Associate Creative Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Lead and shape creative strategy and execution, guiding multidisciplinary teams from planning to delivery while ensuring quality and continuous improvement across accounts.

  • Own strategic account planning and department staffing strategy.
  • Mentor teams and drive quality standards across deliverables.
  • Collaborate with senior management to align with business objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute creative solutions and innovations.
  • Build and guide the creative team around account and company needs and vision.
  • Drive creative discipline, operational, and industry vertical excellence and expertise to promote continuous improvement and a culture of excellence and accountability.
  • 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.
  • Provide regular team mentorship and constructive feedback on all accounts.
  • Develop, monitor, and modify creative department staffing strategies and plans, including team compensation and performance, skills, training, and mentorship.
  • Develop, implement, and monitor quality standards across all creative department artifacts and deliverables.

Requirements

  • 4+ years visual communication education.
  • 4+ years design, marketing, and communications interactive work experience.
  • 4+ years art direction experience.
  • Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
  • Solid knowledge and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality.
  • Experience developing Internet commerce, electronic marketing, and online brand management and integration, with demonstrated results. New York: $130,000-$150,000
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Critical Mass

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Critical Mass is a team of 1,900 inspired folks based in 13 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients. We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Founded in 1996
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
1.8K employees (728 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
44% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.7%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
6.8%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
347 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

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