Creative Director

Hawthorne, CA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $220K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead the creative strategy and execution for high impact experiential campaigns, guiding multidisciplinary teams from pitches through delivery and ensuring KPI-driven results.

  • Own strategy clarity, KPI definition, and ROI validation across programs.
  • Lead creative and production teams, manage pitches, and ensure on-time, high-quality deliverables.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Thoughtfully develop and present winning new business pitches that expand business relationships and agency opportunities.
  • Understand and work within project parameters, including client goals and requirements, internal goals, audience experience, technical constraints, budget and timeline to create industry-leading creative work.
  • Elevate the work. Lead Creative project teams by consistently clarifying team dynamics and next steps, monitoring progress, providing helpful critique, and infusing big ideas into the work, and thus consistently delivering inspired creative work that meets or exceeds client expectations.
  • Guide and contribute to strategic development of integrated experiential and virtual marketing campaigns throughout all phases of a project, overseeing planning, concept development, design and implementation. “Get your hands dirty” by producing and guiding fantastic work that solves our clients’ business challenges in unique and innovative ways.
  • Be the conduit between upfront strategy development and design exploration and execution:
  • STRATEGY: Clarify and anchor the client brief, objectives and KPIs; conduct primary and secondary research on the brand, audience, and other key project elements, distill and curate ideas based on strategic insights, contribute best-in-class storytelling and copywriting, validate recommendations with clear strategic rationale, pivot and adjust with strategic excellence, etc.
  • ART DIRECTION: Coordinate with diverse design talent to bring together the best possible aesthetics that are simultaneously on-brand and forward-looking.
  • Interface with internal teams, vendors, and clients for creative sell-in and review.
  • Remain current with industry trends and techniques, striving for best-in-class output across all facets of ideation, strategy, art direction and beyond.
  • CREATIVE PROCESS: Act as the catalyst that mixes and translates ideas, pushes concepts, and finds the best way to push our overall creative and design output.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Design or related field
  • Fluid work experience and technical capabilities with Mac OS and standard creative suite of programs including Adobe CC, and collaborative Keynote, Microsoft Office, and Google products
  • A solid portfolio of 8+ years that includes unique, successful and relevant experiential marketing projects (at least 3 years at an experiential agency)
  • Work samples that include strategy, copywriting and/or design personally owned and delivered as part of your role in the project/program
  • Demonstrated work, personal experience or interest in technology, lifestyle, sports and/or entertainment industries is a plus
  • Ability to work a hybrid schedule (up to 2 days in office) and travel up to 50% of the time

Benefits

  • medical/dental/vision insurance, employer paid basic life and personal accident insurance
  • Annual Profit Sharing/Bonus Plan based on the company’s performance and your individual performance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • PTO
  • STD/LTD insurance benefits
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On Board Experiential

On Board Experiential (OBE) is a global award-winning, experience-led agency that believes an experience is any way a brand engages people. From proprietary events and pop-up retail to interactive technology and cut-through content (+ everything in between) — we help the world's leading brands make an impact. More than "just another agency," we are a team that solves the unsolvable, across the globe — and we're always ready to play. Visit our website to learn more.

Founded in 1995
Los Angeles, California, USA
210 employees (70 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.4%
Direct
48.7%
Referral
6.5%
Social
15.9%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~211

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (18% of company)
Median Tenure
7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3