Studio: Critical Mass
Job Opening: Creative Director
Location: New York, New York State
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Drive the strategies that address customer needs and business goals across digital channels.
- Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen both the agency brand and market leadership position.
- Develop & deliver innovative proposals to capture both account growth and new business opportunities.
- Promote continuous improvement and accountability by driving Creative discipline and operational excellence and lending industry vertical expertise.
- Perform strategic account planning with senior management in vertical marketing groups.
- Conceive and create experience design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives.
- Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project stakeholders.
- Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams, including all creative disciplines, technology, planning, account and program managers, partners, clients, and more.
- Provide regular team leadership and constructive feedback on all accounts.
- Develop, monitor, and modify the business unit creative department staffing strategies and plans, including team composition, performance, skills, training, and mentoring.
- Develop, implement, and monitor quality standards across all creative artifacts and deliverables.
- Continuously improve Creative methods, problem-solving models, and best practices.
- Proactively manage the success of production scope, schedules, and budgets.
- Engage and inform practice leads from media, technology, marketing science, usability, and quality assurance to maximize results and ensure satisfaction.
- Support and lead Human Resource initiatives with a focus on performance management.
- Understand, embrace, and communicate corporate mission and values.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 4+ years of visual communication education.
- 4+ years of design, marketing, or communications interactive work and art direction experience.
- Strong design portfolio.
- Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
- Solid understanding and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality.
