Creative Director

As a Creative Director on the Brand Team, you will be part of a growing creative department looking to create unique, ownable and strategic employer brand campaigns to help our clients stand out in a competitive talent market. You will have the opportunity to conceptualize creative solutions that can elevate our client’s communication and mentor junior staff to help deliver high quality creative work. We are looking to hire a person with strong background in Copywriting or Design.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and reinforce vision of values of the organization as it applies to creative development, output and goals.
• Responsible for mentorship and staff development.
• Oversees and is able to execute creative projects from concept through execution.
• Prepare creative proposals and able to deliver a project on budget and on time.
• Present ideas to evolve client’s employer brand identity to match global design trends.
• Understanding of digital and social media best practice across multiple channels.
• Collaborate with colleagues, vendors and business partners on materials design and execution.
• Interact with Copywriters and other Creative Directors to develop creative executions of assigned projects.
• Possess solid understanding of the market dynamics of assigned projects.
• Work closely with Brand team to schedule and monitor all projects.
• Independently manage time to meet deadlines.
• People manager with 2 immediate direct reports
• Responsible for creative thought leadership to the organization.
• Partners with account service regularly to understand and strategize on client’s objectives.
• Advise account service on creative recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex timelines and deliverables and articulate and adapt client creative needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Position Requirements

Education:

-Bachelor’s degree required or related experience.

Experience:

-Minimum of eight to ten years of professional graphic design experience.

Exposure:

-Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

-Exceptional expertise with Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, knowing After Effects is a plus).

-Mastered composition techniques (multiple elements and interactive pieces) in producing polished final pieces (i.e., attention to detail).

-Understanding and working knowledge of animations and development of animations for social and websites.

-Demonstrated complete understanding of: color theory and color relationships, typography, perspective and space relationships, page composition and grid structures.

-Print production process, knowledge of production techniques

-Web design and production of digital elements.

-Dynamic presentation skills.

This is a remote position for a fluent english speaker, it requires local traveling (20% of the time), the working hours are slightly adjusted to accommodate interaction with other senior leaders based in the US.