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Job Description

As an Artistic Director Visual Design at Ubi MTL, you are in charge of the quality and content of graphic and audiovisual productions. You will ensure that the elements produced are aligned with the game’s vision and propose creative and innovative ideas and concepts.

Collaborating closely with artists and designers across production teams, you’ll support them in pushing concepts further, producing consistent work, and enhancing player experiences through impactful visuals.

What you’ll do

• Propose graphic or audiovisual concepts based on the client’s brief in the form of a synopsis, mood board or sketch.
• Define the artistic style of the graphic or audiovisual mandate inspired from the game’s artistic direction (reference films, competing games and design documents).
• Ensure that the artistic vision is communicated through the visual identity.
• Create lit and original concepts that support the game’s positioning with the various project teams.
• Communicate expectations to the production team assigned to the mandate and ensure the quality and content of the ambiances, sets, characters, narration, etc. using visual references and documents that describe the artistic direction.
• Follow up and validate the team’s finished work so the elements produced are in line with the initial brief and the game’s vision, and ensure that the quality is respected.
• Work directly with the project director and artists.
• Produce documents such as GAP (Game Artistic Personality), brief, guide style.

Qualifications

What you bring

• Around 10 years of UI, visual design, branding, or art direction experience (in the video game industry, a huge plus) or other relevant experience
• A degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Multimedia, or equivalent
• An understanding of art fundamentals and artistic culture
• In-depth knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, and 3D software (e.g. 3DS Max)
• The ability to give constructive feedback and to convey an artistic direction + make it a shared goal
• A highly creative, collaborative, and innovative spirit
• Open-mindedness: you’re receptive to new ideas and fresh perspectives
• Solid interpersonal and presentation skills
• Effective cross-departmental communication: you have the know-how to communicate with tech and creative teams alike
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done!

What to send our way

• Your CV, highlighting your experience, education, and skills
• A portfolio of your best work (attach images or send us a link to your personal website or online portfolio)

About Us

Additional Information

Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission: enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come.

Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.

When you join Ubi MTL, you discover a workplace that sparks inspiration and connection. We offer a collaborative space that provides career advancement, a host of learning opportunities, and meaningful benefits centred on well-being.

If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, harnessing cutting-edge technologies, and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join us on our journey and help us create the unknown.

At Ubisoft, you can come as you are. We embrace diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.
Ubisoft Montréal

Uline

Description

The SVP, Associate Creative Director is responsible for ensuring that all Agency work is on strategy and meets or exceeds the highest level of creative accomplishment. You’ll contribute to growing the Clients’ business. They act as the Creative Director’s right hand and is able to step in to fulfill these functions when necessary. The SVP, Associate Creative Director/Copy also acts an advocate for Biolumina while helping to identify and recruit new talent as well as provides leadership and guidance within their department.

General Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high.
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions
• Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Clients’ business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs)
• Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums and printing.
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications. Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process
• Contribute to new business efforts creatively, as a reliable steward of the work, and presenting the work in the new business effort

Brand Champion

• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Clients’ business
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives
• Attend photo-shoots; provide necessary on-the-spot feedback to vendors to effectively accomplish agency and client goals
• Acts as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary

Collaboration

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with Client/Agency Creative/Account teams
• Help create a collaborative work environment between all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner
• Work with account service from beginning of project until the end to make sure all projects meet budgetary guidelines
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize the internal business group departments (electronic studio, editorial, traffic, imaging and production) appropriately

Management Responsibilities

• Demonstrate the ability to manage time and prioritize all jobs effectively, as well as oversee junior members of the art brand team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work
• Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized
• Help supervisor manage and resolve staff issues including performance, personal presentation and internal interactions
• Recommend adjustments/additions to the roles and procedures of the department to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across all accounts and/or specific accounts.
• Help interview, train and orient new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of Creative Director
• Mentors reports by providing constructive, ongoing feedback to them as well as completing annual performance reviews
• Provide ongoing guidance to all team members and be available to them as a resource for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc.
• Keep supervisor or department head appraised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers or moving creatives around to better utilize their time
• Oversee team’s time off schedules, time reporting, etc. to ensure appropriate coverage at all times for accounts. Maintain accurate time sheets for self and team. Monitor, review and approve direct report’s time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs

Vice-President Responsibilities

• Acts as an advocate of Biolumina; makes decisions with the Agency’s and employees’ best interest in mind
• Provides leadership within his/her department as well as across the Agency
• Proactively provides suggestions that impact agency policy and operations
• Demonstrates support of the Agency’s goals and mission
• Presents a professional and positive image of Biolumina both internally and externally
• Motivates direct reports, and acts as a mentor to all within Agency
• Identifies, recruits, trains and develops talent

Qualifications

• College degree
• 8+ years of art design/direction experience
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience
• 3-4 years of supervisory experience
• Proficiency with creative programs/suites
• Advertising or design portfolio
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills

Biolumina’s Values

Open Mind

• Always ask why—of your teammates, your clients, and yourself. And don’t stop there—keep asking questions
• Be respectful of others’ ideas, opinions, and diverse backgrounds
• Be flexible and adaptive to new ways of doing things

Brave Heart

• Speak your mind…and your heart
• Courageously step forward to try something new and help others to do the same
• Be brave enough to defend your opinions—and brave enough to change them

Ready Hands

• Be proactive and push things forward
• Reach out to offer help and raise your hand to ask for help
• Go out of your way to show gratitude

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you

Biolumina

We are seeking candidates local to the Des Moines area for our current opening. ITA Group maintains a flexible work environment with the opportunities to work at home as needed.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a Creative Director (CD) at ITA Group, you’ll lead a dynamic team of writers, designers and production managers to create innovative communication campaigns for clients of every size, shape and type. Planning effective communications that will motivate audiences in a wide-variety of industries, working with your team to create engaging program themes, producing good-looking print and digital pieces—you’ll be leading the charge from start to finish and dipping your toe in every part of the creative process. And before you can say “mo’ money, mo’ problems,” yep, you’ll need to channel your left-brain powers to manage campaign profitability, too. Our list of clients is growing rapidly, so wear comfortable shoes—you’ll need them in our fast-paced industry. But it’s not all work and no play! Our team of creatives is composed of book nerds, movie gurus, artisanal bakers, animal lovers, sports nuts and more—an ideal mix for having fun while creating award-winning campaigns.

HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in the areas of Graphic Design, English or Journalism.
• Minimum ten years professional experience as a Sr. Graphic Designer, Art Director, Copywriter or Creative Supervisor in an advertising agency or similar environment.
• Thorough understanding of the overall creative process and techniques, including conceptualization, design, copy development, production artwork, pre-press, computer graphics, printing technologies and web/internet design/software/technologies.
• Strong creative abilities and the ability to develop innovative ideas and concepts.
• Ability to lead, motivate and supervise creative/professional individuals, leading them to a higher level of quality and creativity.
• Ability to have a positive attitude and effect on the creative/professional staff.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• General understanding of financial analysis and budget development.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage workflows and schedules of the creative/professional staff, even in the midst of stressful and difficult circumstances.
• Mac computer experience required. Software experience must include: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator, PhotoShop and InDesign.
• Ability to listen, understand and respond to external and internal customers’ needs in a timely manner; customer service experience in a service-related industry preferred.
• Ability to work the time necessary to complete projects and/or meet deadlines.

ITA Group, Inc.

Creative Director

We are looking for a Creative Director with a passion for helping people and who want to help us make a difference in the lives of blended families (stepfamilies) and marriages.

Our Ministry’s Mission: BKF exists to break the cycle of divorce, equip marriages, and unite blended families with the truth of God’s word. We educate families with biblical resources and practical skills, empowering them to flourish in their kingdom identity and live life abundantly.

Blended Kingdom Families is a 501 c3 non-profit organization. We are looking to build a strong, creative and dynamic team with the help of this position. The Creative Director at BKF will oversee and manage the creative team, including art direction, creative copywriting, video production & editing, graphic design, digital project, social media presence and more. The Creative Director will lead the way in how Blended Kingdom Families brand is utilized and implemented across the organization. Ideation and creative thinking will be necessary to lead the team in brainstorming, implementation and execution of ideas, as well as keen attention to detail and project organization and execution. The Creative Director needs to be a good storyteller in order to keep a consistent through line of the Blended Kingdom Families brand going through all design, video digital and printed media.

Location: Colleyville, TX – ON SITE (not a remote position)

Work Environment:

Blended Kingdom Families is an open collaborative work environment that possesses a “we over me” mindset. Team members work closely together to accomplish the overall goal while establishing trust, respect, and grace towards each other.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Will report directly to COO of ministry and collaborate closely with the Creative Writing Director
• Weekly check in meetings with the entire team and individual team members
• Supervise the department’s daily workflow, assign project workload, and monitor deadlines and budgets
• Oversee the projects from beginning to completion for the creative team- this includes all social media, branding and themes for events and calendars, creative projects and fundraising events
• Determine which projects to accomplish in house and which need to be outsourced based on team workload, capacity and skills
• Identify and manage relationships with vendors (e.g., animators, photographers, illustrators)
• Maintain and manage creative budgets as it pertains to various projects
• Conceiving and implementing concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and overseeing them to completion
• Provide clear, insightful and objective critiques of Creative work in connection to the strategic vision
• Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to creative team members, contractors and outside agencies

Creative Responsibilities:

• Have the ability to create eye-catching graphics and engaging designs when needed or to assist the digital content creator
• Handle graphic projects from start to finish
• Oversee graphics to be used on all social media pages, digital downloads, all event handouts- paper content, brochures etc. and website
• Ability to deliver creative content (text, image and video) while being spontaneous in certain situations- ‘capturing the moment’
• Understanding of photography and filming with light effects on people and faces
• A great passion for social media including Instagram, FaceBook, YouTube, TikTok etc.
• Underground understanding of social media algorithms, e.g, what makes a post attract the target segments
• Familiarity with online marketing strategies and marketing channels
• Ability to grasp future trends in digital technologies and act proactively
• Develop and maintain image library files
• Submit rough layouts for project approval
• Manage email marketing campaigns, social media advertising and other respective programs
• Coordinating with our Digital Strategist in developing, implementing, and managing our social media calendar & strategy
• Attending external events and associated conferences.
• Monitoring SEO, google analytics, user engagement, and content optimization
• Website management and proficient in Mailchimp and WordPress website platform (must)
• Defining social media KPIs and measuring the success of each social media campaign & account
• Manage and produce weekly email blasts, Newsletters, and blogs
• Lead team in producing new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns, and
• Marketing communications that reflect or instill BKF’s distinctive brand personality
• Remain current on best practices, trends and technology developments in the print and digital media space
• Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions
• Ensure visual communication and brand standards are met

Qualifications:

• Previous experience in graphic design, social media management and/or marketing
• Minimum 5 years design experience with 2-4 years’ experience managing/leading creative teams and 1 year of marketing or advertising experience.
• Must submit online portfolio for review
• Experience with all social media platforms- Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok etc.
• Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography, print, and the web
• Highly Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (adobe photoshop, illustrator, sketch, InDesign, and other graphic design software)
• Proficient in all Microsoft Products- Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365
• Proficient in Dropbox, Asana -Project Management System, Later, Mailchimp, WordPress
• Must possess strong business acumen, project management skills, presentation skills and have ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire the creative team to think outside the box
• Believer of Christ whose morals and values align with the mission and vision of the BKF ministry.
• Excellent team player with multitasking, communication, and time-management skills
• Autonomous individual with visionary ideas to help build the brand and ministry
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Must work well alone and in a team environment
• Deadline and detail-oriented
• Video editing capabilities, a plus
• Strong typography and/or ad copywriting experience/skills a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Communications, Advertising or related experience required

**All candidates must submit a design portfolio.

NOTE: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Blended Kingdom Families

ROLE: ART DIRECTOR

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

About The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a team of creatives, strategists, producers, designers, content creators and social media managers working directly with brands to deliver breakthrough ideas. What makes us different is the way we work. We leverage our unique position inside Kraft Heinz to drive creativity and agility that’s only possible with trust and collaboration with our brand partners. Sometimes we’re focused on our brands’ biggest briefs and campaigns, and sometimes we’re creating our own briefs inspired by opportunities that arise from culture and current events. Together, we’re breaking down barriers and empowering more –more ideas, from more places, and more opportunities to earn our consumers’ attention, and learn more about them.

Position Summary

In the Art Director role, you and your writing partner will create a wide range of ideas and creative concepts that stand out and earn attention. Your work will range from brand acts that create conversations, to advertising across a range of mediums, to compelling visual stories that stand out on social platforms. You’ll be a key part of a creative process that makes ideas, acts, and experiences that get shared and talked about on social and in the press.

You’ll use your strong concepting and ideation skills to produce great creative ideas and use your strength as a visual storyteller to bring them to life. You’ll translate your ideas (and the team’s concepts) into visuals for social media, digital advertising, and traditional content. You’ll partner with producers to make sure that a wide variety of content is captured and edited in a way that fits the iconic brands you represent. You’ll need a strong understanding of the best-practice design principles for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but you’ll also need to be comfortable breaking them with innovation that captures attention in new ways. Your experience in traditional mediums will help you raise the quality of work for social, but also work at a pace that fits the dynamic needs of the digital environment. You’ll use your unique skillset and trained eye to inspire the design team around you. Together, you and your team are building a design culture that moves food marketing forward.

Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.

Primary Responsibilities

• ART DIRECTION: Experienced visual expert who elevates the work and level of visual quality that meets high standards.
• INNOVATIVE & TRADITIONAL DESIGN: Work in a wide range of mediums ranging from traditional video and photo content, real world design (experiential) and social media content.
• BRAND DESIGN: Steward the design identity of iconic brands, ensuring they have a consistent look and feel online. You will translate brand strategy into powerful and purposeful creative concepts and are the final voice in ensuring these brands have consistently high-quality execution across all mediums.
• IDEATION: Actively participate in brainstorms with positive energy and dimensional thinking that leverages research and brand insights. Ability to articulate how we can bring ideas to life visually and able to think broadly about big ideas. Proactively seeks out current and upcoming new digital and design trends and best practices.
• PRESENTATION DESIGN: Manage a team to create compelling visual stories and get hands-on as required to design those presentation decks that sell through big ideas. Develops storyboards and presentation decks that help preview the creative ideas we want to make.
• COLLABORATION: Work as a part of a cross-functional design team, and as part of a larger creative team. Comfortable in an iterative environment.
• WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT: Can manage multiple priorities and assignments in a fast-paced, active environment to deliver high quality work, on time and with accuracy. Knows how to delegate work and manage a team’s capacity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in advertising, with a focus on ideation and concepting for brand acts, stunts, and storytelling. You have experience as an Art Director with a proven track record of leading other Designers and stewarding brands.
• A diverse portfolio showcasing examples of work you have created yourself, as well as work created by a team you managed. Your portfolio includes examples of strategic/conceptual thinking, visual design, and storytelling, and innovative social work that elevates the medium.
• College or University diploma in Art, Visual Communication Design, Advertising and/or Art Direction
• The ability to execute concepts at a level that is among the top tier in the industry.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Exposure to Art Direction, Photo Shoots, and UI/UX are an advantage.
• Proficient using Mac OS, Adobe Creative Cloud (Expert knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Keynote).
• Passion for food and food design with an insatiable curiosity to learn more about it
• A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work

The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability

The Kitchen

Company Description

This role is currently an open call. We are accepting submitted applications and will reach out when active recruitment for role is open. Please expect a delay in outreach as we are currently not actively recruiting for this position

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world’s best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.

At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.

Job Description

Mikros is looking for an experienced Art Director to work on an exciting new animated feature film. We are looking for someone with a proven track record of creative leadership, great interpersonal skills and animation production experience at a senior level, who is excited by the prospect of setting the visual direction for this ambitious movie in close collaboration with the director and production designer.

• Driving and managing the visual development of all of the movie’s design requirements.
• Effectively communicating the visual direction of the movie, by providing and sourcing relevant imagery and documentation.
• Collaborating with our director and carefully interpreting his feedback to ensure we meet our creative brief.
• Supervising a talented design department in generating art for our characters, sets and props as well as establishing mood, color language and lighting for our movie.
• Providing clear, concise and detailed direction to your design team for their assignments.
• Collaborating closely with other department supervisors and reviewing designs, models, surfacing, the color script, set dressing and light keys to ensure we meet the high production standards we expect to deliver to our clients.
• Providing clear and practical feedback to ensure the visual direction remains consistent for the duration of the production.
• Prioritizing, problem solving and finding efficient and effective solutions to allow us to complete the production to schedule and to budget.
• Developing and nurturing the skills and abilities of all the digital artists in your team.
• Have the ability to work to deadlines, be comfortable under pressure and able to effectively manage, motivate and develop your team and their skills.
• Collaborate closely with the production team to stay aligned with the production’s overall goals.

Qualifications

• Have proven experience working in animated features or television in Art & Design departments in a senior role.
• Have art directed (or acted in a similar role) at least one animated feature film.
• Be an excellent artist in their own right, as demonstrated through past work and/or their portfolio.
• Have a clear understanding of the steps and processes involved in creating and taking 2D designs all the way from concept through to final image in a 3D pipeline.
• Knowledge of drawing software including Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Knowledge in Maya is a plus.

Additional Information

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If you require assistance applying, please reach out to [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist.

TECHNICOLOR IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Mikros Animation

Gallery Manager

Taunton

£27k with uncapped commission!

We’re looking for a motivated manager to join this well established and hugely successful gallery in Taunton. Selling a range of high-end artwork from well-known and up and coming artists. Your Industry background is less important as someone with excellent sales ability, top-quality people skills and management experience would suit this role. Thorough Training will be given so knowledge in this field isn’t a requirement.

Some duties of the role will include:

• Maintaining relationships with the existing loyal customer base and establish new business.
• Manage the day to day running of the premises which including managing the rotas and maintaining high visual standards.
• Engage with customers entering the premises with a consultative approach that’s informative but not pushy.
• Using the database to inform customers of new arrivals or establish requirements for a new purchase.
• Develop and mentor the small team of consultants.
• Supporting with exclusive events.
• Occasional visits to client’s homes or workspaces to establish their needs.

The ideal candidate would be:

• A hard-working and tenacious professional who has a natural sales ability.
• Someone who is comfortable selling over the phone as well as face to face.
• A good communicator with leadership experience.
• Someone who has worked with high value items or with a premium product ideally, but a good attitude and people skills are more important.

In return there’s a good base salary with the opportunity to earn uncapped commission which is incredibly achievable and has the potential to be very lucrative. For the right person with the right attitude there are plenty of opportunities for progression within the business. You’ll be working five days out of seven, which will include Saturdays and the occasional Sunday.

To find out more about this role contact Helen

Sarah West Recruitment Ltd

Description

The SVP, Group Creative Director/Copy is responsible for ensuring that all Agency work is on strategy and meets or exceeds the highest level of creative accomplishment. The SVP, Group Creative Director contributes to growing the Clients’ business. They act as the EVP, Executive Creative Director’s right hand and is able to step in to fulfill these functions when necessary. The SVP, Group Creative Director/Copy also acts an advocate for Biolumina. The SVP, GCD helps to identify and recruit new talent as well as provides leadership and guidance within their department.

General Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high.
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions
• Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Clients’ business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs)
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications. Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process
• Contribute to new business efforts creatively, as a reliable steward of the work, and presenting the work in the new business effort

Brand Champion

• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Clients’ business
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives
• Acts as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary

Collaboration

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with Client/Agency Creative/Account teams
• Help create a collaborative work environment between all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner
• Work with account service from beginning of project until the end to make sure all projects meet budgetary guidelines
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize the internal business group departments (electronic studio, editorial, traffic, imaging and production) appropriately

Management Responsibilities

• Demonstrate the ability to manage time and prioritize all jobs effectively, as well as oversee junior members of the art brand team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work
• Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized
• Help supervisor manage and resolve staff issues including performance, personal presentation and internal interactions
• Recommend adjustments/additions to the roles and procedures of the department to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across all accounts and/or specific accounts.
• Help interview, train and orient new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of Creative Director
• Mentors reports by providing constructive, ongoing feedback to them as well as completing annual performance reviews
• Provide ongoing guidance to all team members and be available to them as a resource for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc.
• Keep supervisor or department head appraised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers or moving creatives around to better utilize their time
• Oversee team’s time off schedules, time reporting, etc. to ensure appropriate coverage at all times for accounts. Maintain accurate time sheets for self and team. Monitor, review and approve direct report’s time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs

Senior Vice-President Responsibilities

• Acts as an advocate of Biolumina; makes decisions with the Agency’s and employees’ best interest in mind
• Provides leadership within his/her department as well as across the Agency
• Proactively provides suggestions that impact agency policy and operations
• Demonstrates support of the Agency’s goals and mission
• Motivates direct reports, and acts as a mentor to all within Agency
• Identifies, recruits, trains and develops talent

Qualifications

• College degree
• 10+ years of copy experience
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience is a must have
• 5 years of supervisory experience
• Proficiency with Macintosh and all creative programs/suites
• Advertising or design portfolio
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills

Biolumina’s Values

Open Mind

• Always ask why—of your teammates, your clients, and yourself. And don’t stop there—keep asking questions
• Be respectful of others’ ideas, opinions, and diverse backgrounds
• Be flexible and adaptive to new ways of doing things

Brave Heart

• Speak your mind…and your heart
• Courageously step forward to try something new and help others to do the same
• Be brave enough to defend your opinions—and brave enough to change them

Ready Hands

• Be proactive and push things forward
• Reach out to offer help and raise your hand to ask for help
• Go out of your way to show gratitude

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you

Description

The SVP, Associate Creative Director/Copy is responsible for ensuring that all Agency work is on strategy and meets or exceeds the highest level of creative accomplishment. You’ll contribute to growing the Clients’ business. They act as the Creative Director’s right hand and is able to step in to fulfill these functions when necessary. The SVP, Associate Creative Director/Copy also acts an advocate for Biolumina while helping to identify and recruit new talent as well as provides leadership and guidance within their department.

General Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high.
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions
• Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Clients’ business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs)
• Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums and printing.
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications. Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process
• Contribute to new business efforts creatively, as a reliable steward of the work, and presenting the work in the new business effort
• In person client travel required

Brand Champion

• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Clients’ business
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives
• Attend photo-shoots; provide necessary on-the-spot feedback to vendors to effectively accomplish agency and client goals
• Acts as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary

Collaboration

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with Client/Agency Creative/Account teams
• Help create a collaborative work environment between all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner
• Work with account service from beginning of project until the end to make sure all projects meet budgetary guidelines
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize the internal business group departments (electronic studio, editorial, traffic, imaging and production) appropriately

Vice-President Responsibilities

• Acts as an advocate of Biolumina; makes decisions with the Agency’s and employees’ best interest in mind
• Provides leadership within his/her department as well as across the Agency
• Proactively provides suggestions that impact agency policy and operations
• Demonstrates support of the Agency’s goals and mission
• Presents a professional and positive image of Biolumina both internally and externally
• Motivates direct reports, and acts as a mentor to all within Agency
• Identifies, recruits, trains and develops talent

Qualifications

• College degree
• 8+ years of art design/direction experience
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience
• 3-4 years of supervisory experience
• Proficiency with creative programs/suites
• Advertising or design portfolio
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills

Biolumina’s Values

Open Mind

• Always ask why—of your teammates, your clients, and yourself. And don’t stop there—keep asking questions
• Be respectful of others’ ideas, opinions, and diverse backgrounds
• Be flexible and adaptive to new ways of doing things

Brave Heart

• Speak your mind…and your heart
• Courageously step forward to try something new and help others to do the same
• Be brave enough to defend your opinions—and brave enough to change them

Ready Hands

• Be proactive and push things forward
• Reach out to offer help and raise your hand to ask for help
• Go out of your way to show gratitude

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you

Biolumina

Creative Director – North America

In a nutshell, this is the opportunity to create work at the cutting edge of culture for some of the biggest brands globally across sports, esports and gaming. It’s the chance to join a multi-award winning agency that believe in big ideas and give you the chance to work on world class campaigns seen by millions all over the world.

This one is for a strategic and socially minded brand expert with a real entrepreneurial spirit and the perfect role for a culturally connected and ambitious Creative Director.

Sound good? Here’s a bit more…

The Role

• Conduct creative workshops to collaboratively develop insight driven creative campaigns
• Bring ambitious creative ideas to life
• Present, or oversee presentation of final concepts, inspiring clients to purchase. (Being able to create compelling presentations is a key remit.)
• Be an agency expert in creative market trends, visual communication, and the competitive landscape to inspire everyone in the agency to produce great work
• Supervise a cross-functional team of graphic designers, copywriters, social media experts, photographers/videographers, and project managers in the strategic development of creative campaign messaging and deliverables, based both in the US and in the UK.
• Review and approve art/copy developed by the team, ensuring deliverables that effectively address marketing goals and challenges

Skills

• 5+ years of creative direction in agency or corporate setting
• Passion for youth culture, specifically in gaming, esports, sport and music. Across the mainstream, next gen and counter-culture.
• Several years of experience creating marketing/advertising campaigns from developing vision to overseeing production
• Understanding/experience creating integrated campaigns across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, as well as an understanding of offline and print
• Proven experience with concept development led by strategic insight
• Highly skilled with leading a team of creative talent
• Strong creative vision with an understanding of business objectives
• Inspirational knowledge of creative marketing

This role will be snapped up quickly so apply now to avoid disappointment.

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