Creative Director/Senior Graphic Designer for Lifestyle Client

Asheville, NC (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative direction and delivery of integrated campaigns, turning client branding into compelling concepts while leading a team and ensuring on-brand execution, schedule, and client alignment.

  • Creative direction: translate brand strategy into multi-channel concepts (TV, digital, print, social) and steer ideas through to final production.
  • Team and client leadership: mentor creatives, pitch concepts to clients, and maintain strong collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Quality and governance: act as final creative filter, ensuring consistency, budget adherence, and campaign effectiveness.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Guide the artistic and conceptual direction of a marketing campaign.
  • Oversee the entire creative process—from brainstorming initial ideas to directing copywriters and art directors—ensuring all deliverables align with the client’s brand strategy, budget, and deadlines.
  • Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with clients to ensure brand and creative direction for all materials in support of client promotions and marketing goals.
  • Possess a strong grasp of branding strategy and development.
  • Translate clients’ brand into compelling, original, and persuasive creative concepts across various media (TV, digital, print, and social).
  • Manage and mentor a team of creatives, including copywriters, art directors, designers, and account executives by providing feedback, nurturing talent, and ensuring collaboration and team cohesion.
  • Pitch creative concepts to clients, articulating why the messaging will drive success and securing project buy-in.
  • Act as the final filter for the agency's output by ensuring consistency and making sure the work is both effective and on brand.
  • Provide and oversee creative concept/direction for integrated print, digital, and broadcast campaigns, and/or directly design and produce materials.
  • Assist in selecting agency partners to assist with execution of creative vision of each project, including photographers, videographers, web developers, illustrators, motion graphics artists, and printers, etc.
  • Participate in day-to-day account management directly with clients including meetings, creative planning, timelines, production schedules, on-site photo and video shoots.
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Market Connections is the leading government market research firm for insights that help companies and government agencies make informed, intelligent decisions that drive significant and measurable business improvements. With over 20 years of experience providing Research You Can Act On, we continue to build our expertise in the government market, including Federal, State, and Local; Information Technology and Telecommunications; Healthcare; and Associations and Nonprofits.

Founded in 1996
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17.2%
Direct
12.7%
Referral
35.7%
Social
9.9%
Paid
24.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (20% of company)