Creative Director

Job Description

About Blue Hour

Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared, remixed, and talked about. We create at the intersection of culture, content, creators, and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand.

Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles and backed by Horizon Media, we connect creativity and media to drivereal business impact.

The Creative teamis responsible forthe output of content we create for our brand partners. Combining creator/influencer practices and creative practices allows us to imprint community-driven creativity into every post, partnership,campaignor video we create.

The role of the Creative Director within Blue Hour Studios is to power its creative competency from idea to execution. The Creative Directoris an avant-garde leader, and robust creative thinker. They will conceive and pitch original brandedconceptsacross formats (social,event, partnerships, community, OOH and occasionally, more legacy channels). They will present polished, strategic creative in collaboration with their Creative team members, andthewider Blue Hour team (Account, Strategy, Influencer).

They will lead client workshops,brainstorm sand tissue sessions. They will ensure that Blue Hour Studios creative is premium and frontline andwill provide input acrossa wide variety of creative project sand clients. This person will provide input onproductionsand design projects andensure the premium quality of all creative output.

• Responsible for managing junior members of the creative team
• Provides actionable, constructive, and palatable written and verbal feedback as necessary
• Keeps team up to date with new processes, tools, ideas, and innovative executions
• Conductsperformance reviews and manages expectations of their staff
• Sets expectations for growth potential for junior creatives

You’rehands on, culturally switched on andinsatiablycurious.

You’rea ‘tastemaker,’an identifiable leader. You live on the bleeding edge ofrealworld and online culture and know how tobring others ‘in’onit.

You’repassionate about social media, branded social content, influencers/creatorsandtherein for opportunities for brands. You care about how the algorithms work and think deeply about what makesgood content.

You can express ideas through powerful, conciseverbaland written storytelling paired withwell-curated visuals that sell it.

You know about the next hyped advertising / social media marketing ‘thing’ beforeit hits trades,and you know what makes a consumer headline that really hits onculture and gets people talking about a brand or a product.

You have a realistic understanding of culture outside the four walls of advertising and understand how toleveragemarket and industry research to inform netnew ideas.

You’vedone design workor more general art direction across mediums.

You might have helped toproduce shootsor art direct on sets
-most likely,youcame up withthe idea itself.

• 10+years of experience in a creative role
• At least4+ in a leadership role
• Portfolio featuring examplesfromprojects onTikTok, Reels, X,and/or You Tube Shorts for brands
• Exceptional storyteller, mastery of presentation skills with the goal of selling exciting work
• Strong conceptual skills anddemonstratedpassion for social media
• Culture-first thinker who can extrapolate insights that drive creative work
• High design aesthetic and experienced in design thinking
• Strong observationalskills,can distill complex creative nuances and explain them
• Experience managing design,production and experiential teams to execute brand content, and experiences (this includes on-set experience, with and without clients on-site)
• Innate curiosity and compassion
• Fluency in presentation and slide design in Google Slides,PowerPoint and Keynote
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects)

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