Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of 10–15 designers and creatives while strategically growing the department’s capabilities, structure, and talent to meet evolving client and business needs.
• Build the future of GSE Live’s creative organization by identifying opportunities to expand capabilities, strengthen processes, recruit top talent, and elevate the agency’s creative offering.
• Set and uphold the creative vision and quality standard across all department output—brand campaigns, presentation design, digital and print collateral, experiential and environmental assets, and content.
• Play a major role in new business pitches, including shaping creative strategy, designing and directing response decks, and presenting the agency’s creative vision to prospective clients.
• Strategize and lead content and commercial production, including concept development, storyboarding, script writing, and overseeing production through final delivery.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop creative talent; provide ongoing coaching, performance feedback, and career development to build bench strength across the team.
• Partner with account, project, strategy, and marketing leaders to ensure creative consistency, exceed client expectations, and deliver against brand objectives and strategy.
• Provide creative direction across multiple concurrent projects, balancing short- and long-term deadlines and allocating team resources effectively.
• Champion adherence to client brand standards and tone while continually pushing a fresh, best-in-class creative approach.
• Present creative concepts and rationale persuasively to internal stakeholders and clients, translating business goals into compelling visual and content solutions.