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Creative Director

Japan, Tokyo · Job Posted February 04, 2026
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As a Creative Director and the leader of the AKQA Tokyo 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

  • Creative briefs: Contributes to strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and any additional briefing documents, speaking with the client directly when necessary
  • Idea generation: Leads by example to consistently inspire creative colleagues to originate world-class, pioneering ideas that conceptualize world-class solutions
  • New business development: Creatively leads new business pitches
  • Creative craft skills: Selects most appropriate supplier for required task
  • Team management: Manages creatives as direct reports
  • Stakeholder management: Successfully manages multiple suppliers, partners and customers to ensure the best outcome for both customer and AKQA
  • Client Leadership: Understand client business goals and ambitions

Requirements

  • Deliver and inspire award-winning work from both yourself and others who work with you, influencing where appropriate a dramatic change through ideas, creativity and the use of interactive media
  • Lead, direct and manage cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse set of talents, both internal and external to AKQA to deliver successful solutions and high-quality works to clients on time
  • Create ground-breaking work that positively impacts our clients, our teams and the world
  • Foster and line-manage creatives that are 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, and successfully apply them to work practices to help improve processes and procedures
  • Act as the creative representative of the Tokyo studio within and outside AKQA network, in Japanese and in English
  • Work with other AKQA network creatives collaboratively on joint initiatives
  • Work closely with the strategy teams to shape briefs that empower our teams to deliver work that pushes our client's brand to the forefront of their global audience's minds
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