Design Manager

Job Description

HBO Max is the future of entertainment and storytelling.

HBO Max™ is WarnerMedia's direct-to-consumer streaming platform, offering best in class quality entertainment. HBO Max features the greatest array of storytelling for all audiences from the iconic brands of HBO, Warner Bros., DC, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and more. The platform launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. HBO Max began its global rollout launching in markets across Latin America and the Caribbean this summer, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain. It has been announced that HBO Max will continue its European expansion for a global reach of 67 countries in 2022.

The Team

Digital Creative Services team is a mix of professionals with extensive expertise and experience in branding and creative design, and performance focused on the full-funnel customer experience. We're looking for talented team members who understand the power of brand and creative design, user experience as well as KPI's, call-to-action and promotion within digital advertising channels.

The Job

As Designer Manager of Digital Creative Services for HBO Max EMEA, you will assist in driving the operational success for the creative and visual execution of WarnerMedia's new streaming service, as well as the production and execution of growth marketing campaign assets to promote it.

Communication ability across all teams and departments using our international business language (English) is key. As Design Manager you will be focusing on Design Team time and availability management, having daily team task and responsibility overview, that will be communicated towards our Project Manager team. At the same time hands-on, you will be able to focus on developing visually creative design for cross channel campaign, motion storytelling and use of typography. This position works not only in a team management level, but also being collaborative with innovative Sr. Graphic Designers, Motion Graphics Artists/Animators, Copywriters and Creative Project Managers to conceptualize and execute visually creative concepts for HBO Max EMEA. You will work on a customer-focused team designing high performance pixel perfect digital communications, developed to support Growth Marketing.

The Daily
• Responsibility breakdown would align in 40% resource management and design team task overview and 60% creative and design hands-on execution.
• Ownership and daily overview of Design Team project load and task execution timeframes, that will be communicated towards project stakeholders and shared for partner department visibility and planning.
• Leading on design resource availability, including internal design team members, external agencies and freelance design support.
• Work on digital campaigns to craft high quality and compelling marketing materials for a variety of digital channels including CRM/e-mail, social media, display and programmatic, web and mobile landing pages, using various communication formats including static, rich media and videos/motion graphics.
• Assist in developing resources, guidelines and templates that allow the growth marketing team to create and communicate effective creative executions.
• Produce and execute compelling brand stories that will be deployed across multiple channels including display, social media and CRM to support marketing efforts with the objective to raise brand awareness, drive engagement and increase subscriptions.
• Present expert knowledge level working with graphical and motion graphic/video design software's from Adobe Creative Cloud.

The Essentials
• Advanced-level design experience at a content, performance or digital agency or in-house creative team with a strong focus on digital marketing.
• Highly skilled in visual digital creative design, motion graphics and typography.
• Experienced in leading and managing a Design team
• Visually stunning, cutting-edge portfolio not only showcasing a strong eye, but also strong storytelling and problem-solving abilities
• Expertise in impactful digital marketing creative executions, innovative formats and best practices.
• Experience with CRM/e-mail, display banners, social media and mobile design.
• Ability to follow up on Q&A and implementation stages of creative campaigns.
• Robust experience with Adobe Creative Suite (C4D is a plus) and content management systems.

When applying, please attach your up-to-date CV, PDF portfolio and/or link to your completed designs and creative projects or show-reel. Applications without PDF portfolio and/or link to your completed design projects will not be considered.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjek42-3-149-250-1-42 in your application.