Creative Lead

We are looking for a creative head designer who is able to interpret business requirements and client briefs quickly and translate them into elegant creative solutions. Often working to tight deadlines while juggling multiple projects, the creative head must be skilled. The creative head designer must be exceptional at pitching creative concepts to clients and company stakeholders as well as communicating ideas and creating concepts for other team members.

Responsibilities

1. Distill abstract business concepts and client needs into refined elegant creative solutions.
2. Take responsibility for the creative vision and the standard of output across team members who work under them.
3. Pitch ideas confidently and present their creative vision clearly to clients as well as communicate in the same manner to members of their creative team.
4. Have strong supervisory people management and leadership skills in order to lead and inspire, hire, develop, and oversee their creative team.
5. Ensure that all of the organization's or clients' creative output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand.
6. Lead multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines.
7. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
8. Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.

Requirements

1. A fine arts degree (preferred) or an undergraduate degree in graphic design, visual communication, typography, or a related subject, or equivalent professional experience.
2. Five or more years of creative direction experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience creatively directing complex solutions for digital products.
3. Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and determine a creative vision that matches client briefs.
4. Excellent interpersonal skills to clearly and effectively communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, internal teams, and clients.
5. Ability to work effectively in a team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
6. Extensive supervisory experience (including leadership, teambuilding, and delegation) leading and managing a creative team.
7. A solid grasp of art history, design history, photography, and the visual arts, pop culture, and counterculture; fluency in current technology and a deep understanding of the zeitgeist of social tastes and current affairs.
8. Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
9. Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.