be, too. We can reach both of these goals only by sticking to our mission of helping everyone we work with flourish. This is a big part of why we choose our clients. We see our clients as partners, and if their values don’t align with ours, we don’t work with them. Because no one flourishes when it’s not a good fit. We do not go into emotional debt at work. You can be happy here.

**Requirements**:

- 8+ years in creative leadership roles (agency or in-house)
- Proven portfolio of campaigns with multi-platform execution
- Expert-level copywriting and art direction chops
- Track record of leading and growing creative teams
- Skilled facilitator and workshop leader
- Love process as much as you love a big idea
- You understand how hard it is to be an account manager and know how to support the client liason team
- Can spot and sell a strong concept across any platform
- Strategic thinker who can define, sell, and scale ideas
- Living in Regina, or a reasonable commutable distance to Regina

If you’re a teacher, a strategic thinker, a copywriting savant, and a calm, creative leader, we want to meet you.

Applicants must have a valid driver’s licence and access to a vehicle, or an available means of personal transportation, must live in Regina (or really close to the Queen City), must be eligible to work in Canada, and must be able to laugh at themselves. This role is a part-time contractor - approx 15-30 hours per week

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