Group Creative Director

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$121K/yr – $216K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative vision and brand storytelling, aligning multi channel campaigns with business goals while building and mentoring a high performance creative team.

  • Creative leadership: define and elevate the brand narrative across touchpoints
  • Team ownership: mentor writers and art directors and maintain high quality
  • Campaign execution: translate strategy into integrated campaigns across digital, social, print, and in store

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the overall creative direction and brand narrative
  • Translate brand strategy into compelling, integrated creative executions
  • Continuously evolve and elevate the brand’s visual and storytelling expression
  • Lead, inspire, and develop a team of writers and art directors while providing clear creative direction, constructive feedback, and career mentorship
  • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns across all media channels (digital, social, print, in-store, etc.)
  • Ensure consistency, quality, and craft across every brand touchpoint
  • Balance creativity with business objectives and performance goals
  • Uphold and enforce brand standards to ensure a consistent and cohesive identity
  • Maintain a high bar for creative excellence across all deliverables
  • Partner with internal stakeholders (marketing, merchandising, strategy, etc.) to align priorities

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in creative roles, with a strong foundation in art direction or design
  • 5+ years of leadership experience, including managing and developing teams
  • Proven experience in a senior creative leadership role (Creative Director, Art Director, Design Lead, or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing creative teams
  • Strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns and brand-building work
  • Deep understanding of brand strategy, storytelling, and visual design principles
  • Experience delivering creative across multiple channels and platforms
  • Excellent collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

  • Experience in retail, e-commerce, or consumer-facing brands
  • Background working in a large, matrixed organization or agency environment
  • Strong understanding of omnichannel marketing and customer journey mapping
  • Experience leveraging data and customer insights to inform creative decisions
  • Ability to balance creative vision with business performance metrics
  • Familiarity with emerging technologies, digital trends, and content innovation
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design, Advertising, related field (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

  • We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need, especially at key moments in your life.
  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
  • Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility.
  • Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves.
  • Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status, and years of continued or bridged service.
  • Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results.
  • For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
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At Best Buy, our purpose is to enrich lives through technology. We do that by leveraging our unique combination of tech expertise and human touch to meet our customers’ everyday needs, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. With over 1,000 stores and more than 90,000 employees in the United States and Canada, we solve key human needs in the areas of productivity, security, health, entertainment, connectivity, and more. We’re a community of courageous change-makers, ambitious collaborators, and inspiring friends. Whether it’s working as a Geek Squad Agent, an in-store advisor, or in our corporate office, we offer each other support and prepare for what might come next. We wake up every morning so we can do our part in shaping the future of a changing world. Together, we raise the bar for what’s possible and dream up new solutions to problems we’ve never encountered. We master innovative skills that we didn’t know were within grasp and turn everyday interactions into human connections built to last. If change motivates you, if technology inspires you — we’re here for you. Tomorrow works here™.

Founded in 1966
Richfield, Minnesota, US
73K employees (3,120 in marketing)
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58.3%
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