Associate Creative Director, Art, Future Opportunities

Critical Mass; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital marketing seeks an Associate Creative Director, Art to lead impactful marketing initiatives and manage a talented creative team. The position requires a combination of strong visual design skills and strategic thinking, along with 7+ years of relevant experience. This is an opportunity to foster team growth and deliver innovative solutions in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in design, marketing, or communications with a strong portfolio.
• Solid understanding of creative versus commercial reality.
• Passion for design and collaborative spirit.

Responsibilities

• Lead major marketing initiatives with a large creative team.
• Drive creative strategies and client communications.
• Develop innovative proposals to grow accounts and new business.

Skills

Creative Thinking

Interpersonal Skills

Visual Design

Experience Design

Brand Development

Strategic Thinking

Client Relations

Team Leadership

Job description

Please note, you are not applying to an active job opening. We are always striving to build our network of talent and our needs are constantly changing. You will be added to our network of talent, and we will share relevant opportunities with you as they arise.

As an Associate Creative Director, Art, you couple a strong creative voice with strategic thinking to lead major marketing initiatives. Balancing creative thinking with interpersonal skills, you develop solid client relations by clearly communicating and justifying concepts. Visual design is your bread and butter—but you’ve also got strong working knowledge of experience design, brand development, interactive commerce, and creative processes, which are essential in your role.You’re looking to hone your management skills directing the collaborative efforts of a large creative team.

And the environment you build for your team fosters professional growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Most importantly, you embody and embrace our values—to be honest, inspired, drive, passionate and real—in everything you do.

You will:

• Drive the strategies that address customer needs and business goals across digital channels.
• Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen both the agency brand and market leadership position.
• Develop & deliver innovative proposals to capture both account growth and new business opportunities.
• Promote continuous improvement and accountability by driving Creative discipline and operational excellence and lending industry vertical expertise.
• Perform strategic account planning with senior management in vertical marketing groups.
• Conceive and create experience design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives.
• Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project stakeholders.
• Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams, including all creative disciplines, technology, planning, account and program managers, partners, clients and more.
• Provide regular team leadership and constructive feedback on all accounts.
• Develop, monitor, and modify the business unit creative department staffing strategies and plans, including team composition, performance, skills, training, and mentoring.
• Develop, implement, and monitor quality standards across all creative artifacts and deliverables.
• Continuously improve Creative methods, problem solving models, and best practices.
• Proactively manage the success of production scope, schedules, and budgets.
• Engage and inform practice leads from media, technology, marketing science, usability, and quality assurance to maximize results and ensure satisfaction.
• Support and lead Human Resource initiatives with a focus on performance management.
• Understand, embrace, and communicate corporate mission and values.

You have:

• 7+ years design, marketing, or communications interactive work and art direction experience.
• Strong design portfolio.
• Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
• Solid understanding and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality.

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.comandus.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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