Creative Director

About Northern

Headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, Northern is an integrated digital solutions agency specializing in helping leading commercial and public service brands navigate digital change. By leveraging our expertise and deep understanding of our clients’ businesses, we collaborate to design, create, and enable tailored digital experiences that drive growth.

Northern is positioned as a leader in the performance advertising industry as a Meta and Google Premier Partner awarded to only 3% of agency partners in Canada. Our campaigns with leading brands in North America have been recognized as best in class through the Google Premier Partner Awards, Search Engine Land Awards, and the Canadian Search Awards.

Since our founding in 2015, Northern has grown into a team of 200+ digital experts, receiving multiple recognitions in employee engagement from Great Place to Work® Canada, including Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion, Women, Mental Health, Hybrid Work, and more.

We are looking for a strategic Creative Director to lead Northern's Marketing Design Team and help shape the creative thinking behind the work we deliver for our clients.

At Northern, the Creative Director sits at the intersection of creative strategy, design, performance marketing and team leadership. This role is responsible for translating client business objectives, audience insights and performance data into compelling creative strategies and ideas that drive measurable results.

The Creative Director leads campaign ideation, facilitates creative discovery and workshops, presents and defends creative recommendations to clients, and partners closely with Paid Media, Strategy, Email, UX, Development and Account teams to ensure creative thinking is integrated throughout the customer journey.

As the leader of the Marketing Design Team, the Creative Director establishes a high creative standard while developing the people, processes and capabilities required to deliver consistently strong work le primarily a leadership and strategic role, this person is comfortable remaining close to the work and stepping into hands-on creative direction or execution when needed.

** Full‑time remote is available nationally. Our Connected Workplace Program gives you the option to choose a remote, hybrid, or in‑office workspace! Preference will be given to someone who can easily attend meetings in person as required at our head office in London, ON

In exchange for your talent and expertise, Northern is committed to providing:

• Benefits plan, including a Health Spending Account
• Wellness Program & Life Works EAP
• Fitness Reimbursement Program
• Vet Care Program
• RRSP Matching
• Profit-Sharing Performance Bonuses
• Endless Professional Growth Opportunities
• Delicious Meals & Company Social Events
• Free Onsite Parking
• Referral Bonus Program
• Flexible work environment - so you can work where & when you work best
• Allowance to help set up home office

• Lead creative strategy & Direction across key client accounts, translating business objectives, audience insights, channel strategy and brand positioning into compelling creative approaches.
• Drive campaign ideation and concept development, establishing clear creative territories and guiding ideas from strategy through execution.
• Lead performance creative strategy in partnership with Paid Media, using campaign performance and testing insights to develop hypotheses and continuously improve the work.
• Facilitate creative discovery sessions, brainstorms and client workshops that turn complex business challenges into actionable creative opportunities.
• Present and defend creative strategies to clients and stakeholders, clearly articulating the thinking behind recommendations.
• Bring strong conceptual and copywriting instincts to shape messaging, campaign platforms and creative narratives.

• Act as a senior creative partner to clients, contributing strategic perspective beyond individual deliverables.
• Collaborate with Strategy, Paid Media, Email, UX, Development, Account and Project…