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Creative Director

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As a Creative Director and the leader of the AKQA Tokyo (part of WPP) studio’s Creative department, you will create and inspire work that is distinctive, unfamiliar, effective and truly remarkable to make a difference to consumers’ behavior through ideas, creativity and the use of interactive media. You will inspire and lead a team to raise their bar even higher, mentoring a team, leading by example and championing the discipline in the wider agency and beyond.

Job Responsibility:

  • Deliver and inspire award-winning work
  • Lead, direct and manage cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse set of talents
  • Create ground-breaking work
  • Foster and line-manage creatives
  • Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments
  • Act as the creative representative of the Tokyo studio
  • Work closely with the strategy teams to shape briefs
  • Contributes to strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and any additional briefing documents
  • Leads by example to consistently inspire creative colleagues
  • Creatively leads new business pitches
  • Selects most appropriate supplier for required task
  • Manages creatives as direct reports
  • Successfully manages multiple suppliers, partners and customers
  • Understand client business goals and ambitions

Requirements:

  • Deliver and inspire award-winning work
  • Lead, direct and manage cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse set of talents
  • Create ground-breaking work
  • Foster and line-manage creatives
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments
  • Act as the creative representative of the Tokyo studio within and outside AKQA network
  • Work closely with the strategy teams to shape briefs

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Job Posted:
May 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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