Associate Creative Director, Art

Position Overview

The Associate Creative Director (ACD) assists in managing the process of creating high quality, creative advertising materials. They act as a client liaison by presenting various stages of work to the client. They are brand stewards who understand the brand and business challenges, coming up with creative solutions. ACD's actively mentor their team members by providing developmental opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develop 360 campaigns from beginning to end that are on brand and on brief

• Ideate, conceptualize, and art direct with a strong strategic creative sense.

• Craft designs to produce effective broadcast, digital, and experiential campaigns.

• Collaborate effectively with Writers, Visual Designers, Experience Designers, Content Specialists, Creative Technologists, and Producers

• Demonstrate strong presentation skills, regularly presenting your own work

• Proactively keeps abreast of trends and technological advances

• Contribute to and participate in new business pitches

• Supervise junior team members, providing feedback, guidance, and development opportunities

• Manage large creative presentation decks from multiple teams, handling creative assignments from development through production

• Manage pieces of business with minimal oversight

• Find creative opportunities where possible even if they haven't been assigned.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree required.

• 6+ years of agency or marketing experience.

• Expert in MAC software and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator

• Extensive experience partnering with Creative peers

• Track record of creating opportunities and developing impactful work

• Advanced presentation skills

• Industry awarded work preferred

• Please submit a link to your work when applying.

• Ability to develop, challenge, and inspire people to do their best work, to think creatively, to adapt, innovate, and thrive.

• Ability to recognize the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an agency. Building teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve agency goals. Where they are seen, heard, and valued.

• Other duties as assigned*

The salary range for this position is $135-$165K. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience and qualifications.