Associate Creative Director

Associate Creative Director

We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director with a background in art direction and creative direction who will help manage large-scale accounts. We’re seeking someone who is a highly conceptual problem solver, an articulate presenter of ideas, a builder of strong client relationships, and a storyteller who will convey our clients’ messaging in new and ground-breaking ways. You’ll have the chance to join a team that creates award-winning work for national and global brands largely across social impact and public healthcare, across social, traditional, and earned media including clients in the healthcare/pharmaceutical vertical.

You’ll be someone who values mentoring and managing teams of junior creatives, leading by example, with a keen eye for organization and detail. You’ll motivate the team and keep them focused on the task at hand – but you’ll still love getting your hands dirty managing the creative process and work alongside them. You will work closely with project management, production, and account teams to help keep the work running smoothly.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Generate creative solutions across all existing and emerging platforms including: product launches, digital advertising, social campaigns, PR stunts, online videos, TV ads, radio ads and a wide variety of brand touch-points
• Cultivate an inclusive culture within the team that values trust, honest and team accountability towards defined goals and results
• Execute work in a variety of conceptual disciplines, generating big ideas while demonstrating comprehension of executional ones.
• Push creative boundaries and propose brave ideas
• Manage the overall quality of the creative concept and its execution on assigned programs
• In partnership with the Creative Director/Executive Creative Director, continually lead projects to innovate the process, the ideas, and the strategies to grow accounts
• Find solutions that will have a business impact on clients as well as a cultural impact on consumers
• Communicate and be a storyteller for your team’s conceptual and directional choices
• With the Creative Director/Executive Creative Director, drive the collaborative efforts of the project's creative team
• Continually develop practices and processes to lead, inspire, innovate, and harness new ways of thinking

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates conceptual big thinking
• Values teamwork, inclusivity, honesty, trust and team accountability
• 7 to 10 years’ experience as a creator, managing projects as a part of a team
• A love for art and design, but an eye for great writing.
• A real grasp of what makes for compelling work – whether on social platforms, in video, or in big earned media activations and ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d done that” envy
• The ability to concept across a broad range of media, in a variety of tones and voices
• Solid knowledge of the marketing industry at large; an ability and a desire to adapt to the changing landscape of technology
• Proven leadership skills managing multiple projects/tasks/teams of varying complexities, meeting deadlines, and working well under pressure
• Video production experience – whether for online video, TV, etc. – and the ability to storyboard and art direct concise scripts accordingly
• An authentic attitude geared towards positive, solutions-focused action that always comes from a place of respect and inclusion
• Exceptional internal and external communication skills, someone who can present and uphold their work clearly and confidently
• Experience with social media platforms and a working knowledge of their best practices
• An interest in staying on top of emerging platforms, mobile design, & development trends

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior healthcare and social impact experience a plus.
• Education in advertising design, writing or conceptual thinking is preferred.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint); any AfterEffects animation skills will be utilized.
• Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, AfterEffects animation skills, videography, HTML.

NOTE: If you are selected for an interview, please come prepared to discuss and showcase your design skills, and walk through your conceptual/strategic creative approach to assignments (show us how your brain works). Use whatever work or case studies necessary to best represent these areas of expertise.

Powell Tate is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We welcome and encourage black & indigenous people, people of color, caregivers, people with disabilities, foreign nationals, veterans, gender non-conforming people and people from other diverse backgrounds to apply.

Powell Tate recruits qualified applicants and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Weber Shandwick is proud to The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including: 

• Medical 
• Dental 
• Vision 
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit 

ABOUT US

Weber Shandwick is a leading global communications and marketing services firm in 78 cities with a network extending to 128 cities around the world. The firm’s diverse team of strategists, analysts, producers, designers, developers and campaign activators has won the most prestigious awards in the world for innovative, creative approaches and impactful work. Weber Shandwick was the only public relations agency included on the Advertising Age Agency A-list in 2014 and 2015 and the only PR firm designated an A-List Agency Standout in 2017 and 2018. Weber Shandwick was honored as PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, The Holmes Report’s Global Agency of the Year in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017, and The Holmes Report’s Global Digital Agency of the Year in 2016. The firm deploys deep expertise across sectors and specialty areas, including consumer marketing, corporate reputation, healthcare, technology, public affairs, financial services, employee engagement, social impact, financial communications and crisis management, using proprietary social, digital and analytics methodologies. Weber Shandwick is part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). For more information, visit http://www.webershandwick.com.  

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