Creative Director

Job Title: Senior Creative/Web Specialist – Art Director

Location: Charlotte or Raleigh, NC (Hybrid)

Duration: 36 Months

Note: (2 days/week in office)

Job Description:

• The Senior Creative/Web Specialist Art Director is responsible for concepting, art direction, graphic design as well as presentation design, and presenting brand advertising, product marketing, and customer- and employee-facing communications.
• The specialist partners with copywriters, account managers and digital specialists to meet creative director’s expectations and clients’ objectives within the Client brand.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensures the delivery of creative, effective communications consistent with the company’s brand standards and voice.
• Understands and executes to meet the client’s strategy, core message, target audience and specific goals.
• Produces work that is consistently on-time and within budget.
• Works collaboratively with copywriters, account managers, UX and other communicators
• Delivers materials for a broad spectrum of communications channels, including broadcast, video, animation, radio, audio, digital ads (HTML5), email and web (Sketch), direct mail, print ads, PowerPoint presentations.
• Presents materials to clients; works positively and constructively to resolve issues and make necessary revisions.
• Shows strong follow-through and attention to detail from project initiation through completion and archiving of files.
• Works within established workflow processes
• Provides expertise in effective messaging for various audiences and guidance for applying the company’s style guide and brand voice.
• Maintains or improves skill level in design software and design techniques and methods.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Basic/Required Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience with art direction, graphic, web, mobile, video/broadcast and motion design (animation)
• Strong art direction/design portfolio
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch or Adobe XD, presentation software (e.g., Microsoft Powerpoint, Keynote, Prezi)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with advertising, marketing, corporate or customer-facing materials.
• Recent experience in creating integrated communication campaigns across numerous channels.
• Strong concepting skills.
• Strong presentation skills
• Well organized, capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines concurrently.
• Proven commitment to producing error-free, superior quality work while following client brand guidelines.
• Demonstrated understanding of current communications best practices
• Collaborative, team-oriented and flexible
• Knowledge of various social media channels – Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
• Microsoft SharePoint – document storage and management
• Workamajig – project management and time tracking tool.
• 10+ years’ experience.

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