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Methods+Mastery · 2 hours ago

Creative Director

Texas, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$110K/yr - $150K/yr

10+ years exp

Methods+Mastery is seeking a talented Creative Director to lead creative efforts on Fortune 500 brand marketing and communications, primarily in the tech sector. The role involves concepting and collaborating to create campaigns across various media while ensuring high creative standards are met and driving business development.

AdvertisingMarketingSocial Media Marketing

Responsibilities

Ideating, concepting, and developing earned, owned, video, and social creative platforms and solutions for marketing and communications clients spanning some of the biggest brands in consumer and B2B tech, automotive, energy, and financial services

Presenting, pitching, and selling creative ideas to clients to grow our creative, video, content, social, brand & product marketing, and PR business to existing and net new customers

Leading creative business development to grow revenue and ensure revenue standards are met among creative staff. This will include proactive networking and lead generation, contributing to agency marketing and thought leadership, scoping and pricing new creative work

Leading a high-quality creative operation across process, people, and product. This includes end-to-end oversight and creative leadership with external creative production partners

Setting the standard for creative, continually strengthening the product to deliver best-in-class work

Working collaboratively to develop effective creative solutions, partnering with fellow creatives, strategists, planners, analysts, and media specialists

Adopting and driving use of agency-approved generative AI tools and solutions, and developing new creative workflows, products, and solutions using AI tools

Mentoring and managing creatives across art and copy to develop depth and skills

Contributing to agency culture, Impact and Inclusion initiatives, and agency strategic priorities

Qualification

Creative conceptingClient communicationLeadershipAdobe PhotoshopFigmaInDesignDigital marketingCuriosityStorytellingTeam collaborationAdaptability

Required

A stellar portfolio that demonstrates your 10+ years of experience related to creative concepting —preferably for a social media, content, creative, digital, or integrated marketing agency or brand team

Proven experience in developing, pitching, and selling creative concepts, programs and production deliverables – including scoping and pricing

Excellent client and team communication skills, including presentation, storytelling, and facilitation of workshops and brainstorms. You provide exceptional client counsel, and you're adept at understanding and pivoting to client needs. You're an expert at taking feedback from clients and members of M+M outside the creative team to develop successful solutions

Proven leadership ability. You'll lead, mentor, and inspire a team of art directors, designers, and copywriters, ensuring high standards are met through effective feedback and creative reviews. You're also a hands-on leader who isn't afraid to get your hands dirty alongside your team

Experience managing a team against profitability and revenue targets

Proven ability to understand and respond to creative briefs, translating to measurably successful creative concepts and work. Ability to convey strategic direction/requirements into creative concepts and creative products

Experience setting the creative standard, using an effective approach to feedback that strengthens the work and the people behind it

Demonstrated curiosity - you're a culture hawk who goes down rabbit holes to understand audiences and trends and use them to inform your creative

Experience in developing creating artifacts to support creative concepts, including treatments, storyboards, visualizations, and mood boards. Adobe Photoshop, Figma, InDesign, and Google Slides skills, and the ability to build and edit storyboards, are a huge plus

Ability to adapt and change based on latest and ever-changing toolsets and technology

Bachelor's Degree in a creative, marketing, or communications-related field, or equivalent work experience, coupled with 8-10+ years of experience at a mid-sized to large agency

Experience and working knowledge of creative types and formats across earned channels, social media platforms, and emerging technologies

A detailed understanding of social, content, and digital best practices, i.e. design optimization, usability & functionality

Basic understanding of UI design principles and best practices

Understanding of production process spanning content types and formats. Video production experience is a bonus

Practical planning and operational skills that ensure process, resources, talent, and budget are aligned with your creative vision and will successfully bring an idea to fruition

Exceptional understanding of art and copy disciplines, capabilities, and terminology

A growing understanding of generative AI's role in creative ideation and execution, to make your creative work more efficient, effective, and creative. Experience applying generative AI in your work is a bonus

Deep skills in collaborating and partnering, particularly with strategists, planners, and analysts who have helped to power your creative concepting, sharpen your critical thinking, and drive informed decision-making

Insatiable appetite to learn, grow, work hard, have fun, be entrepreneurial, curious, and inventive