Creative Director, Associate Partner

Prophet is looking for a Design leadership partner to help expand its Design capability and deliver transformative brand and customer experiences. This hybrid role in New York, NY combines creative direction with strategic and commercial leadership, plus senior-stakeholder advisory across Prophet’s offerings.

As a Creative Director and Associate Partner, you will build and deepen client relationships by delivering exceptional creative work that informs strategic decisions. You will lead multidisciplinary engagements across areas such as brand identity, experience, activation, and campaigns, while championing design excellence grounded in business strategy. You will also contribute to firm-wide efforts beyond Design, supporting Prophet’s broader strategy, culture, and growth agenda.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong client relationships through high-impact, multidisciplinary work delivered through effective collaboration across Prophet’s offerings
• Lead client engagements including brand identity, experience, activation, and campaign work streams
• Elevate creative quality by grounding recommendations in business strategy and serving as a champion for design excellence
• Shape business development work by contributing to proposals and pitches through thought leadership and subject matter expertise
• Support firm-wide contributions beyond Design, aligning creative leadership to Prophet’s strategy, culture, and growth agenda
• Deliver against commercial targets, including sales, utilization, and profitability goals
• Contribute to Prophet’s global studio culture by helping maintain consistent standards across geographies
• Travel as needed to engage clients, build teams, and represent Prophet
• Lead and inspire a high-performing team of design experts as part of the Design Leadership Team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and professional growth
• Continue building and recruiting world-class design talent for Prophet’s growing global creative team
• Model Prophet’s performance-driven, collaborative, entrepreneurial culture while fostering belonging and shared success
• Integrate with Prophet’s broader consulting teams to ensure design work is embedded in and elevates strategic impact

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in brand design, experience design, creative strategy, innovation, campaign, or related disciplines, ideally in a consultancy or agency environment
• 5+ years leading and selling strategic creative solutions to senior client stakeholders
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams across strategy, design, and digital disciplines
• Experience building capabilities, methodologies, and frameworks that elevate design organizations
• Deep expertise in brand identity, experience design, design systems, campaign ideation, and creative strategy
• A strong portfolio showing strategic impact, creative excellence, and AI deployment across design work streams
• Persuasive presentation, facilitation, and storytelling skills
• Ability to inspire teams and build a culture of creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Intellectual curiosity and a creative spirit that supports innovative thinking and breakthrough design solutions
• Motivation to grow a business and build a market-leading design practice
• Eagerness to inspire a growing team of world-class designers

Location & Compensation

• Location: New York, NY (Hybrid, 3+ days per week in office and/or at client)
• Salary range: USD 230,000 - 280,000 per year