Creative director

HardScope is a creator media company. We build and operate original IP franchises with the world's most culturally influential creators, giving them equity in what we develop together. Our O&O properties, HardScope and FaZe Clan, are launching this year with new original programming with both emerging and established Creators. Behind the content operation is an investment arm, industry-leading creative and production, modern distribution, and a commerce development arm built to scale creator-led businesses.

Our agency practice comes from people who spent years on the inside, building the cultural moments that capture a generation's attention. We bring that experience to the brands we partner with.

You will own the creative output for HardScope's anchor client relationships and shape how HardScope's creative identity shows up across campaigns, creator integrations, and original IP.

You report directly into agency leadership and work cross-functionally across studio, talent, and brand. Building a creative team is the expectation over time.

This role is for someone who has run creative inside an agency and understands the creator economy from having operated inside it.

• Own the creative vision and execution for HardScope's Agency of Record client relationships, including a flagship client in the sports betting and entertainment category
• Oversee creative partnerships including creator integrations, original IP, and campaigns across social, content, partnerships, experiential, and brand communications
• Shape how creator talent integrates into brand partnerships from concept through delivery, ensuring the work holds for both the brand and the creator
• Build the creative standards, briefs, and frameworks the agency team runs on

• Partner with the studio team on show concepts, franchise pitches, and content identity
• Translate cultural insights into format ideas with commercial application
• Help define the visual and editorial identity of HardScope's owned programming

• Present creative to clients, talent, and internal leadership
• Collaborate with strategy, account, and production across the full brief-to-execution arc
• Direct external collaborators: designers, motion artists, directors, animators

• 6 to 10+ years of agency creative experience, with a portfolio showing both conceptual range and execution craft
• Direct experience in the creator economy: having built inside it, developed creator-led campaigns, or worked at a creator-native company
• The ability to generate original ideas, not just execute briefs
• Experience building integrated campaigns across social, digital, content, and experiential
• Sharp writing across campaign copy, decks, scripts, and brand voice
• Comfort presenting directly to clients and senior stakeholders
• Deep fluency in internet culture, Gen Z behavior, and fandom

• Experience at a media brand or entertainment company alongside agency background
• Experience directing shoots or content productions
• Familiarity with creator talent dynamics and management relationships

Compensation: $130K - $170K based on experience