Creative Director

GPJ is hiring a Creative Director to join our growing team!

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to our Boston office location a minimum of 2 days per week.

Your Role

The role of the Creative Director is to lead the team in creative ideation and innovative thinking, mentor and grow creative team members and to foster an open, collaborative and inclusive environment that inspires and delivers great work. I am motivated and tenacious and constantly push the creative limits of myself, our team and our clients to emotionally connect with audiences at every event.

You work directly with clients and internal teams to guide the development of strategic and creative ideas and solutions. Your focus is on overall creative strategy, customer journey and how our creative will deliver results for various events: trade shows, launch events, lifestyle events, sports and entertainment, conferences and PR opportunities.

In this role you will:

• 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
• Develops personal client relationships that inspires them and manages expectations
• Collaborate with IP, graphics production, fabrication and creative tech to set agency standards and solve design and budgetary challenges while maintaining design and brand integrity. Always find a way to make it work.

Your Skills

• You are a team player always willing to pitch in where needed
• Someone who has broad-based exposure to art, design, music, media and content and is always searching and learning, driven by a constant desire to expand your knowledge
• Provide creative team leadership and direction to fulfill GPJ vision of creative leadership in Experience Marketing
• Oversee account-based creative teams, while partnering closely with strategy, production, and accounts
• Deliver unique and authentic experiences for our clients
• Partner with clients and senior team members across departments to heighten a brand’s significance and performance
• Adeptly contribute to and oversees the concept, design and development of pitch presentations and concepts for new business and existing clients
• Lead the development of new ideas and creative design solutions across multiple brands and initiatives
• Partner with IP, account, GFX Production and Fabrication to set agency standards for work and define best practices for use across all accounts
• Maintain project budgets and tracks allocated hours to ensure profitability of the creative team – in partnership with Creative Project Managers and Account Teams
• An advocate who represents the agency with integrity and confidence with clients and at industry events

Urgency – Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making…