M&C Saatchi World Services is a full-service marketing company renowned for using commercial advertising to solve the world’s toughest challenges. World Services is a specialty branch of M&C Saatchi Group, and we provide strategic communications, behavior change, and marketing support to Public Sector clients with special emphasis on the US Federal Government and State, Local, Tribal, & Territorial leaders.

M&C Saatchi World Services US is seeking a highly creative and strategic Creative Content Director to lead the vision and delivery of world-class creative output across the programme. This is a senior leadership role, responsible for setting the creative direction and ensuring consistently high standards across all channels, including digital, print, video, and experiential content.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As Creative Content Director, you’ll oversee the development of compelling, audience-first creative that brings campaigns and communications to life. From multimedia storytelling and brand assets to high-impact presentations and campaigns, you’ll provide hands-on creative direction while ensuring everything aligns with brand, accessibility, and organisational standards.You’ll also play a key role in mentoring and developing a multidisciplinary creative team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid role; however, the ideal candidate will live in the greater NYC area or the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region.

What you'll do:

• Serve as the senior creative authority for the program, providing vision, direction, and quality oversight across all creative disciplines.

• Develop and enforce visual identity standards, ensuring consistency across digital, print, video, and experiential content.

• Provide hands-on creative direction for campaigns, graphics, animations, multimedia storytelling, and high-profile communication products.

• Guide the design and review of complex creative outputs including brand assets, multimedia packages, templates, and high-impact presentations.

• Ensure all creative work aligns with accessibility standards (Section 508/WCAG), federal guidelines, and organizational quality requirements.

• Collaborate with UX, content, data, and digital teams to ensure creative solutions support user experience and mission outcomes.

• Mentor designers, videographers, editors, and multimedia staff to elevate overall creative performance.

• Lead creative reviews, provide constructive direction, and approve final deliverables.

• Support rapid-turn content development for high-visibility initiatives.

• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on design trends, tools, and immersive technologies applicable to federal communications.

You’ll bring:

• Proven experience in creative leadership, multimedia production, visual communications, art direction, or related fields.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality creative work for complex organizations or public-facing programs.

• Experience guiding multidisciplinary creative teams and providing expert-level design direction.

• Mastery of design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere).

• Strong knowledge of multimedia production workflows and creative asset management.

• Deep understanding of branding, accessibility, layout, typography, and visual storytelling.

• Experience developing creative standards, templates, and repeatable design systems.

• Experience supporting federal, DoD, or large-scale communications programs.

• Familiarity with immersive technologies (AR/VR), motion graphics, and high-end multimedia production.

• Exceptional creative leadership and vision.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills across diverse teams.

• Ability to produce, review, and refine high-quality creative outputs under tight deadlines.

• Excellent problem-solving and conceptual thinking abilities.

• High attention to detail, quality, accessibility, and brand alignment.

WHAT YOU GET

We offer a competitive salary ($130,000-$165,000) and a benefits package designed to support your health, family life, financial wellbeing, and growth.

Family & parental support

• 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)

• Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy

• Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)

• 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents

• $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan

• $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan

Healthcare & wellbeing

• Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)

• $0 employee-cost dental and vision

• 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)

• 24/7 mental health support through Self Space

• Wellhub subscription

Financial & practical support

• 401(k) match (3% after 3 months; 4% after 1 year)

• Pre-tax commuter benefits

• 10 days’ paid military leave

• Full pay for jury duty (state/city payments declined)

• Uber/taxi home after 9:30pm

Time off & flexibility

• 23 days’ PTO (with 3 discretionary carryover days; CA/CO policies follow state mandate)

• 10 federal holidays, plus the day after Thanksgiving

• Option to swap 2 federal holidays (excluding Thanksgiving and the day after)

• Office closed between Christmas and New Year

• 10 days’ special emergency leave (including bereavement)

• 10 days’ volunteering leave (5 paid, 5 unpaid)

• Half-day for blood donation

• Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks per year (subject to approval)

Culture & development

• $300 annual cultural stimulation allowance (accrued monthly; available after 90 days)

• Weekly Thursday happy hour

• Mentorship and Buddy programmes

ABOUT M+C SAATCHI WORLD SERVICES

M&C Saatchi World Services is a specialist division of M+C Saatchi Group, the world’s largest independent communications network. Our specialists work in office hubs across six continents, grounding our global expertise in local nuance.

We offer award-winning commercial communications capabilities, which are utilized by global organizations to address the world’s most complex problems across defence, development, diplomacy, homeland and national security, law and order, health, education, and the environment.

We work with clients that want to help the hardest-to-reach, hardest-to-influence audiences. This includes a range of Western Government departments, such as DOS and USAID; partner governments, including the U.K. and Australia; and prominent IGOs/NGOs such as the U.N.

We are a comms agency that works on behaviour change projects typically focused on issues related to Security, Defence and Stabilization. Whether it’s producing critically acclaimed feature films in Africa, to TV shows in the Middle East, to pop music videos in Asia, we have a record of leveraging creativity to access communities anywhere in the world.