Creative Director

Elkhart, IN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own global creative production for Conn Selmer, turning marketing strategy into consistent brand storytelling across social, web, product launches, and campaigns while leading teams, budgets, and timelines.

  • Global Social & Brand Execution: standardize formats, templates, cadence, and best practices across paid and organic channels.
  • Asset Production & Workflows: manage briefs, shoots, post-production, asset libraries, and multi-brand delivery on schedule and within budget.
  • Cross-Channel storytelling: partner with web/digital, product teams, and events to ensure cohesive narratives and sales impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Translate marketing strategy into clear creative direction, production plans, and finished deliverables.
  • Lead creative execution across Conn Selmer’s global brand portfolio, ensuring content supports brand affinity, awareness, engagement, and sales objectives.
  • Establish creative standards, templates, formatting guidelines, workflows, and approval processes that ensure brand consistency, accuracy, and quality across channels.
  • Lead execution of global social media content across paid and organic channels, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, marketing priorities, and business objectives.
  • Standardize social media formats, templates, visual identity, cadence, and platform-specific best practices.
  • Oversee content development for product launches, events, artists, educators, partnerships, campaigns, and brand initiatives.
  • Guide development of short- and long-form video content for social, web, email, events, and sales enablement.
  • Partner with web and digital team to ensure cohesive storytelling and presentation across owned channels.
  • Oversee product photography and video content supporting product launches, education and training initiatives, corporate communications, brand storytelling, and campaign assets.
  • Develop and guide creative briefs, scripts, shot lists, shoot direction, production logistics, and final delivery.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in creative production, digital marketing, or related creative roles.
  • Experience leading creative teams and production workflows in a fast-moving marketing environment.
  • Experience overseeing video production, product photography, social media, digital content, and campaign asset development.
  • Proven ability to translate marketing strategy into clear creative direction and high-quality deliverables.
  • Strong creative judgment for brand consistency, visual identity, storytelling, and content formatting.
  • Excellent communication and writing skills, including creative briefs, scripts, and campaign messaging.
  • Demonstrated project management, including timelines, priorities, budgets, stakeholders, and production.
  • Ability to build and improve creative workflows, templates, standards, asset libraries, and production processes in a resource-conscious environment.
  • Experience in music, consumer goods, dealer/distributor environments, or global brand portfolios preferred.
  • Flexibility to support production schedules and events, including occasional evening or weekend work, with travel up to 15%.
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Conn Selmer, Inc

Conn Selmer is the largest U.S. band instrument manufacturer and a global leader in instrument manufacturing and distribution. Our iconic brands represent 750+ years of combined musical heritage, craftsmanship, and innovation. From classrooms to concert halls, our instruments are engineered for artistry, blending time-honored tradition with modern manufacturing to deliver world-class instruments for musicians at every level. Our legendary brands: Armstrong, Bach, Conn, King, Holton, Leblanc, Ludwig, Musser, and Selmer. Conn Selmer is also the North American distributor of Henri Selmer Paris woodwinds and Yanagisawa saxophones.

Founded in 1993
Elkhart, Indiana, USA
486 employees (91 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
35.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.7%
Direct
38.2%
Referral
8.1%
Social
3.3%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~486

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (2% of company)