Creative Director

About The Role

As a Creative Director at Mint, you are responsible for shaping and driving the creative vision across multiple accounts, teams, and business verticals. You lead work from initial insight through to execution, ensuring it delivers against strategic, brand, and business objectives while meeting the agency’s standard of creative excellence.

You are a key cross-functional partner to Strategy, Production, and Business Leadership—bringing clarity, cohesion, and ambition to every stage of the creative process. Beyond day-to-day output, you play a critical role in defining Mint’s creative future, elevating standards, and contributing to long-term innovation and growth.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Lead and inspire breakthrough creative across accounts, channels, and disciplines
• Translate strategic insights into compelling, effective creative solutions
• Uphold and continuously raise the bar for creative excellence across all work
• Ensure consistency and integrity of brand storytelling across touchpoints

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• Mentor and develop ACDs, senior creatives, and broader team members
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and support to elevate craft and thinking
• Contribute to hiring, team structuring, and long-term talent planning
• Foster a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and high performance

Client Partnership

• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Lead presentations, pitches, and high-stakes creative conversations
• Articulate and defend creative work with confidence and clarity
• Ensure all creative output is grounded in measurable business impact

Operational & Strategic Contribution

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to optimize workflow and resourcing
• Contribute to agency planning, goal setting, and creative standards
• Support new business efforts through pitch leadership and concept development
• Help scale creative systems and processes as the agency grows

Agency & Industry Presence

• Act as a creative ambassador for Mint, internally and externally
• Contribute to thought leadership, industry participation, and awards initiatives
• Help shape and evolve Mint’s creative reputation and point of view
• Champion a culture that reflects the agency’s ambition, values, and craft

About Mint

We’re a creative agency made up of culture creatures with multidisciplinary expertise across all major marketing disciplines. Driven by creativity and inspired by humanity, we focus on brand love between companies and people.

Our best work is done through true partnership, as an extension of and advisor to our clients. At Mint, everyone is welcome! We're all about diversity and inclusion—it doesn't matter where you come from or your background. We want you to feel at home and empowered to be yourself. Need accommodations? We will do our best; you have to let us know.

Our Values

• Empathy - We believe the work is better when we consider the world through the eyes of others.
• Optimism - We believe in the good above all else: the good in people, the good in the world and our future.
• Audaciousness - We are brave enough to try the untried and unexpected. And we dare always to follow through.
• Progressiveness - We fear the status quo, so we break conventions and push to evolve, innovate and disrupt.
• Kindness - We are respectful, honest, transparent, inclusive, social and good to each other.

Pay range and compensation package: $160,000 to $170,000

General Employment Terms

• This job description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role and is not exhaustive.
• Duties, responsibilities, and reporting relationships may evolve based on business needs.
• Nothing in this job description is intended to limit or reduce any minimum employment standards or entitlements under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000, as amended.