Creative Director

Location: Metro Community Church

Reports To: Lead Pastor

Status: Full-Time

Ministry Area: Worship & Creative Arts

The Creative Director provides vision, leadership, and oversight for all creative elements of ourchurch — including visual branding, media, communications, worship environments, digital content, and production elements. This role champions the church’s identity and mission through compelling storytelling and design while fostering innovation, collaboration, and spiritual impact across all ministries and platforms.

• Provide leadership and direction for the overall creative and worship-aligned strategy in support of Metro’s mission, vision, and ministry goals.
• Maintain a firm grasp of Metro’s beliefs, values, and strategic direction, ensuring all creative and worship initiatives are theologically aligned and missionally focused.
• Partner with pastoral, worship, and ministry leadership to align creative direction, worship programming, and series planning with sermon series, events, and church vision.
• Provide leadership and alignment across staff, leadership teams, and volunteers to ensure unified direction and clarity in worship and creative expression.
• Oversee the development and execution of creative campaigns, themes, and experiences across services, events, and seasons (e.g., Easter, Christmas, Kick-off Weekend, Fallapalooza, Worship Nights, Found & Free Worship Band, Concerts, Conferences).
• Provide overarching leadership for all components of worship programming—including music, audio, video, lighting, creative elements, and series planning—working through worship, production, and creative leaders.

• Provide leadership and accountability for all details related to the planning and execution of dynamic worship services, events, and ministry programs.
• Facilitate creative brainstorm sessions with staff and key leaders to generate fresh ideas and innovative elements for service and event programming.
• Collaborate closely with communicators and teaching pastors to ensure a consistent, unified message is expressed across all program elements (music, video, offering moments, next steps, transitions, and storytelling).
• Lead and oversee weekly programming meetings to coordinate music, video, technical, and creative elements used in worship services and ministry events.
• Establish rhythms of evaluation and critique to maintain a high standard of excellence, assess effectiveness, and monitor the spiritual and engagement impact of worship and service programming.

• Cast vision for and steward the overall musical direction of Metro, ensuring it consistently reflects the church’s vision, values, and ministry goals.
• Provide leadership and oversight of the philosophy, systems, and timelines related to the development of dynamic worship and music sets.
• Create and manage systems and processes that guide teams in developing a worship series from initial concept through full implementation.
• Establish clear goals and accountability that encourage music staff and leaders to network, recruit, and develop musicians and vocalists.
• Support and develop worship and music leaders to ensure musical excellence, spiritual depth, and cultural relevance.

• Provide leadership for the people, philosophy, systems, and timelines related to video production for worship services and ministry initiatives.
• Work closely with video leadership and team members to ensure the creation of creative, effective promotional and in-service video content, including concept development, scripting, production, editing, and post-production.
• Set strategy and creative direction for how video is used to communicate Metro’s…