Associate Digital Creative Director (Remote)

• Direct the daily functions of assigned cross-functional creative team, ensuring high performance through the implementation of operational, staffing, organizational and professional development best practices.
• Promote culture, one that values talent, collaboration, autonomy and accountability where every contributor strives to elevate these standards over time, driving the performance of the entire team.
• Develop, coach and mentor direct reports through formal and informal feedback, including annual performance reviews.
• Conduct performance reviews and regular, formal one-on-one touch points with direct reports.
• Provide strategic business advice and insights on best practices within area of responsibility.
• Ensure team is compliant with all client branding, operational, legal and regulatory mandates, policies and guidelines.
• Work harmoniously with others to get a job done and lead the team in a collaborative fashion.
• Share critical information with everyone involved in a project to produce more effective creative solutions.
• Help to set a tone of cooperation within the In-House agency and across the organization.
• Promote a solution-oriented mentality across the creative team.
• Encourage individuals to take on specific roles to deepen existing skills or develop new ones.
• Give the team proper recognition and credit for their contributions.
• Build a collective team vision and define goals and objectives for studio members.
• Lead with passion that energizes the team to over-deliver against expectations and results in high employee engagement and overall job satisfaction.

Creative Direction, Leadership and Execution

• Translate strategy into meaningful creative across various mediums including web, video, photography,  motion graphic and animation productions.
• Provide creative direction and coaching while partnering with staff to accomplish creative objectives.
• Provide creative quality control over concepts and execution.
• Provide brand guidance and direction to ensure consistent alignment with brand standards.
• Provide creative guidance and direction to ensure consistent alignment with industry best practices.
• Motivate the team to deliver a consistently high level of quality as evaluated by clients.
• Understand data used to track market trends and customer actions and use it to inform the creative work.
• Lead and mentor team in the creative process leveraging research, analytics and brand insights.
• Direct team as brand advocates, and in partnership with the CD encourage and develop new interpretations of the brand standards and out-of-the-box approaches to grow the verbal and visual identity of the brand to meet ever expanding company needs.
• Develop creative strategies as requested to address marketing and business objectives.
• Articulate the creative rationale that drives the concept’s execution and tactics.
• Expect team to push new thinking and challenge cliché or rerun ideas.
• Confidently and diplomatically steward new ideas through the organization on behalf of the team.

• Work to improve the team’s performance by pursuing opportunities for continuous learning/feedback.
• Constructively help and coach team in their professional development through informal and formal feedback sessions (i.e., performance reviews) as appropriate.
• Guide the workload, development, and growth of direct reports.
• Demonstrate a real sense of caring for the team’s professional and personal well being.
• Plan regularly scheduled one-on-one time for personal coaching and mentoring of direct reports.
• Implement and refine conceptual development/ideation process and define.
• Coach team on presentation expectations.
• Exhibit a “can-do” approach and inspire and motivate associates to excel.
• Foster a team spirit that is reflective of their collective personalities.
• Nurture a culture that is fun to work in and helps build an open creative community.
• Proactively address staff performance issues.
• Celebrate team and individual successes and create a safe environment for constructive feedback.

• Build strong relationships with clients and be perceived as a credible, trusted advisor.
• Partner with clients to achieve effective outcomes in an efficient manner.
• Work with clients to articulate creative needs concisely yet completely.
• Appropriately balance client desires, business requirements and marketing strategies.
• Find common ground with clients when debating creative or strategic opinions.