Hiring: Group Creative Director - Social Innovation, 360i Company: dentsu Location: New York, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:42:02 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Spark About the job Experience: •13+ years in creative/content leadership with a track record of shipping platform‑native, multi‑format systems that drive measurable business impact. Required Skills: •Connected Content Lead (aka: Group Creative Director) •This leader will join while we’re building and be able to put their fingerprints in the vision and how we build the offering from the beginning, developing our perspective, how we go to market and ultimately delivering best in class work that breaks the internet. •This role can be located in any of our US office locations including: Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago or New York. Please include a portfolio. •Be responsible for championing great ideas from spark to impact, not only identifying the creative potential in unconventional places, but also nurturing it, shaping it, and ensuring it survives the journey from concept to culture. •See the potential in ideas early, whether they originate from creators, strategists, AI-assisted exploration, social signals, or cross disciplinary collaborators, and amplify them into culturally resonant, brand elevating work. •Raise the creative bar continuously, modeling the behaviors and instincts that reflect Dentsu Creative’s aspiration to “scale creativity” -- helping teams climb “the mountain” toward work that is more original, more culturally attuned, and more meaningful. •Push beyond traditional formats and channels, encouraging experimentation, embracing nonlinear storytelling, and championing nontraditional pathways to making (from creator collaborations to AI driven idea exploration). •Nurture diverse creative talent, creating space for emerging voices, new makers, and unconventional thinkers, cultivating an environment where creativity can come from anyone, anywhere, at any stage of the process. Qualifications: •Command of creator/influencer ecosystems, platform dynamics, and rights/governance frameworks. •Hands‑on fluency in AI‑assisted creative workflows across ideation, production, and optimization. •Strong executive presence with C‑suite audiences and ability to articulate complex systems simply. •Work within 360i’s lean leadership nucleus alongside Strategy, Activation, and Analytics leads and across the broader Dentsu operating model. •Operate from an AI‑first perspective across audience building, ideation, content creation, activation, and measurement. •Make distribution‑informed creative decisions and loop learnings back into the system each cycle. •As we re‑ignite 360i, we need a leader who can turn speed into a system - a builder who treats creators, influencers, AI, and production partners as equal inputs in a connected engine, and who can ship with taste, rigor, and accountability. •The annual base salary range for this position is $197,000 - $300,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. •Medical, vision, and dental insurance, Life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 401k, Flexible paid time off, At least 15 paid holidays per year, Paid sick and safe leave, and Paid parental leave. •Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. Compensation: •$197,000 - $300,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!