Company Description
Saatchi & Saatchi X partners with our clients to create dynamic solutions rooted in shopper know-how. We like to think of ourselves as a different kind of creator. Elevating the expected, and embracing the new, the next, and the complex. Our ideas deliver real results for our clients to drive their business and help them evolve. It’s simply what happens when strategy, creative, and execution fearlessly collaborate to create the future of commerce.
Job Description
The Creative Director is responsible for leading and motivating their team to consistently produce exceptional work. Partnering closely with account management, strategy, and producers to ensure that clients are consistently satisfied with the quality of their team’s work.
- Works with the Group Creative Director to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team
- Helps develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
- Promote a culture of creative quality and accountability and ensure creative deliverables meet both our clients’ expectations and our own standards of excellence
Specific Duties:
- Demonstrates an understanding of their clients marketing challenges and is proactively proposing creative solutions.
- Trains new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures and works with their team to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
- Works with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth and participate in new business pitches.
- Develops and evaluates creative concepts, copy and art, providing direction prior to review by account management.
- Sets high creative standards that lead to a body of work that is consistently recognized by clients and agency management as on strategy and unique.
- Manages the workload for assigned book of business to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
- Imparts industry expertise and experience to the team.
- Effectively communicate creative concepts and strategies to both clients and our internal team.
- Lead the development of case studies showcasing their team’s work.
- Organize and lead brainstorms.
- Manage creative resources to develop multiple campaigns simultaneously.
- Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.
- Builds strong client relationships and explore new ways to deliver value.
- Presents, shares and reviews creative work with Executive Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team.
- Manages projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors.
- Mentors and trains team members, write performance reviews, and allocate work.
Qualifications
- MUST HAVE AGENCY BACKGROUND
- Portfolio must include digital (social, mobile, web) and 360 campaign work
- Work must show strong conceptual thinking with a keen sense of design
- Food and Beverage experience is a plus
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience
- Solid knowledge of steps required in creative development process: provides guidance to achieve creative direction; gives timely and helpful coaching; and produces all work in a timely, cost-effective manner
- Mastery of all applicable Adobe Creative Suite software
- Good presentation skills
- Proven creative leader with strong people-management and coaching skills
- Ability to solve problems using keen instincts and organizational experience
- Must be able to travel
*Please provide portfolio link and resume when applying*
Additional Information
The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
- Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
- Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
- Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
- Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
- Matching Gifts programs
- Flexible working arrangements
- ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
- Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.
Saatchi & Saatchi X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $121,000 – $140,000. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.