Creative Director - Digital Marketing

Job Responsibilities:

- Be a respected creative leader and trusted teammate of your core creative team, agency teams and various client teams

- Provide creative leadership, solutions and problem solving for innovative social brand and social ecommerce creative; consistently delivering on-brand, on-brief, high-quality, campaign-integrated concepts and executions

- Lead creative presentations for concepts and executions to internal and external audiences

- Remain current on industry, cultural, and technology trends, and look for opportunities to proactively incorporate them into your team's creative concepts; don- t always wait for a formal assignment, sometimes you need to initiate it

- Lead, train and mentor ACD, designers and copywriters. Maintain consistent creative quality and produce award-winning work; and make it a priority to help them achieve annual and career-specific goals

- Partner with your account team, social media strategists, community managers and media planners; and proactively integrate with other brand strategists and creative leads.

- Get your hands dirty when necessary; don- t be afraid to jump in and do the work if needed

- Constantly think beyond advertising and social media platforms; anything that drives conversation and engagement is social

- In all social media-specific concepts, be sure to understand various execution formats and incorporate creative best practices for various social media networks including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Basic Qualifications : 

- 5-10 years of experience in a creative leadership role and managing a creative team (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations)

- Experience in leading social media creative efforts

Additional Qualifications : 

- Must be self-motivated, hard working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables; must not be afraid to confront the problems

- Ongoing drive to understand emerging techniques, digital design trends and philosophies in marketing, technology, interaction and social media

- Strong ability to provide clear creative direction and timely, helpful feedback to improve creative processes and to keep work on budget/schedule; be aware of your deadlines and how to get there

- Excellent oral and written presentation and communication abilities, internal and external

- Ability to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs

- Proven mentoring and team-building skills

- Experience leading creative for large brands is preferred (not mandatory)

- Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced)