Creative Specialist

Job Description

Responsibilities
Job Purpose

NBCU Ad Sales Center of Excellence is looking for a Creative Specialist who will help build tools and resources meant to educate the entire division as well as develop assets to market these resources internally. The Creative Specialist will be a visual storyteller who can take complex ideas and seamlessly translate them into compelling interactive presentations that both inform and engage. The Creative Specialist should have a background in multimedia production or storytelling with experience across a variety of storytelling tools.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop engaging presentations, custom graphics/videos, interactive content experiences, eblasts and other materials
• Work with our Training teams to evaluate new technologies and work to develop and implement content for such across divisions
• Create visually compelling promotional materials to engage all employees in content consumption and live training
• Lead design strategy and create custom logos, mockups, and templates for key program initiatives
• Manage the content acquisition and organization for internal cybrary of information
• Design visual toolkit and establish best practices for training and development use across the organization
• Maintain a database of files, images and other assets for all programs

Qualifications/Requirements
Qualifications:
• BA/BS with design or communications-related major
• 3+ years in professional advertising, agency, or marketing environment, preferably in a creative services role
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite with strong composition skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Expert in Microsoft PowerPoint with significant experience in graphing and charting in Microsoft Excel and Illustrator
• Experience with or ability to quickly learn other interactive storytelling tools such as Ceros, Storied, Wirewax, Articulate, etc.

Eligibility Requirements:
• Willingness to travel and work overtime, and on weekends with short notice
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older

Desired Characteristics
• Proven storytelling ability and experience
• Strong interpersonal skills with internal clients with varying experience levels
• Ability to project manage multiple assignments from outline/concept to design to finished product
• An understanding of quality, a creative thinker who sees value in high level production and execution of projects
• Forward thinking with the ability to foster innovation and creativity, while also maintaining a focus on day to day deliverables and workload
• Highly collaborative style and able to work easily in an environment of multiple stakeholders
• Convey thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in visual and written format
• Knowledge of media industry, the sales process and media in general

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