Executive creative director Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Senior Creative Director

FranklinCovey is seeking a visionary and hands-on Senior Creative Director to lead the development of breakthrough creative that amplifies our brand and drives business results. This role will oversee a wide range of creative, content, community, and communications initiatives serving as both a strategic leader and a roll-up-your-sleeves creator. The ideal candidate is a customer-obsessed, design-thinking leader with deep expertise in storytelling, visual identity, and cross-functional collaboration.

You will guide and inspire a high-performing team in producing compelling content across traditional, digital, video, and social platforms, including web, email, sales collateral, presentations, and event materials. As we build a scalable internal creative agency, you'll implement proven systems and tools, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure our creative output is not only beautiful, but purposeful, measurable, and aligned with FranklinCovey's mission to enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere from the classroom to the boardroom.

A Lot About You

You get people. You have a unique blend of skills in creating community, developing relationships, and driving strategy and execution through positive and productive partnerships. You are a customer-obsessed, people-focused, and design-thinking leader who has delivered growth through storytelling and creativity. You have demonstrated success working with creative, content, marketing, sales, product, and partnership teams.

You get creative. You are a seasoned creative with a background specializing in creating provocative, original concepts, content, and media against a strategy. You have a deep understanding of storytelling craft with movement and sound as your canvas. You lead others with a high taste level, providing clear creative direction in a way that provides clarity and inspiration to your team.

You get collaboration. It is critical that our creative leads can come up with breakthrough ideas of their own but are as comfortable helping teammates break through and partnering with agencies to elevate their work. You will be called on to work on your own at times and collaborate at others. You will balance working with both internal and external teams. You must be able to switch gears between the two. You will also be responsible for presenting ideas in meetings and managing feedback. Relationships with our stakeholders are critical. You will sometimes be the ranking creative in the room and will have to balance defending the work with truly listening in an environment that's new to creative. You will therefore also need to be a teacher and consultant to the executive team.

Most of all, you have to love to create, with everything that entails : Creative, content, community, comms, creating tribes. Concepting, iterating, reformulating, taking risks. Designing, crafting, presenting. Revising, recombining, fine-tuning. You have to love it all, because this team thrives on creative energy and carries the awesome opportunity to excite and inspire our employees and exemplify what great looks like.

Essential Job Functions

Lead the strategy, development and execution of a consistent, compelling visual brand identity across all channels including print, digital, social media, presentations, video, and experiential content.

Conceptualize and produce a wide range of creative deliverables including copywriting, web assets, email campaigns, digital ads, PDFs, sales decks, collateral, event materials, and video content.

Serve as both a strategic leader and hands-on creative, willing to roll up your sleeves to contribute directly to design, storytelling, and production when needed.

Translate creative strategies into business results through measurable ROI and attainment of OKRs.

Inspire and mentor a multidisciplinary team of designers, writers, editors, and producers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Provide clear, high-taste-level creative direction that empowers the team to deliver breakthrough ideas and high-quality execution aligned with business goals.

Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, sales, product, and partnership teams to ensure creative output drives measurable business outcomes and supports go-to-market strategies.

Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external agencies, balancing creative vision with strategic input and feedback.

Present creative concepts and campaign strategies to senior leadership, acting as both a consultant and educator in environments new to creative thinking.

Implement scalable systems, processes, and tools to streamline creative operations and ensure consistency, efficiency, and quality across all projects.

Stay current with design trends, storytelling techniques, and emerging technologies including AI tools to keep FranklinCovey's creative output innovative and competitive.

Demonstrate fluency in industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Asana, and generative AI platforms to support ideation, execution, and collaboration.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's or advanced degree in business, marketing, or related field

9+ years of experience in creative leadership roles

Preferred Skills & Experience

Demonstrated experience creating breakthrough storytelling and creative content for diverse audiences

Track record of developing and leading teams to develop world-class integrated creative campaigns

Understanding of 360-degree, full-spectrum media, including traditional, video, digital, and social

Experience with interdisciplinary creative, editorial, marketing, media, and production teams

A growth mindset, positive attitude, and demonstrated hunger for continuous learning

Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and consensus without clear authority

The diplomatic savvy to build positive and productive partnerships inside and out

A track record of proactively establishing and following through on commitments

Common sense problem-solving skills, always thinking about how to improve

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, employee stock purchasing program, 401(k), paid time off, holiday pay, and more. Please visit https : / / franklincoveybenefits.com / for details.

• Actual offer may be outside of this range and will be determined by education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as geographic location, internal equity and alignment with market data. Unless otherwise noted, applications will be accepted for a minimum of three (3) days from the initial published date on the FranklinCovey job board, but the posting may close at any time after the specified duration.

Employer Information

FranklinCovey is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please visit https : / / www.franklincovey.com / careers / notices-and-provisions / for our full Equal Employment Opportunity policies and Nondiscrimination Provision. Direct Reasonable Accommodation requests to accommodations@franklincovey.com. For our Privacy Policy, please visit https : / / www.franklincovey.com / privacy.