Executive Creative Director

Oxford Road

6d•$170,000 - $210,000

About The Position

The Executive Creative Director is Oxford Road’s most senior creative leader, accountable for the quality, performance, and culture of the Creative department’s work across host-read, pre-produced audio, and bespoke 360-degree campaigns. The role sets and maintains creative standards across every client account, ensures work is reviewed before delivery, and connects creative decisions to measurable client outcomes through performance data and testing. The ECD leads and develops writers and producers across Bespoke and Format tiers and host-read and pre-produced disciplines. The role owns Audiolytics’ application within the department, talent onboarding and feedback, senior-level client and talent relationships, and Creative’s contribution to new-business pitches and creator-first partnerships. It establishes a test-and-learn culture by bringing creative hypotheses into partnership with Analytics, which owns test design, statistical analysis, and tracking infrastructure. The position has final decision-making authority over creative quality and what ships, and directs the creative team in service of quality and performance. It reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and escalates resource, capacity, and structural gaps with recommendations. The role does not own media plans, client contracts, agency pricing, production costs, P&L, or testing infrastructure.

Requirements

10 or more years of experience in creative leadership.
A track record of owning creative quality across multiple accounts or productions simultaneously.
Deep fluency in audio advertising, including host-read, pre-produced, and bespoke formats.
Demonstrated ability to connect creative decisions to measurable performance outcomes.
Comfort working with data, analytics teams, and test-and-learn frameworks as inputs to creative direction.
Experience leading and developing creative teams across writing and production disciplines.
Ability to coach teams and set creative standards, rather than only work as an individual practitioner.
A strong, articulable point of view on effective audio creative, including clarity of message, authenticity of voice, and structure that converts.
Experience owning or contributing to high-stakes new-business pitches, including concept development, creative presentation, and demo work.
Comfort working directly with talent, including onboarding hosts, providing structured feedback, and maintaining senior-level creative relationships.
A bias toward ownership, including raising standards proactively and maintaining quality under deadline pressure.

Nice To Haves

Strong audio or podcast creative background.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end creative quality across all client accounts, reviewing work before it reaches clients and giving direct feedback to writers.
Maintain distinct craft standards for host-read and pre-produced creative.
Own the use and development of Audiolytics as a benchmark and coaching tool integrated with compliance and performance data.
Drive automation of Audiolytics processes to scale them without adding manual burden to writers.
Own talent onboarding, briefing, product familiarization, and structured ongoing feedback for hosts.
Work with Analytics and account teams to establish performance baselines and translate performance data into creative direction.
Ensure market learnings inform future writing, casting, coaching, and creative briefs.
Bring creative hypotheses to testing in partnership with Analytics and make test-ready briefs, including planned variants, standard practice.
Lead and develop the full creative team across Bespoke and Format writing tiers and host-read and pre-produced production disciplines.
Serve as the senior creative point of contact for key clients and talent, maintaining direct relationships.
Own Creative’s contribution to new-business pitches, including concept development, decks, demo work, and a repeatable functional, emotional, and host-story approach.
Own creative support for bespoke, creator-first partnerships and 360-degree campaigns linking show content, social, newsletters, and onsite activation.
Surface new formats, offerings, and creative opportunities to agency leadership.
Coordinate with Compliance, Analytics, account and client growth teams, Creator Partnerships, Finance, and agency leadership as appropriate.
Escalate resource, capacity, and structural gaps to the Chief Executive Officer with recommendations.