Associate Creative Director

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Position Details

Associate Creative Director
Job
Full-time
4/10/2018
Chicago Illinois
Chicago, IL

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You will be part of the team that’s re-envisioning the Pangea brand, working closely with your partners across brand, lifecycle, and demand generation marketing in addition to brand and digital agencies. This means you’ll play a key role in defining what the world thinks about Pangea. You will do this by helping lay the strategic foundation of the Pangea brand and build a design system for our multicultural customers.

The ideal candidate will be passionately customer-centric and have a deep portfolio that demonstrates design excellence in bringing brands, products, and services to life. This role is for a highly capable creative leader and team manager who can direct internal and external creative resources, and has the composure and communication talent to effectively engage with senior executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develop, inspire and build a team of designers, copy, and agency partners to create best-in-class campaigns for the multi-channel multicultural marketing efforts. 
  • Own creative strategy for multicultural campaigns, including the desktop homepage, product pages, mobile, email and applications 
  • No job is too small, this is a hands-on job especially for the first several months. 
  • Must have strong acumen for writing and developing a voice through words. 
  • Build and manage a creative team in Mexico City from our headquarters in Chicago. 
  • Must have strong project management skills. 
  • Manage the timely execution of all creative priorities with your team and stakeholders. 
  • Effectively develop relationships with product, brand, and marketing teams to develop strategy that drives compelling creative executions. 
  • Bring our brands, products, services to life and help raise the bar on customer engagement for our programs across demand generation (digital advertising), lifecycle marketing (CRM), brand awareness (tv/radio/OOH), social influencer programs, and our blog. 
  • Lead development of innovative online and offline creative assets, from concept to delivery. 
  • Evangelize brand style and tone, and develop usage guidelines and templates that support the business. 
  • Quickly develop concept mockups to visualize new ideas in context. 
  • Present campaign concepts effectively to senior executives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Strong copywriting skills 
  • An online portfolio of your work is required. Please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when you apply. 
  • Understand the nuances of multicultural marketing and be able to design systems that can translate into multiple ethnic markets. 
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience driving strategy and execution. 
  • Demonstrated creative leadership 
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, English, Communications, Fine Arts, Design or similar or equivalent professional experience. 
  • A demonstrated portfolio of breakthrough creative ideas, creating original advertising and creative marketing concepts. 
  • Experience with a high-volume advertising design studio, ad agency or internal corporate agency. 
  • Ability to speak a second language and have familiarity with one of the many cultural markets we serve. Spanish is particularly useful. 
  • Experience building creative teams, finding the best talent, nurturing that talent, and knowing how to use both internal and external resources effectively. 
  • Ability to lead multiple, simultaneous creative development efforts effectively in a fast-paced, metric driven environment. 
  • Must move fast and have a bias towards action. 
  • Understand the concept of working in an agile environment and comfortable with the idea of iterating. 
  • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to effectively multi-task in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Experience in a startup environment a plus. 
  • Experience in fintech or tech industries are a big plus. 
  • Unwavering attention to detail with an acute awareness that every design detail in creative execution counts. 
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on creative projects, and history of establishing effective creative development processes. 
  • Demonstrated business acumen, including experience of budgeting and resourcing. 
  • Self-motivated team player, with refined and assertive leadership skills. 
  • Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business and user interaction priorities. 
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Keynote, and Microsoft Office.


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