Responsibilities

• Oversee the creative function.
• Bring a strong and informed decision on what effective creative looks like at each stage of the funnel and translate high-level ideas and inspiration into clear, bold, executable creative strategies.
• Steward Brand Identity and creative guidelines across multiple markets.
• Challenge briefs and proactively drive the creative work forward to improve quality, bringing diverse stakeholders on the journey with you.
• Act as a key partner to the CEO, who will lead on brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas that can become impactful executions. You will play a pivotal role in elevating the creative ideation and campaign development to the next level.
• Lead the team by example by being on the tools creating the work yourself, as well as reviewing the work of others.
• Partner with internal teams and agency resources to drive high-quality creative work that is aligned with strategic goals and timelines.
• Oversee and manage creative team projects supporting marketing, partnership, experiential, and digital activations, driving impactful growth.
• Lead the team to deliver creative excellence from ideation to production, ensuring adherence to requested deliverables, timelines and budgets.
• Manage, motivate and mentor team members to perform highly and grow professionally.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Creative experience: Ideally the candidate will be from a design or copy background with exceptional craft skills, but also be able to create brilliant conceptual ideas.
• Strong leadership skills with a high level of emotional intelligence to inspire and manage creative teams in dynamic environments.
• You have great communication skills, both verbal and written, and are confident presenting and explaining your creative decisions to stakeholders.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation—and comfortable leading teams through it
• Experience introducing new tools, processes, workflows or technologies to improve creative output
• You have an expert command of creative tools: Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, and embracing the future; you're comfortable exploring emerging tools, and leveraging AI to help drive efficiencies.
• Solid knowledge of motion principles and best practices.
• Solid understanding of the digital, video, social, and content space
• History of successful delivery of impactful creative on time and within budget