Creative Director

Minneapolis, MN (On-site)

$120K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative vision and client strategy for integrated outdoor, retail, and CPG campaigns while driving the SixSpeed process, team development, and senior-level client partnerships.

  • Lead strategic creative direction and manage SixSpeed process to keep work on budget and schedule.
  • Forge deep client relationships with market insight to guide campaigns and win buy-in.
  • Coordinate with the Account group to align briefs, feedback, and goals for delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creative vision for integrated campaigns and ideas for a variety of outdoor, retail, and CPG brands in a team-centric environment
  • Develop creative strategies for marketing, advertising, and branding campaigns
  • Direct and shape work that is strategically sound and conceptually bold to connect people and brands in ways that are impossible to imitate
  • Foster and maintain senior-level relationships with clients acting as a strategic partner by demonstrating a deep understanding of their market, business sector and their specific challenges and opportunities
  • Understand and communicate clients goals, objectives and business landscape to the creative team (in a way that inspires and evokes)
  • Inspire and motivate teams to create their best work; promote the environment for creativity to flourish
  • Implement and push the SixSpeed creative process to evolve the agency and spur creative teams to do their best work
  • Provide clear, timely, and helpful feedback to improve creative output and processes keeping work on budget and schedule
  • Partner with Account group to provide guidance, insights, and perspectives in support of client initiatives
  • Ensure that employees are up-to-date and the agency maintains relevancy, on branding, marketing, and advertising trends and technological advances

Requirements

  • 7-15 years of experience in the advertising or marketing industryYou’re Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and have cursory knowledge of programs like After Effects
  • You have a natural, strong sense of typography, color theory, composition
  • Experienced in large-scale campaign work and video production for global brands
  • Naturally inclined to build and maintain relationships with account team, creative team, and key clients
  • Positive, genuine, good-natured and collaborative in service of producing the best work possible
  • Accountable owner of projects from start to finish with task management skills to help the larger team
  • Embrace constraints and are fueled by the challenge
  • Open-minded, positive, action oriented and above all, a strong team player
  • Strong artistic sense that is able to generate ideas and concepts visually and/or linguistically
  • Ability and willingness to try new ideas, experiment with new tools, stay on top of current trends, industry knowledge, and develop new skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator that’s engaging, persuasive, and inspiring to clients, team members and peers
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SixSpeed

To be what others can't, you have to do what they won't. We are an independent creative marketing & media agency making the world's most adventurous brands impossible to imitate.

Founded in 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
52 employees (27 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~52

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (23% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3