Remote: Associate Creative Director, Art — Lead Visual Strategy

Hey brilliant, creative friends - we're growing fast at RP3 Agency and have some exciting new creative roles open! And, bonus(!), the roles are remote.

See the roles below:

• Creative Director, Copy
• Copywriter
• Associate Creative Director, Art

Posted by:
Lee Taylor, Creative Director

At RP3, we believe wildly original ideas are the most powerful force in marketing.

The Associate Creative Director, Art is responsible for turning strategy, audience insight, and culture into original visual ideas that earn attention, build brands, and drive measurable results.

This role sits at the intersection of conceptual leadership, art direction, design, and hands-on making. The ideal candidate can lead teams and client conversations while still shaping the visual world, building a convincing comp, and improving the work through specific creative direction.

The Associate Creative Director, Art is a creative catalyst across the agency - partnering closely with copy, strategy, account leadership, media, and production; mentoring talent; and using AI and emerging tools deliberately to expand exploration without replacing taste, craft, or accountability.

• Leads teams to develop original, strategically grounded campaign platforms—not just polished executions.
• Creates integrated work that earns attention, strengthens brands, and drives measurable business impact.
• Raises the standard of concept, visual storytelling, and craft across multiple accounts and teams.
• Builds distinctive visual worlds that remain cohesive as ideas stretch across channels, formats, and moments.
• Earns client trust as a persuasive strategic and creative partner.
• Develops art directors, designers, copywriters, and emerging creative leaders through clear direction and generous feedback.
• Balances creative ambition with audience needs, business objectives, budgets, timelines, and production realities.
• Uses AI responsibly to accelerate visual exploration, comps, storyboards, and image development while protecting originality, confidentiality, intellectual property, and brand integrity.
• Contributes to work that strengthens RP3’s creative reputation and is worthy of industry recognition.

• Lead integrated concept development across multiple clients, industries, and business challenges.
• Partner with copywriters and multidisciplinary teams to translate a sharp human insight into a clear, ownable campaign platform.
• Guide teams through divergent thinking, selection, refinement, and execution—pushing beyond the first expected answer.
• Ensure every visual choice serves the central idea and every execution connects back to the strategy.
• Contribute original thinking to pitches, organic growth opportunities, agency initiatives, and thought leadership.

• Define distinctive visual directions across composition, typography, image-making, motion, interaction, and experience.
• Create and direct mood boards, style frames, storyboards, comps, and prototypes that make ideas tangible and help teams and clients see the possibility.
• Maintain a coherent brand world as work adapts across social, digital, video, print, experiential, and emerging channels.
• Review and refine work with clear, specific feedback that improves both the idea and the execution.

• Mentor art directors, designers, copywriters, and emerging creative leaders while adapting guidance to each person’s strengths and growth goals.
• Create an environment where collaboration, curiosity, experimentation, healthy debate, and continuous learning thrive.
• Set clear expectations, give timely feedback, and help team members build confidence, judgment, and greater creative ownership.
• Lead by example through curiosity, accountability, resilience, professionalism, and generosity.

• Frame, present, and sell creative ideas with a compelling visual narrative, strategic rationale, and confidence about how the work will come to life.
• Serve as a trusted advisor who understands the client’s business, brand, audience, competitive landscape, and appetite for creative risk.
• Navigate feedback and complex stakeholder dynamics while…