Job Summary

Responsibilities

Managing day to day creative development across a family of brands, and providing approval for a variety of creative campaigns and initiatives. You’ll research and explore best in class design solutions and relevant cultural touchpoints.
Setting the visual aesthetic and tone across all of our brands. You’ll be focused on on evolving and iterating visual brand guidelines ensuring they are innovative, on-brand, on-trend and tone appropriate.
Drawing on your entrepreneurial spirit and drive to continuously innovate to lead the branding team to creative excellence. You’ll hire, coach, lead and manage the career, workload and professional development of your team of designers, branding specialists, writers, and contractors.
Playing a key leadership role. You’ll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in multiple projects, maturing overall workflow and creative processes, and owning and leading major strategic initiatives.

Requirements

A strong professional background in design, branding and art direction for creative products. We’re looking for 5+ years of relevant experience at a digital agency or consultancy, ideally in a senior-level role.
A deep curiosity and awareness of emerging design trends, and the ability to create design guidelines and communicate design philosophies to the rest of the team, and beyond.
A portfolio that reflects your strengths in exemplary art direction and branding.
An ability to define and simplify scope in a way that helps everyone arrive at a deeper understanding and appreciation of the work.
The ability to prioritize and execute, based on what will be most impactful to the business.
A demonstrated reliance on using data: you use data and user research to support and defend design decisions.
Stellar leadership skills; you can articulates goals and employ outstanding leadership and team building skills. You help elevate the quality of your team’s work, and evolve the skillsets of those around you. We’re looking for someone who communicates with honesty and kindness (and creates the space for others to do the same), and who fosters connection by building trusting relationships.
A clear vision. You can align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to deliver. You prioritize diversity and inclusion in your design process and team, and you have high integrity, consistency in your work, and a clear and visible set of values.
A growth mindset: You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment. You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing creative solutions. You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement.