Creative Director

Job Description

Overview:

We are looking for a Creative Director that can encourage and direct creative resources, optimally pitch and align leadership with new ideas, and work across 360 consumer marketing including print, on-air and digital. The ideal candidate will have the ability to unify strategy and execution across branding and streaming. Not only does this candidate have creative vision, they can provide feedback and mentorship while looking for opportunities to optimize processes and delivery.

Responsibilities:
• Has a strong POV and creative vision along with a clear, concise ability to provide direction to internal and external partners.
• Lead large content marketing projects that present multidisciplinary challenges and span multiple departments.
• Tackle for business, customer, and partner requirements while building creative that is stunning and effective.
• Identify ways to enable the team to scale and optimize quality for recurring projects – through mechanisms like guidelines, tools, templates and processes.
• Stay current on emerging design trends, fashion and apparel innovations, and broader technologies – and proactively discover opportunities to incorporate the best current thinking into designs, strategies, and projects.
• Articulate and pitch creative concepts to peers and senior management.
• Acquire and allocate internal/external resources to achieve strategic and operating goals.
• Elevate the creative output of any internal partner or agency/production company vendor to ensure that all marketing assets meet a high level of creativity, innovation and brand association on time and within budget.
• Forecast resourcing needs to drive a schedule for projects while prioritizing and using resources optimally.
• Proactively work to tackle problems and communicate to senior management, and actively seek clarification when there is ambiguity
• Mentor and foster the careers of creative, editorial, and production teams.
• Communicate with key partners internally and externally in a spirit of collaboration and building positive relationships with partners.
• Work with senior leadership to build policies and procedures that impact the broader organization.

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years' experience in a creative or marketing role preferably in entertainment
• 5+ years' experience leading diverse creative teams through fast-paced, conceptual and strategic design and production work
• Passion for design thinking and the strategic, business impact of design!
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Self-starter with the passion, ability, and energy to work in a fast-paced start-up environment!
• Experience with product and streaming

Additional Qualifications:
• Strong portfolio with a track record of leading and implementing world class entertainment campaigns
• Understanding and respect for diversity of teams, thoughts and work
• A risk taker who is willing to push the boundaries and help elevate the EQ and IQ of the 360 Design team

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1pj1m-18-188-40-207-42 in your application.