Business Responsibilities:

• Results management of one or several creative teams including: Art Directors, Copywriters, and Graphic Designers—partnering with Team Leaders toward mentoring for each direct report.
• Organizes and leads creative reviews within department.
• Contributes to preliminary strategy formation for each assigned line of business.
• Review and approval of new creative proposals (Briefs).
• Recommends creative testing.
• Recommends and deciding upon use of outside creative vendors.
• Recommend product development and tests across lines of business.
• Serves as central figure in the cross-fertilization process and leading brainstorming sessions within Brand Marketing, as well as other areas of the company.
• Self-organized and manage multiple numerous, concurrent projects

Experience:

• 4-year degree specializing in graphic design, communications, or similar discipline.
• 8+ years industry experience as a Creative Director
• Portfolio: Develops strategy and creates script for major advertising campaigns including broadcast, print and Web components. Supervises all aspects of the creative process, including managing full-time, freelance and vendors. Demonstrates ability to consistently remain within budget and deliver within deadline. Overcomes adversity and obstacles within teams.

Industry Knowledge:

• Direct Mail within the financial industry highly preferred.
• Quick to identify, address and incorporate trends into strategic development.
• Trains and mentors members of the creative team. Speaks and manages to industry Best Practices.

Technical Knowledge:
Creative Directors know the capabilities of today’s most commonly used software packages and can frequently make documents changes using the following: Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, MSWord, Acrobat