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Creative Director

Japan, Tokyo · Job Posted May 30, 2026
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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 creative representative of Tokyo studio
  • Work closely with strategy teams to shape briefs
  • Contribute to strategic development of creative brief
  • Lead by example to inspire creative colleagues
  • Generate useful ideas across digital platforms
  • Creatively lead new business pitches
  • Select most appropriate supplier
  • Lead multiple suppliers, partners and clients
  • Manage creatives as direct reports
  • Provide supportive working environment
  • Set clear and achievable goals
  • Address performance/conduct issues
  • Lead collaborative multidisciplinary teams to winning awards
  • Manage multiple suppliers, partners and customers
  • Keep stakeholders informed
  • Understand client business goals and ambitions
  • Take briefs from clients and create stories

Requirements

  • Deliver and inspire award-winning work from both yourself and others
  • Lead, direct and manage cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse set of talents
  • Create ground-breaking work that positively impacts clients, teams and the world
  • Foster and line-manage creatives eager to grow their craft in art direction, copywriting or design
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments
  • Act as creative representative of Tokyo studio within and outside AKQA network, in Japanese and in English
  • Work closely with strategy teams to shape briefs
  • Contributes to strategic development of a well-defined creative brief
  • Leads by example to consistently inspire creative colleagues
  • Generates useful, usable ideas across all existing and emerging digital platforms
  • Creatively leads new business pitches
  • Responsible for crisp ideas and creative workflow
  • Effective and dynamic storyteller for oral pitch presentation in both Japanese & English
  • Selects most appropriate supplier for required task
  • Successfully leads multiple suppliers, partners and clients to ensure outsourced projects are creatively delivered on time, within budget and to highest standards
  • Manages creatives as direct reports
  • Provides an international and supportive working environment
  • Sets clear and achievable goals
  • Takes immediate action to address performance/conduct issues
  • Demonstrates creative success in leading collaborative multidisciplinary teams to winning industry recognized awards
  • Successfully manages multiple suppliers, partners and customers
  • Keeps stakeholders informed of project progress
  • Understands client business goals and ambitions
  • Takes briefs from clients and creates stories that communicate client's needs and ambitions
  • Seen as transformational leader driving change
  • Articulates compelling business case
  • Creates environment challenging traditional thinking and status quo
  • Able to deftly manage most senior client expectations
  • Develops strategies to build climate of trust, openness and respect
  • Sets tone for team believing nothing else matters without greatest work
  • Possesses strong bias to action and consistently delivers high quality work within required timeframes
  • Develops long-term strategic partnerships supporting business growth
  • Aligns own and team objectives with overall business objectives
  • Possesses highly advanced writing skills
  • Commands attention of audience during presentations
  • Please submit your resume and portfolio (PDF or website link) when applying
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