Creative Art Director

Agency Creative Directors are designers, filmmakers and storytellers. They are catalysts for change. Using creative vision, experience and ambition, they lead teams and inspire the best work the industry has seen. A conceptual creator across all mediums that eats, breathes and sleeps advertising

• Generate innovative ideas across all existing and emerging digital platforms and inspire colleagues to create world-class, pioneering ideas.
• Guide, teach and mentor senior members of the Creative department in developing ideas further.
• Continually provide feedback to, and consultations with, all levels of staff within and outside of assigned client groups.
• Creatively lead new business pitches and competently present to prospective clients.
• Identify team members’ training and development needs.
• Deploy resources in the most efficient way possible and identify freelance and permanent recruitment needs.
• Develop and cultivate a relationship with client management, as well as with management personnel, in other departments within the agency itself.
• Maintain a strong understanding of budgets.
• Intimately understand the client’s business, industry and competition, leveraging that knowledge to help generate new ideas to strategically grow their business
• Effectively interact with clients as needed in a way that positively impacts the agency relationship, including presentation of new initiatives, concepts and campaigns
• Work under minimal supervision to lead creative
• Handle multiple tasks easily, consistently meeting or exceeding deadlines and client/agency expectations
• Consistently collaborate with team members throughout the work process to foster, facilitate and consistently deliver great work that is on strategy, on time, and on budget
• Ensure work is on-strategy, breakthrough, appropriate for the brand and approved by senior management

• Extensive experience working as an associate creative director or creative director level in an agency environment.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience
• Art direction ability that is rooted in the craft of design
• Demonstrated creative success leading collaborative, multi-functional teams.
• Considerable experience of global projects.
• Participate in New Business/RFP/ETC developing and leading client relationships.