Manager, Creative and Design

American Airlines; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel perks

Health benefits

Wellness programs

401(k) plan

Job summary

American Airlines in Fort Worth, TX seeks a senior creative leader to guide the art and design teams in delivering high-impact visual experiences across channels. You will shape concept development, storytelling, and brand identity while ensuring outputs are on strategy, on time, and on budget.

You will lead a talented team, collaborate with marketing partners, and stay ahead of industry trends, tools, and regulations to deliver elegant, effective campaigns for a global audience.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience overseeing creative design, production, content marketing, and multimedia.
• Strong leadership and budget management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of art directors and designers.
• Develop integrated campaigns with storytelling.
• Collaborate with brand and marketing partners for consistent tone.
• Oversee creative production budgets and schedules.
• Advance cross-channel visual experiences.

Skills

Art direction

Design leadership

Budget management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Brand development

Multicultural marketing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Video editing software

Job description

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you’ll love this job

• We’re looking for a creative leader with an art direction or design background who is passionate about delivering beautiful and intuitive experiences that drive results. A visual thinker who knows how to tell a great story. If you are passionate about inspiring others to creatively tell their story, then this is a role you will enjoy.
• You’ll lead a team of art directors and designers and collaborate on elevating our visual game. Together with your team, you will create simple, innovative, useful, and elegant cross-channel experiences and oversee the execution of all creative work from concept to completion, ensuring that work is on brand, on strategy, on schedule, and accomplished with excellence. You will be expected to stay endlessly curious and ahead of the trends, technologies, and tools to help the organization deliver the best visual experiences.
• The role is a part of the Creative team within our Commercial organization.

What you’ll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Apply smart thinking to create innovative concepts around integrated campaigns, video storytelling and visual identity.
• Develop and utilize cross-functional business relationships to collaborate on ways to improve the business results.
• Conceptualize breakthrough (brand appropriate) creative that is modern and disruptive with dynamic storytelling.
• Partner and help lead integrated campaign planning with brand and creative marketing partners to ensure stories and tone of voice are consistent.
• Support all internal priorities and initiatives in tandem with the marketing team, amplifying initiatives while cultivating relationships to ensure amplification of company communication priorities.
• Think about visual storytelling holistically and manage content deliverables (e.g., photography, video, storyboards) to execution by collaborating with the key stakeholders.
• Optimize current tools and platforms used for asset creation, delivery, and tracking.
• Manage and report creative production budget, and content budget.

All you’ll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Communications, Marketing, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in overseeing the creative design and production, content marketing, web and video communications

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience leading, developing teams and budget management

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Organized, accountable, and action-oriented
• Strong attention to detail, with a creative eye to deliver what emotionally resonates with the audience
• Agile and able to handle multiple projects under tight deadlines
• Excellent organization and project management skills are required
• Experienced in multicultural marketing, brand development, and working in a highly regulated industry

What you’ll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world. Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.