Associate Director, Creative Services

USA (On-site)

$95K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive brand standards, creative direction, and production across internal teams, MaaS, and external partners; lead brand refreshes, briefs, and resource management to ensure consistent, high-quality brand expression across all channels.

  • Owns brand standards and design systems across channels
  • Leads brand refreshes and cross-functional rollout
  • Directs creative briefs and resource allocation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Standards and Creative Consistency - Define, create, and maintain brand guidelines, templates, and design systems — ensuring creative standards are documented, accessible, and consistently applied by internal teams, MaaS, and external partners without requiring senior escalation for every decision - Evaluate creative output from all production sources against brand standards and strategic intent — providing specific, actionable feedback that maintains quality and drives improvement across distributed channels - Lead brand refresh initiatives through execution and adoption — coordinating cross-functional implementation, tracking rollout against milestones, and embedding updated standards across the team and partner ecosystem Creative Brief Development and Direction - Develop creative briefs for campaigns, product launches, and projects — translating marketing strategy and business objectives into clear, actionable direction that guides internal and external creative resources - Oversee website creative direction for site updates and franchise sitelet standards — ensuring digital brand expression is consistent, user-centered, and aligned with brand guidelines - Direct video creative execution — ensuring video content meets brand standards, supports campaign goals, and is delivered to the brief Creative Production and Resource Management - Manage relationships with external creative resources and agencies — ensuring quality standards are maintained, creative direction is clearly communicated, and output supports business objectives - Allocate creative resources across competing priorities — balancing strategic initiatives, campaign demands, and operational needs to maintain efficiency and output quality - Oversee MaaS design output — ensuring work produced by international creative resources meets brand standards and reflects campaign intent Team Leadership and Capability Development - Develop the internal creative team —building capability and ensuring the team has the clarity and direction needed to execute against business requirements - Integrate team workflows across internal, MaaS, and external creative sources — ensuring production processes are efficient, handoffs are clean, and quality is consistent regardless of who executes the work

Requirements

  • Domain-specific Skills
  • Brand identity development and stewardship — You define, apply, and maintain visual identity systems, tone standards, and design guidelines across multiple teams and production channels, ensuring creative consistency without requiring redirection at every step.
  • Creative brief writing — You translate marketing strategy and business objectives into clear, actionable creative direction that enables designers, copywriters, and external partners to produce work that is strategically grounded and on-brand.
  • Hands-on design execution — You produce and refine creative work independently when needed, enabling you to model standards, provide precise feedback, and maintain quality when directing others.
  • Design system development — You build scalable brand guidelines, templates, and design systems that enable consistent execution across multiple teams and external partners at scale.
  • Creative quality assurance across distributed production — You evaluate creative output from internal teams, MaaS, and external groups against brand standards and strategic intent, providing feedback that improves quality and consistency.
  • Web creative direction — You apply user experience principles, visual hierarchy, and brand standards to direct website creative updates, ensuring digital brand expression supports user goals and business outcomes.
  • Video creative direction — You shape video creative strategy, provide direction to production teams and evaluate video output against brand standards and campaign objectives.
  • People management and team development — You build team capability to ensure the creative services function executes at the level the business requires.
  • Domain-specific Knowledge

Benefits

  • health insurance, retirement savings plan, paid time off, and other benefits.
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Sandler is a world leader in innovative sales, leadership and management training. For more than 50 years, Sandler has taught its distinctive, non-traditional selling system and highly effective sales training methodology, which has helped salespeople and sales managers take charge of the process.Our training is designed to create lasting improvement rather than the motivational “quick fix” typical of many seminar-based training programs. To help clients accomplish their goals, Sandler provides “reinforcement training,” a system that combines quality materials along with access to ongoing training workshops and individual coaching sessions. Through our local training centers, we provide continuing face-to-face support and reinforcement of the world’s most successful selling system.

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