Director of Creative Services (University Marketing & Communications)

Houston, TX (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 10 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the UH brand's creative direction, overseeing end-to-end development and a cross-functional team to deliver on major campaigns while ensuring brand standards, strategy alignment, and timely delivery.

  • Lead design, copy, and media efforts across marketing initiatives
  • Present strategy and maintain brand integrity to leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the overall visual representation of the company's brand and elevating existing creative initiatives. Directs a team of writers, editors, graphic designers and photographers in support of University Marketing and Communications's (UMC) projects.
  • - Develops and delivers creative visual solutions that drive strategy to support merchandising, marketing and branding goals.
  • - Manages a team of designers to deliver projects on time, on budget and brand and audience appropriate.
  • - Pushes creativity, keeps abreast of national, global and industry trends, explores new ways to craft unique solutions that reflect and evolve the brand.
  • - Establishes, implements, and monitors UH graphic standards in partnership with Executive Director of Brand Management.
  • - Performs graphic design work as needed.
  • - Manages traditional and electronic publication projects.
  • - Performs other duties as required.
  • - Develop long term strategic creative vision for UH brand and execution strategy across all major campaigns and initiatives as well as tactical or standalone assets.
  • - Manage the end-to-end creative development process, from briefing, constructive design reviews to asset delivery; ensuring deadlines, budget and quality standards are met.

Requirements

  • MQ: Education: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4 year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed. Experience: Requires a minimum of five (5) years of directly job-related experience.
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University of Houston

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Founded in 1927, the University of Houston is the leading public research university in the vibrant international city of Houston. Each year, we educate more than 47,000 students in more than 250 undergraduate and graduate academic programs, on campus and online. UH awards over 10,000 degrees annually, with more than 332,000 alumni.

Founded in 1927
Houston, Texas, USA
12K employees (517 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
76% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$116.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
50.2%
Referral
7.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
354 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
5.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$9.3M
Last Raise
$2M
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2024
    Grant
  • Oct 2023
    Grant • $2M
  • Sep 2018
    Grant • $4M

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