Summary
Tierney Creative Directors are big idea people, skilled artists, and emerging leaders.
We’re brave in our thinking, agile in our approach, and embrace any opportunity.
We create and inspire tasteful works of art that make an impact on consumers and culture.
We present with confidence and sell the work before the work is shown.
We lead and mentor green creatives, helping them grow and thrive.
We support the ECD’s vision of delivering elevated creative at every turn.
We have our finger on the pulse of emerging trends.
We have the client’s trust and respect.
We lock arms with our copywriting and content studio counterparts to create things we can all be proud of.
We’re committed to our craft, our personal growth, and our teammates.
Qualifications
- 8+ years experience as an advertising Creative Director (Art Director) or an Associate Creative Director (Art Director) ready for the next level of your career. Client/in-house experience also welcome.
- Embody the highest standard of excellence in graphic design and art direction; Must have relevant, trend-forward and tasteful design styles (plural) and aesthetics.
- College-smollege. If you have a killer digital portfolio, a positive attitude, and an unwavering work ethic, you’re perfect. Bonus points for a certificate in art direction or design from a portfolio or art school, but not mandatory. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CURRENT DIGITAL PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVE ADVERTISING, YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
- Ability to manage teams of writers and art directors, designers, editors, and animators, to ensure the work meets our high standards of excellence
- Concept big ideas that can be deployed across all channels, and even channels that might not be on the brief
- Must be self-driven to grow as a designer and constantly push your art direction skill set
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; Strong, persuasive presentation chops
- Proficiency in industry standard design software and tools including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Microsoft Suite
- Ability to prioritize and manage workloads (yours and your direct reports), adhering to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
General Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day creative output on our largest entertainment client, as well as 1-2 additional clients.
- Oversee creative team(s) on 1-3 client accounts; serves as main creative contact and manages mid- to senior-level client creative relationships
- Jumps in as needed on concepting, art direction, design and RFPs; Helps ECD own the development of case studies, high profile creative/campaigns, pitches, award entries, etc.
- Sets the bar on impeccable design and art direction; Pushes teams to break molds and shatter conventional thinking
- Collaborates and works closely with account management and strategy to ensure that the brief sets the creative team up for success.
- Builds and maintains strong client relationships and work to deepen their knowledge of what strong/elevated strategic creative can do for their business
- Strong presentation skills, storytelling capabilities, and ability to tie business and creative strategy tightly to creative in order to sell in creative to clients
- Generates original ideas and visual executions that are both exciting and beautiful
- Advances the overall quality of creative thinking both within the department and on cross-disciplinary teams and new business efforts
- Maintains quality control through all phases of execution
- Creative directs video content, from concept through execution
- Leads and participates in creative brainstorms with cross-functional teams and other agency teams
- Understands the client’s products and business and be a knowledgeable resource for other account team members
- Manages, inspires, and motivates less-experienced art directors, designers and writers
- Communicates with creative team members with respect to deadlines, revisions, quality control and workload, as well as other practice areas as needed
Agency Philosophy
- Our agency philosophy is rooted in how we work. We do what other agencies do, but it’s how we do it that makes us the best partner.
- Think in solutions, not problems. Roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to achieve the common goal.
- Sweat the small stuff. Dig into the details. Understand the client’s business or challenge as well as they do so you can be a trusted partner.
- Remember relationships matter. Relationships are a tool that can lead to growth – for you and for the agency. Actively listen and put effort into your relationships to build trust, find mutual ground, and create better connections.
- Challenge creativity and data to coexist. We live in a data-driven world, but that doesn’t mean we sacrifice creativity. The marriage of creativity and data drives consumer behavior and fuels smart solutions and results for our client partners.
- Have fun. Communications is about connecting – we spend our days telling stories, being creative and occasionally racing towards impossible deadlines. All the while, we share smiles and let music and laughs flow. Together.
Why Tierney?
- Professional Development (annual performance reviews, training and development opportunities, mentoring, leadership coaching, etc.).
- A strong, vibrant, and growing commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across all aspects of the agency, our people, our culture, our commitment to vendors and clients, and to our community. Read more about our commitment in our Pledge and Actions for Change.
- Competitive, equitable salaries reviewed annually to ensure equity in market.
- Competitive, company and employee sponsored benefits, including: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k (company matched 50% of first 6%), PTO (vacation/sick time) allowance, generous leave policy, 10-11 paid company holidays, Family Building Benefits (adoption, surrogacy benefit), tuition reimbursement and much more.
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Job Responsibilities
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