Senior Manager – Creative – Associate Creative Director – Art – Style

Senior Manager – Creative – Associate Creative Director – Art – Style

Requirements

• Proven experience as an ACD, senior art director, or similar role in the fashion retail industry
• Strong portfolio showcasing varied 360-degree creative projects in the market at all levels
• Exceptional swipe and world building skills
• Exceptional collaboration and time management skills
• Excellent understanding of fashion trends and consumer behavior
• Proficiency in creative software and tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides, Figma, Microsoft Office 365, Slack
• Minimum 8 years of experience in a creative role. A mix of agency and in-house experience is strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Art Direction, or related field

Responsibilities

• In response to creative briefs, develop strategic ideas that enhance our KPIs around brand awareness and brand perception.
• Contribute to a team that will execute full funnel advertising campaigns for all channels, e.g. broadcast, OOH, OLV, paid media, and owned channels.
• Contribute to the ideation of strategic concepts and manage swiping and visual world building.
• Present to key stakeholders and executives, work with the pod to create all pre-production decks (music, set, casting, glam, shot lists).
• Execute on set, direct post-production processes overseeing the edit, sound, and color direction of all post-shoot assets, and be accountable for final delivery of asset suites.
• Employ critical thinking to ensure we’re always on task.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, consumer preferences, and competitive landscapes to inform creative decisions.
• March towards the shared goal of greater brand attribution and recall; align verbal and visuals accordingly and in concert with enterprise initiatives.
• Ensure all creative materials are considered at various levels of the funnel.
• Contribute to and grow your pod with optimism and enthusiasm, pursuing an award-winning in-house model.
• Foster positive, constructive relationships with junior members within your team.
• Pursue ways that we can work better, faster.
• Manage team and projects that are on-brief, strategic, creative, and polished for presentations, mitigating feedback and pivots that will ultimately keep workstreams on track.
• Partner with Creative Account Management and Operations (CAMO) and Production to manage timelines and executions to concept breakthrough creative on schedule and on budget.
• Build strong relationships with WCS peer teams, such as Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), Retail Marketing, Performance Marketing, Fashion Office, and Site to sustain and grow business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Digital Content Management
• Editorial
• Retail Management
• Supervising Associates
• WE-Working for or with Creative Agencies