Creative Director

Who We Are

At GO Media we bring big agency experience matched with the flexibility, attention, and outside the box thinking of a boutique shop, all while never sacrificing quality and always turning out compelling content and creative. From paid advertising and content marketing to website development and graphic design, we're the best source for effective digital marketing strategies. Utilizing our comprehensive targeting and eye-catching graphics, we always deliver quality results and brand exposure for our clients.

Position Summary

The Creative Director is a charismatic visionary who works with internal agency teams and external client stakeholders to identify, formulate, and pursue paths toward business objectives. This person is a player/coach who produces outputs and develops best-in-class design teams to envision, understand, and execute creative solutions that effectively respond to clients' business needs and goals. They are passionate about delivering seamless and superior creative work to GO Media's clients.

Essential Functions & Outputs

• Define GO Media's creative approach, develop processes, systems, and methodologies to support client success. This CD leads the process, conducts discovery meetings and guides creative workshops.
• For the creative team, be the beacon of understanding of the client's business, brand, product, and customers as related to creative output. This includes conducting discovery meetings with clients, preparing relevant questions, providing analysis from the creative point of view including the identification opportunities to be pursued, and being part of the strategy team
• Serve as the lead/overseer in the conception, design, and creation phases of creative outputs
• Produce graphic design outputs as needed and aligned to clients' objectives
• Earn the position of being the arbiter of what is good, right, and final to show the client
• Manage growth of creative team members through performance evaluations, coaching, teaching, and championing personal educational opportunities to be pursued by team members
• Be part of the company's consensus building with clients. This is executed in the preparation for the presentation, and during the presentation, as well. Being able to successfully sell ideas is a critical skill
• Provide clear creative direction and helpful feedback in order to improve creative processes, as well as to keep work on budget and on schedule
• Continually inspire teams to generate new ideas and evolve existing programs
• Deploy resources in the most efficient way possible and identify freelance and permanent recruitment needs
• Own and oversee creative quality assurance processes
  
  
  

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in business-focused creative direction, either in-house or agency, in an advertising or marketing capacity
• An inherent belief system about how creative solves business problems, and the existing tools and charisma to bring that to life
• Proven ability to lead complex creative projects by maximizing the productivity of creative teams
• Hands-on experience with traditional and interactive communications, including print design, website design, online advertising, and email marketing
• Excellent internal and external communication skills with proven business acumen
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously and work cross-functionally
• A strong working knowledge of interaction design, user-centered experience design, brand development, digital marketing and the creative best practices
• Proficiency in using Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office applications
• An extraordinarily high attention to detail
• Flexible, innovative, and committed to the successful completion of assignments
• Professionally active and networker - leader in the creative space
  
  
  

Benefits

Schedule:

Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5pm

Benefits:

• Health care, dental, and vision
• 401k
• Travel opportunities
• Paid Time Off
• Leadership and mentoring from the industries top experts
• Growth opportunities