Responsibilities

• Supervise account-based creative teams day-to-day to ensure their success
• Manage 1-4 direct reports and invest in their career path, growth and development
• Collaborate in NBD efforts, developing mind-blowing ideas and pitching to success
• Contribute to creative and agency culture, inspiring teams to do their best work
• Collaborate with creative leadership to create high-quality, strategic presentations that exceed client expectations through copywriting, sketches, renders, mock-ups, and presentations
• Excel at managing team workload and meeting tight deadlines
• Lead planning and strategy sessions resulting in clear creative briefs
• Lead project creative teams, overseeing work and ensuring execution is consistent and of the highest quality output
• Work closely with Creative leadership to establish agency best practices and standard ensuring our leadership within the industry
• Push the development of multiple concepts and solutions to meet client objectives, while also understanding impact to the larger business and GPJ

Requirements

• Minimum of four year degree in Design, Advertising, Theater or related creative discipline
• Minimum 10 years industry experience or related creative process experience combining strategy, content, message with creative deliverables.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills required.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire the creative team, while keeping the creative process in alignment with GPJ business goals and objectives
• Travel 25%
• Ability to travel 25%
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed

Preferred

• Event and Experience Design expertise desirable.

Benefits

• We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest.
• employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period)
• low employee contribution healthcare option