Creative Director

Overview

Purpose of Role

The Creative Director uses their extensive background to direct the vision of the project across a creative team to produce content incorporating innovative design along with targeted messaging.

This role requires a hands-on professional with the ability to apply their knowledge of the client’s market, organizational goals and strategies to execute on story and/or design through appropriate technology.

Key responsibilities

• Inspire, lead and drive high quality creative production output from conception through to completion
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to deliver value, quality and strategic output for them
• Identify creative production opportunities, helping to create a pipeline of work for the studio
• Align approach within the studio with client strategies from across the business, including brand marketing, events, and corporate communications
• Deliver industry insight and market trends to drive innovation
• Collaboration with the wider creative production community
• Identify and develop solutions which meet client requirements, work within the client brand guidelines and are accessible for the intended audience
• Provide creative consultation as part of the briefing process with the studio on best solutions and media, to ensure a successful output and happy client
• Hands on management of complex jobs, pre-empting issues, coordinating work and production, including print and delivery
• Monitor progress of activities to ensure adherence to deadlines, quality standards, and client brand guidelines
• Ensure that message quality, format, and content meet the brief and are consistent with firm-wide communication guidelines
• Guide and advise members of the team in the design and use of template material, providing training where necessary
• To be a technical expert in all areas of design for print and digital media
• To ensure quality control and pre-flight checking procedures are adhered
• To support the Studio Manager in ensuring internal workflow practices are adhered to within the studio, and all billable work is recorded

Personal attributes

• Excellent communication skills, articulate, personable and confident
• Enjoys working with and presenting to clients with excellent client relationship and management skills
• Experienced leading a team of designers and takes a collaborative, proactive approach to handling issues and supporting clients
• In depth knowledge and understanding of design and production across printed and digital disciplines
• Highly organised managing yours and others workloads, managing multiple projects effectively with a polite confident manner
• Calm and personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Strong level of technical and integrated creative design knowledge
• Creative direction and creative problem solving
• Project management
• Experience managing teams and freelancers
• Brand strategy
• Art direction

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level in a relevant discipline, with substantial and relevant experience in the Design sector.

Software knowledge:

• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Atom
• HTML
• CSS
• MailChimp
• SketchUp
• Monday
• Microsoft Office
• Webflow
• Shopify
• WordPress
• Rewards and Benefits