Creative Director

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Job Overview
The Creative Director (CD) is responsible for leading the creative output of History Factory with minimal supervision. The CD guides and directs the work of creative teams, delivering creative strategy/plans, concepts, and executions for deliverables including corporate publications, museum-quality exhibits and environmental branding, video and digital executions, and any other types of media that serve the client’s business objectives. In this leadership role, the CD owns the creative process from start to finish and supervises a team of creatives to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final deliverables, providing direction, development, and course-correction (when needed). The CD brings their best creative work and ideas to the table while inspiring and facilitating the same within their team. The CD works closely with the account, production, and design teams to deliver the best client experiences from History Factory.
This role requires an individual who can create space for creativity to thrive while organizing work to meet deadlines.
Job Responsibilities
Creativity and Collaboration:
Connect a client’s past with its future goals and opportunities by collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, curators, and archivists to uncover and understand proprietary historical insights
Generate inventive ideas for creative deliverables that are informed by a client’s heritage and reflect their business intent by staying current on trends in design, marketing, communications, storytelling, and digital technologies.
Collaborate with the account manager to draft and/or review creative briefs for all assignments. Ensure that teams have clear understanding of creative briefs––and steer creative output that stays on-strategy, on-task, on-brand, and on budget
Lead brainstorm and collaboration sessions to generate ideas
Write and/or design unique and well-crafted content as necessary
Evaluate and guide the creative team’s work-in-progress to ensure that it conforms to the standards and specifications of the creative brief and established vision of the project.
Collaborate with design and production teams to move projects from concept to completion
Oversee and direct the work of writers, designers, and freelancers and motivate teams to produce the best work possible
Leadership:
Supervise a cross-functional team of creatives (e.g., associate creative leads, graphic designers, copywriters, curators, third-party vendors) by inspiring the team to develop innovative content deliverables.
Oversee and direct creative workflow, identifying and addressing blockages or issues to delivering creative work on time by addressing performance, workflow, and quality issues.
Act as the client-facing representative for the creative team on all assigned accounts
Manage and coach assigned team members, taking responsibility for their development as creatives at HF
Conduct/participate in annual reviews of direct reports
Participate in business development opportunities, including identifying potential work, pitching ideas, and collaborating with the business development team
Productivity:
Produce innovative branding experiences that translate complex ideas into compelling print materials, physical installations, or digital exhibits for visually sophisticated audiences.
Manage competing demands of time and resources to meet project deadlines by developing plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
Adhere to client brand, messaging and product parameters and ensure all work is on-brand
Ensure creative excellence and quality of creative product on all assignments
Job Requirements
Industry-specific experience
: Portfolio of work demonstrating your previous experience in the creative industry, e.g., art director, copywriter, or graphic designer.
Leadership or management experience:
Experience leading and managing creative teams and projects
Advanced knowledge of sales and marketing
: Knowledge of principles and methods for
showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, and sales techniques.
Advanced knowledge of communications and media
: Knowledge of media production,
communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media
Skills, Abilities and Behaviors
Active listening skills:
Gives full attention to what other people are saying, takes time to understand the points being made, asks questions as appropriate, and does not interrupt at inappropriate times.
Leadership skills:
Motivates and provides direction in the activities of others to accomplish goals; gains the respect and confidence of others; appropriately assigns work and authority to others in the accomplishment of goals; provides advice and assistance as required.
Communication skills:
Presents and expresses ideas and information effectively and concisely in an oral and/or written mode; shares information with others and facilitates the open exchange of ideas and information
Writing skills:
Communicates effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Complex problem-solving skills:
Identifies complex problems and reviews related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Critical thinking skills:
Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Fluency of Ideas:
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Originality:
The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Flexibility of Thinking:
The ability to respond to change, do things differently, and produce many inventive ideas.
Visualization:
The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Tools & Technologies
Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD
Familiarity with Google collaborative tools and file sharing (Docs, Slides, Google Drive)
Familiarity with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
Knowledge of video or animation production preferred
AMERCIANS WITH DISABILITY SPECIFICATIONS
Physical Demands
Regularly required to sit for extended periods; walk; stand; drive; use hands to handle objects and feel controls; talk; listen; and vision capabilities that enable reading and viewing a computer screen.
Work Environment
Work environment is an office setting (work station). Employee is not exposed to weather conditions and noise level in work area is minimal.

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