Creative Lead

Who Are We? RZR is an AI-native advertising platform built for the next era of performance marketing. We operate at the intersection of machine learning, programmatic media, and full-funnel mobile growth, powering campaigns for some of the world's most ambitious advertisers. Our platform is purpose-built to deliver outcomes at scale, not just impressions. We are a team of builders, operators, and technologists who believe the advertising industry is overdue for a fundamental rethink. We move fast, operate with a high degree of ownership, and hold ourselves to an exceptionally high standard of craft. RZR is scaling aggressively with an active M&A pipeline and a platform vision that puts us on a path to becoming an industry leader. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at an inflection point and help shape what it becomes. Role Overview The Creative Lead for Production owns quality and pipeline health for a pod of designers delivering creative across Video, Banner, Native, Interstitial, and Playable formats. You are the QA gate — every asset passes through your sign-off before it ships. You sit at the seam between Creative Strategy and Production: translating briefs into executable direction, maintaining the team's output velocity, and protecting quality even at peak volume (20–30 tickets per day). This is not a pure management role. You are expected to stay hands-on — personally concepting, storyboarding, and executing — while leading, coaching, and developing your direct reports. The right person sets the creative bar rather than enforcing someone else's, and finds the balance between forward output and quality control without dropping either. Key Responsibilities Own production quality standards across all formats and enforce the QA matrix — every asset passes your sign-off before shipping Direct creative execution across channels and set the bar for what "done" looks like Manage the QA pipeline end to end: review and approve RZR Studio submissions, flag revisions, track resolution at 20–30 tickets per day at peak, with first-review turnaround under 2 hours Triage and allocate bandwidth across your pod, flag bottlenecks before they become backlogs, and deliver a daily pulse on pipeline health Coordinate with the Creative Strategy Lead on brief-to-execution alignment, escalating collated feedback when strategic creative revisions run heavy on first pass Drive production workflow and tooling improvements, owning the team's iteration velocity and output volume targets Maintain and update the Playbook and RZR Studio Templates on every new account launch, with same-day turnaround Run 1:1s and development check-ins with all direct reports; report pod output metrics to the Director of Creative Services Required Skills and Experience Must-Have 7+ years in creative production, motion or graphic design, or multimedia design within digital, gaming, or adtech Hands-on fluency across the Adobe Suite —…