Head of Marketing and Creative

Are you a strategic marketing creative who thrives at the intersection of bold vision and disciplined strategy? Do you excel at transforming complex organizational challenges into compelling, integrated campaigns that captivate audiences across digital, print, video, and emerging media platforms? Montage is looking for a Head of Marketing & Creative who can lead with both intellectual rigor and imaginative power – elevating ideas into distinctive, high‑impact work for private and public sector clients alike.

This is a full‑time, exempt position working a hybrid schedule at Montage’s Rockville, MD office and the employee’s home office. The anticipated annual salary for this position is $115,000–$125,000.

The Head of Marketing and Creative is a senior leader responsible for defining and driving the organization’s strategic marketing vision while overseeing the full spectrum of creative and multimedia production services delivered to clients. This role blends high‑level strategic marketing expertise with advanced conceptual leadership, guiding the development of bold, differentiated, and compelling campaigns that move audiences and achieve measurable impact.

The ideal candidate is both a strategist and a conceptual architect – capable of translating complex business objectives into cohesive, compelling, and visually powerful narratives across digital, print, video, and emerging media platforms (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence). This hands‑on leader will guide, coach, and develop teams of subject‑matter experts to elevate creative standards, strengthen client relationships, and ensure marketing solutions are innovative, data‑informed, and aligned with organizational goals.

• Define, document, and execute the organization’s marketing and creative strategy across client engagements, business development initiatives, and internal brand positioning, ensuring alignment to company growth objectives and client outcomes.
• Act as a senior strategic advisor to clients, leading discovery and strategy sessions to translate complex customer, policy, regulatory, or organizational challenges into clear marketing frameworks, campaign architectures, and actionable creative briefs.
• Design and oversee integrated, multichannel campaign strategies, aligning brand, messaging, audience insights, and channel selection to drive measurable performance outcomes and contract deliverables.
• Lead long‑range marketing and creative planning, developing roadmaps and phased execution plans for a diverse portfolio of engagements, including large‑scale public‑sector and highly regulated initiatives.
• Set and enforce creative quality and strategic standards, reviewing and approving creative output to ensure work reflects intellectual rigor, originality, and strategic coherence, and meets or exceeds client requirements, brand guidelines, and contractual expectations.

• Lead the conceptual development of high‑impact, differentiated campaigns, setting the creative vision for work that is strategically grounded, emotionally resonant, and clearly distinct in the market.
• Facilitate and lead concept‑generation processes, including strategy workshops, creative discovery sessions, storyboard reviews, and concept inception phases, ensuring ideas are rooted in audience insight and aligned to campaign objectives.
• Provide executive oversight to all creative disciplines, including graphic design, brand development, copywriting, multimedia storytelling, and video production, ensuring seamless collaboration and consistent creative execution across teams.
• Elevate creative quality and consistency by establishing and enforcing design systems, brand frameworks, and quality‑control standards, ensuring creative output is scalable, repeatable, and aligned with both client and organizational brand expectations.
• Champion a culture of experimentation and innovation, encouraging teams to test new approaches in narrative structure, visual language, and cross‑platform engagement while balancing creative risk with strategic intent.
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