Group Creative Director

Group Creative Director

Requirements

• 10+ Years of relevant experience in concept development, creative/art direction, or copywriting within a creative, advertising, or digital agency environment
• Advanced in the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience working in a fast paced social media focused marketing agency
• Organized and highly effective at managing competing priorities and timelines and presenting ideas to an executive team
• Strong presentation skills, articulating smart and sometimes complex solutions in a straightforward and lucid manner
• Experience as a digital maven and social media powerhouse capable of leading teams to produce relevant and award-worthy work on all digital and social platforms
• Understand how Advertising, PR, and Social Media play together in the brand’s communication
• Understand the business-side of agencies and manage a team to profitable results for the agency
• Interested candidates must provide their portfolio, website, or creative samples for consideration
• Experience working on pitches and proposals
• Experience in the entertainment industry

Responsibilities

• Lead creative strategy and design for high priority clients and projects
• Understand clients’ business challenges and objectives to develop strategic creative solutions
• Guide and contribute to the strategic development of integrated experiential and social, entertainment marketing campaigns
• Develop and deliver thought leadership and creative solutions that strengthen clients’ market distinction and leadership position
• Oversee the end to end creative process for RFPs and pitches (including deck design, mocks, etc.)
• Lead, inspire, and direct a creative team composed of associate creative directors, art directors, graphic designers, motion designers, and editors
• Oversee Creative Directors and Associate Creative Directors and provide creative guidance and recommendations
• Lead and drive new client meetings, calls, pitches and brainstorming sessions, providing real-time constructive feedback
• Manage the creation and delivery of presentation decks and sales materials that drive growth and awareness of DMM’s creative capabilities both externally and internally
• Guide and provide thought leadership in the assessment of existing properties for content value, relevance, aesthetics, branding and overall experience
• Promote continual creative improvement and actively contribute to a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability
• Cultivate creative branding and social media strategies
• Create, follow, and implement style guides across assigned clients and projects
• Act as client-facing resource and provide solutions for any design-related issues
• Provide daily quality control over assigned projects
• Drive best practices across all creative including, conceptual thinking, art direction, design, and production
• Anticipate problems that may impede a project from completing on time and implement solutions from a creative perspective, always with a problem-solving mindset
• Collaborate on a daily basis with department leads to align on monthly/quarterly priorities/deliverables to ensure maximum client ROI
• Inspire, grow, and mentor the creatives you oversee to provide clear career paths and a long-standing team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the entertainment industry