Creative Director P

Job Description

Paramound+ lives in the world of cultural icons like Dexter, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Godfather. With a growing library of original and exclusive series, hit shows, iconic blockbuster movies, live sport and breaking news, Paramount+ is a mountain of entertainment.

We're part of the Paramount global family of entertainment & media businesses that delivers award-winning, premium content to audiences across multiple digital, streaming and traditional platforms to billions worldwide in more than 180 countries. Our growing stable of well-known and well-loved brands include Paramount+, Paramount Pictures, SHOWTIME, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, CBS and Smithsonian.

Due to an international transfer, we are now looking for an experienced Creative Director to join our fast-paced Australian marketing team to help us continue to grow and establish the Paramount+ brand in the competitive streaming space locally.

What you'll do as a Creative Director for Paramount+:

Reporting to the VP Marketing & Growth, this role requires someone who has a passion for great content, embraces a creative challenge and wants to build world class campaigns to grow our Australian business.

You are both a creator and thinker who blends insights & data with storyteling and entertainment to push the boundaries of marketing. Overseeing a creative team, you know how to market leading consumer and/or entertainment brands, crafting transformative cross-channel campaigns around the customer that cut through.

Functions will also include:
• Lead and supervise the Creative team for streaming for Australia
• Generate and lead creative vision for Paramount+ locally in line with international guidelines
• Lead, develop and supervise creative materials and campaigns for Paramount+ across our Australian original titles, sport tactics, brand campaigns and localizing international title initiatives
• Work closely with functional marketing leads to support and complement their strategies with creative solutions
• Build a strong network of vendors to support the large volume of assets with an agile response to high demands - build relationships with Ad Agencies around the region to partner on major campaigns & launches
• Consistently look for new techniques and tools to improve mass production of assets for multiple platforms and target groups
• Collaborate with other internal creative teams within Paramount to find best practices

What are we looking for in a Creative Director? What's most important?
• At least 10 years of experience in a similar role leading creative teams
• Proven abilities to lead, inspire and motivate those you work with, setting standards with your work ethic, attitude and creativity
• A proven all-rounder with advanced skills in copywriting and art direction - extremely knowledgeable in all areas of design, brand identity, promotion and communication in all platforms (linear, digital, social, out-of-home)
• Advanced ability to concept and direct high quality A/V content from long form trailers to 6'' digital video assets
• Excellent interpersonal skills, entrepreneurial mindset and resilient spirit with experience navigating cross-functional organizations
• Strong presentation skills, a storyteller comfortable pitching to executives

Why Paramount?

We could just list the numerous benefits our employees avail of every day. However, for now we'll just leave you with how our employees feel about us:
• 92% of our employees stated they would highly recommend Paramount to a friend (Glassdoor)
• We hold a 3.9 STAR RATING, by far the highest rating in the media sector (Seek Company Profiles)

Paramount embraces differences and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world's oldest living cultures.

We prioritise the health, safety and welfare of our people. As a result, we currently require all our employees who enter a Paramount premises to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in alignment with our Vaccination Position. Please reach out with any questions or to discuss your personal circumstances.

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4m3o7-3-136-154-103-42 in your application.