Thinkingbox
Global creative agency producing brand videos
Creative Director
+ 401(k) match
Four days in the office Monday through Thursday; Fridays are optionally remote.
About the job
- 8–12+ years of agency experience with a portfolio demonstrating award-worthy, social-first, campaign-driven work.
- Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale, integrated campaigns rooted in strong conceptual thinking.
- A track record of setting creative direction and elevating the work across teams, brands, and disciplines.
- Deep cultural fluency and an instinctive understanding of how brands earn attention in today’s landscape.
- Exceptional creative judgment across art, copy, and storytelling, with a high bar for craft and execution.
- Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with experience building and developing high-performing creative teams.
- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and selling bold ideas with clarity and conviction.
- Strong production knowledge, with the ability to bring ambitious ideas to life at the highest level.
- Define and lead the creative vision across multiple accounts, ensuring all work is strategically grounded and culturally impactful.
- Drive big, integrated campaign platforms from brief through execution, elevating thinking beyond individual deliverables.
- Lead and inspire ideation, setting the bar for original, conversation-driving ideas that resonate in culture.
- Oversee and refine creative output across all touchpoints, ensuring consistency, quality, and craft at the highest level.
- Partner with strategy and client leadership to shape briefs, identify opportunities, and influence brand direction.
- Present and sell transformative ideas to senior clients, articulating both creative ambition and business impact.
- Provide senior-level art direction and creative oversight, guiding teams through execution without compromising the idea.
- Lead, mentor, and grow creative teams, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
- Champion creative integrity throughout production, ensuring the vision is protected from concept through final delivery.
- Stay deeply connected to culture and emerging platforms, bringing forward-thinking, relevant ideas to every engagement.
About the company
Thinkingbox is a global creative collective that produces high-quality digital content to help brands tell their stories. It offers services in video production, animations, and digital media across North America and other regions through localized content. It partners with brands to develop and execute campaigns from concept through post-production, earning revenue from project-based work and ongoing collaborations. Its approach combines scalable end-to-end storytelling with localized content to help brands build recognition, engagement, and growth.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2009
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- 2026 Tinder Canada work shows Thinkingbox still wins culturally relevant consumer campaigns.
- Corey Hankey's 2024 COO role should tighten operations and client retention.
- Alex Panousis as chief growth officer strengthens new-business capture across North America.
What critics are saying
- Creative services face commoditization as clients shift spend to in-house teams.
- Dependency on marquee accounts like Adobe and Riot Games creates renewal concentration risk.
- If growth stalls, Thinkingbox's acquired-office model becomes an integration drag across markets.
What makes Thinkingbox unique
- Thinkingbox spans six offices and combines production, strategy, and technology.
- Corey Hankey became COO in 2024, signaling disciplined multi-office delivery.
- Its roster includes Adobe, Chobani, Intuit, Riot Games, and Magic: The Gathering.
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Benefits
Hybrid Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Health Insurance
Company News
LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heist, a Thinkingbox company known for pushing the boundaries of brand storytelling through animation, motion, and live-action, today announced a significant expansion with key creative and production hires from The Mill. The move includes the opening of a new Chicago office to support the continued growth of The Heist and its parent company, Thinkingbox.Leading the expansion is Patrick Coleman, who joins The Heist as Executive Creative Director. Patrick brings an award-winning portfolio and a team of long-time collaborators from The Mill, marking one of the most significant team transitions in the design and animation space in recent years. He will oversee creative operations across North America, with a primary base in Chicago."I'm beyond excited to join the Heist family," said Coleman. "It's an incredible opportunity to bring along so many talented friends to strengthen an already thriving studio and help elevate it even further. The creativity, warmth, and 'can-do' attitude truly resonate with me—I'm thrilled to see what we do together!"Also joining from The Mill are Blake Nickle, now Director of Production, Chicago, and Jason Esser, Creative Director at Thinkingbox
To bring more of an AI-first mindset to the role, Clark joins from Thinkingbox, where she worked for nearly a decade, serving as managing partner, focusing on operations and production.
Today, Thinkingbox, the experience agency shaping the future of brands through craft and curiosity, announces Corey Hankey as its first-ever chief operating officer (COO).
Creative experience agency Thinkingbox has tapped Alex Panousis to take on the role of chief growth officer within the collective.