Creative Director

Responsibilities

• Directs, plans and implements brand strategies, overall concepts and creative work for all Museum branding and visual communications, including marketing collateral, advertising, signage, web, digital, video, social media and retail.
• Leads brand assessment, refresh, and implementation internally and externally.
• Directs and evaluates the work of design staff and contractors to effectively translate the Museum's brand into visual communication, including marketing collateral, advertising, signage, web, digital, social media, etc.
• Directs the work of a highly efficient and creative environment, optimizes and tracks projects for the studio including assigning projects to staff, evaluating their work, ensuring smooth workflow, quality of work and refining production systems to ensure projects are delivered on time. Empowers creative staff, facilitating information flow between Creative team members and other departments.
• Responsible for overall design brand management, ensuring all marketing materials are within NHMLAC design style guides.
• Manages design projects from concept through completion.
• Attends meetings as the creative representative and leads all design project kick offs.
• Develop and implement brand design strategies in branded communications.

Requirements

• BA or BFA in Design or other relevant applied art concentration
• Experience working in-house for an institution overseeing their branding efforts
• 8-10 years experience in the design field including experience art directing photo shoots
• 3+ years experience managing others and/or leading teams
• Excellent design skills with an eye for typography, color, photography and illustration; motion graphics experience a plus
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to lead, problem solve and manage feedback
• Expert skill in Adobe Creative Suite; Figma a plus
• Strong record of collaboration ensuring completion of projects. Good track record of people development.

Preferred

• motion graphics experience a plus

Benefits

• excellent benefits