Executive level creative leadership without the full-time price tag.

One package for $60k/year rules your entire creative strategy:

For reference, the 2025 going full-time CCO rate in Seattle, with my background, is $200k—-$300k/yr + benefits. I’ve taken the low end of that to build a reasonable package that meets all of our goals. Here’s how my math works:

  • You get me for 10 hours per week (2 hrs per day avg)

  • I charge 25% FTE referencing $220k/yr

  • So, I come to you at $55k/yr ($4,583.33k/mo) + 9.3% WA sales tax = $5,009.58/mo or $60,114.96k/year

 

What is a (fractional) Chief Content Officer—CCO? Here’s what the internet says:

“Fractional Chief Creative / Brand Officer”

Ideal for: brands who need senior‐level guidance but not full-time. I act as a part-time senior exec: creative/brand leadership, mentoring team, guiding strategy.


Deliverables / Role:

  • I serve part-time as your senior creative/brand leader.

  • Participate in leadership team meetings, set brand/creative vision, oversee major campaigns/events, mentor internal team.

  • Quarterly brand health review: key metrics, recommended pivots.


Pricing: Fractional leadership roles command high rates due to seniority.

What kind of brands will this work best for?

Mid-sized teams with budget, and with in-house (or agency) creative teams but no true creative leadership. Creative sheep without a Shepherd.

The Job Description You’re Hiring

This job description will read more like a step-by-step checklist. I’ll plug into your weekly routine. An in-person visit will be the best way to kick off our engagement:

  • STEP 1 Define & Align: brand story, content, and culture so your message resonates internally and externally. I come in to facilitate getting the story right, the audience right, the branding, content strategy, team specialists, trends, reviewing org structure practices etc. This is a planning phase that requires calendar sensitivity and invites spirited discussion among stakeholders. These are meetings where notes are acted upon; new things are clearly charted and deployed strategically. This step may even be mostly defined, but I will still need to stir things up.

  • STEP 2 Lead creative strategy & project execution, helping translate vision into action from campaigns to events & experiences. Strategy conversations with execs, directors and project managers (or external agencies). Freeing up the execs from the creative lane, so there will need to be a high degree of trust in me once we get going. I’ll need sign-off “clearance” for the brand to move at speed. Remember, I’m not doing the projects or project management (you have those people), but I can get in as far as project art direction.

  • STEP 3 Mentoring team leaders and specialists, (and learn from them) as we go. My background should be helpful to young creatives.