Executive Creative Director (ECD)

MrBeast • Greenville, NC

15d

About The Position

Beast Industries, founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast), is a media and entertainment company focused on entertaining, inspiring, and creating social impact. The company operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and business initiatives. The Executive Creative Director (ECD) is the senior creative leader responsible for the operational creative execution across Beast Industries, ensuring consistency, quality, and speed in creative work for secondary YouTube channels, social content, commercial products, services, and brand partnerships. This role involves translating creative vision into scalable execution, leading a high-performing creative organization, and maintaining high creative standards across a growing portfolio.

Requirements

• 10+ years of senior creative leadership experience in digital media, high-growth entertainment, or leading creative agencies.
• Demonstrated experience leading creative teams through high-volume production and post-production environments.
• Expert understanding of the YouTube ecosystem, social video platforms, and audience retention strategies.
• Experience developing creative assets for commercial products, consumer services, or major brand partnerships.
• Proven ability to operationalize creative strategy and lead multidisciplinary creative teams under demanding production timelines.
• Experience scaling creative operations within a founder-led or rapidly growing organization.
• Deep knowledge of post-production pipelines, visual effects, and design systems.
• Experience integrating commercial products into digital content.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deliver clear, actionable creative feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative execution across secondary YouTube channels, product marketing campaigns, service launches, and partnership activations.
• Oversee daily creative operations, ensuring projects, resources, and production timelines align with departmental priorities.
• Maintain quality control across production and post-production, ensuring all creative assets adhere to established brand standards and creative direction.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of creative leaders, editors, designers, and copywriters.
• Translate strategic creative direction from the Head of Viral Marketing into actionable production roadmaps and execution plans.
• Partner with Growth, Commerce, and Product teams to deliver creative work that supports commercial objectives while maintaining viral appeal.
• Build and optimize creative workflows that enable high-volume production without compromising quality.
• Drive consistency across visual storytelling for secondary YouTube channels, commercial products, consumer services, and brand partnerships.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
• Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
• Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
• Company-provided technology package
• Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed