Creative Director, Art Director

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Strategic creative thinker and leader with an emphasis on visual expression. Responsible for the institutional knowledge of their client’s visual brand standards and language and the consistency and application of it. Completely owns one or more work-streams. Is a trusted partner to clients, BL and strategists. Works alongside strategy and BLs to shape briefs/strategic approach. Owns, develops and directs overarching ideas.

Has oversight over creative teams from ACD on down. Guides, shapes and develops ideation from subordinates. Manages inter-team issues, guides subordinates toward advancement, collaborates on team capabilities and structures, identifies problem areas and opportunities and works with teams across the agency to create solutions.

• Responsible for concepting with the integrated team to deliver the best, most innovative creative ideas while maintaining a cohesive brand voice/identity.
• Supporting of concepts and layouts with clear rationale.
• Collaborate with team and offer innovative ideas for creative briefs and strategy.
• Track multiple parallel deadlines with exceptional attention to detail.
• Successful execution of activations within established budgets and timeframe and on strategy.
• Partners successfully with other creatives and across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Presents work internally.
• Directly manages and mentors multiple teams.
• Actively participates/contributes to brainstorms.
• Stay abreast of industry and technology trends.
• Articulates vision, idea, objectives to vendor.
• Attends on-site visits and shoots as needed to ensure the vision comes to life.
• Becomes client facing with supervision from CD and above.
• Supporting Momentum’s values
• All other duties as assigned

• College degree with focus in Art Direction, preferred
• 10+ year of experience
• Innovative concepting skills and great presentation skills
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite
• Natural communicator with strong visual and verbal presentation skills
• Positive attitude, genuine team player and a self-starter and go-getter attitude
• Proven track record of leading teams to successful activations

ABOUT US – MOMENTUM WORLDWIDE Momentum is an agency of doers. We make the industry’s most disruptive, entertaining, shareable, unforgettable experiences for our clients and their fans. We do it by bringing people closer to what they love, in original and unexpected ways. Whether it’s a physical activation, a virtual experience, or a piece of unique branded content, it’s all part of what we call the Total Brand Experience — ideas that solve business challenges, through best-in-class Consulting, Strategy, Analytics, Experience Design, and Production.

We want you to help brands do amazing, unprecedented, wild things, creating experiences that people never forget.

At Momentum, we expect our employees to embody our values! Our Core Values of Be One, Do Great Work, Have Fun, Give Back and Grow empower an environment where we challenge ourselves professionally and encourage each other personally.

At Momentum, we make our differences matter! Who we are matters. We choose to hire diverse voices from all walks of life. We choose to make our culture one where everyone can be their authentic self and speak in their voice. We choose to give each other permission to get things wrong, so we can learn to make them right. We choose to celebrate the bravery of our peers and we choose to be collectively responsible.

At Momentum, we make our actions matter! Making it matter means always choosing the sustainable option. It means designing waste out from the start. It means working with the right materials. Sourcing locally, innovating off-the-shelf solutions and reusing and repurposing. It means powering smarter. Traveling less. And only working with vendors who do the same. Make it matter means becoming the first experiential agency in the world to receive 2 ISO certifications.

Momentum Worldwide values diversity and the uniqueness of all people. We thrive in an inclusive environment, and we recruit, hire and promote without…