Fractional Creative Director

Senior creative leadership. Embedded with your team.

Our fractional creative director engagement gives growing brands dedicated creative leadership — direction, oversight, and execution across every channel. Engagements start at $2,500/month with a 3-month minimum.

Response within 1 business day — no obligation
Signs you need this

Signs it's time for embedded creative leadership.

01

You're spending real money on marketing but nothing feels cohesive — every channel looks like a different brand.

02

You have designers, but no one with the authority to set creative direction and hold the standard.

03

You're briefing freelancers but spending more time managing them than running your business.

04

You just built a brand and need someone to steward it as you scale into new channels.

05

You need senior creative direction on an ongoing basis, without building out a full internal creative department.

"I've been the person in the room who can look at a campaign brief, a packaging dieline, and a Klaviyo flow in the same afternoon and tell you whether they're all saying the same thing. Most brands don't have that person. That's the gap I fill — not as a consultant who shows up once, but as someone who's actually in it with you."

Amanda Scott, Creative Director, AFS Creative Studio
Retainer tiers

Pick the level of involvement.

Essentials

10–12 hrs/month
From $2,500
  • Brand direction + oversight
  • 6–8 creative assets/month
  • 1–2 email templates
  • Monthly strategy call
Most popular

Growth

18–22 hrs/month
From $4,500
  • Everything in Essentials
  • 12–18 assets/month
  • Landing page design
  • Campaign concepting
  • Competitor review
  • Weekly async check-in

Partner

30–35 hrs/month
From $7,500
  • Full creative direction
  • All channels
  • Art direction oversight
  • Quarterly roadmap
  • Direct Slack access
  • 6-month minimum
Week to week

What the work actually looks like.

Direction

Set the creative bar, define what good looks like, brief specialists, and review every piece of creative going out.

Oversight

Review work in progress across designers, copywriters, photographers, and freelancers. Keep the brand cohesive across every surface.

Strategy

Translate brand and marketing strategy into creative direction. Plan campaigns, content pillars, and seasonal moments.

Execution

Hands-on design and art direction when needed — landing pages, packaging refinements, key campaign assets.

FAQ

Things people ask.

What partners say

Trusted by operators and founders.

One of the strongest creative operators I've come across. Amanda has an exceptional instinct for brand — not just in how things look, but in how they feel, translate, and scale across touchpoints. She brings clarity to ambiguity, raises the bar on visual identity, and consistently delivers work that is both on-brief and elevated.

Luna Yu
CEO, Genecis Bioindustries
Client · Folly Nutrition

Amanda produces incredible work. She's thoughtful, meticulous, and a real team player — high agency with a relentless work ethic that makes a brand shine across every channel. She can match the tempo of any business with no compromise on quality. I'd refer her to anyone I work with in a heartbeat.

Benoit Jack Beaulieu
Growth & Brand Operator
Collaborator across two brands

Consistently impressed by both the speed and quality of her work. Amanda is exceptionally versatile across every aspect of brand design — from photoshoots and packaging to web and brand guidelines — bringing strong creative instincts, strategic thinking, and polished execution to every part of the process.

Robert Celik
Commercializing Sustainable Biotech Products
Teammate · Folly Nutrition

Amanda is a strong partner when it comes to understanding the strategy and building a plan that drives toward the objective. She's nimble — she can brainstorm opportunities without limits, then focus on process, timelines, and executional detail when the time comes.

Vayshali Bhakta
Leader in Brand Marketing & Growth Strategy
Cross-functional partner · True Food Kitchen

Ready to stop guessing and start building?

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