Responsibilities

• CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: 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.
• CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE: Stay up to date on current events, culturally relevant movements and happenings, DE&I best practices and terminology, and a vast range of subject matter that enhances the work, heightens your ability to collaborate with diverse talent, and creates an inclusive environment for expressing authentic and diverse perspectives.
• AUDIENCE-CENTRICITY: Foster deep understanding and empathy for the given brand's intended audience that enhances the work.

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.
• ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Effective communicator and storyteller with the ability to find the best approach to verbally and visually communicate an idea AND articulately present it to other team members, clients and agency partners.
• Excellent listener, able to get to the heart of what the client and/or team is telling you. Seeks to understand and integrate the most poignant ideas and insights into project work and agency processes.
• Experience collaborating with teams of strategists, designers, artists, technologists, producers, account managers and content developers.
• Strategic and visually compelling point-of-view demonstrated in all creative output.
• Adept at multi-tasking, with an ability to coordinate multiple projects and resources while maintaining excellence.

Preferred

• Natural curiosity—the drive to always be learning and growing, professionally and personally.
• High energy and flexibility in working non-traditional hours as needed (some nights and weekends as deadlines dictate).
• Willingness 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