VML & Ogilvy | Creative Director, Japan

The role

Lead creative strategy and execution for key clients across Beauty, Feminine Care, and Tech. Own integrated campaigns from idea to delivery and guide multidisciplinary creative teams.

What you will do

• Lead creative strategies and concepts for clients across Beauty, Feminine Care, and Tech
• Take creative leadership for a major Feminine Care business, including TVC production and production control
• Drive ideation across PR, activation, digital, and commerce
• Lead creative work across social media and content production
• Partner with strategy, data, media, and marketing platform teams to turn insights, including data and AI learnings, into creative solutions
• Lead and develop the creative team, coaching talent and raising creative standards
• Own client presentations and workshops in Japanese and English
• Direct high-quality visual outputs, especially key visuals and product cut work in Beauty

Required qualifications

• Experience in an agency or in-house creative organization at Lead, ACD or CD level
• Strong creative leadership in Beauty and/or Feminine Care
• Proven experience leading TVC production and managing production control
• Ideation and execution experience across PR, activation, digital, and commerce
• Deep understanding of social media and content production
• Confident presentation capability in Japanese and English
• Business-level English, with presentation capability required
• Native-level Japanese, with presentation capability required
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Keynote/PowerPoint

Nice to have

• Tech experience
• Experience using generative AI for ideation and/or AI agents in creative workflows
• Strong interest in data and AI-enabled marketing platforms

Before you apply

• Creative background may be copy-based or art-based

About the company

VML & Ogilvy Japan GK was established in April 2019 as a partnership between Geometry Global and The Ogilvy Group. It is a WPP company.