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Creative Director, Herman Miller
Why join us?
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Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
GENERAL PURPOSE
Establish and champion a clear vision for the brand and how it meets its customers. Align creative efforts for the brand across products, communications and experiences, in all regions and businesses. Input into product category strategies. Guide the selection of design and creative partners. Actively partner with category and product design teams to assure that the brand’s products align with brand vision and essence and deliver future business. Actively partner with interior design and visual merchandising teams to align selling spaces with the brand. Lead brand’s creative teams including art direction and writing; guiding creative work to be brand right. Ongoing communication of brand visual center, seasonal creative direction and regular creative reviews. Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to grow the brand in all the business units that bring it to market.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Establishes and communicates a clear, ownable and actionable brand vision and essence. Coaches product teams, business partners and broader organization on all brand connected design work to ensure alignment and build brand strength.
- Owns regular creative direction to product and marketing teams, informing business, marketing and communications strategies.
- Guides selection of design partners and creative collaborators. Selects or approves design talent or approach for new products.
- Partners with product design to assure creative content of design briefs aligns with brand.
- Influences product design execution at key milestones to assure brand alignment.
- Maintain knowledge of global design talent, both established and emerging, constantly seeking potential partners for the brand.
- Partners with product leadership to inform product priorities and strategies.
- Partners with marketing leadership to Inform brand strategies, priorities and campaigns.
- Act as link between business units, categories, marketing and brand via creative reviews; assure that all creative initiatives are optimally aligned with brand essence.
- Champions efforts to achieve cohesiveness and consistency of creative work across product design and development, communications, and customer experience.
- Maintains awareness of trends that broadly influence the contract and residential furnishings industries.
- Serves as design voice for the brand to field sales, dealers, customers and media.
- Works collaboratively with general management, commercial leadership, sales, marketing and merchandising teams to define long term product strategy and priorities for the broader MillerKnoll collective of brands and businesses.
- Partners with Creative Directors and design leaders across the organization to build best practices, clarify unique brand propositions and to build the overall strength of the group.
Qualifications :
Who We Hire?
Simply put, we hire everyone. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
A starting compensation range for this role is $277,900.00 - $360,025.00. Relevant salary considerations will include candidate qualifications and experience, other business / organizational needs and market factors. You may also be eligible to receive a geographic premium, annual discretionary incentive and equity awards which are subject to the rules governing these programs. The company offers a full spectrum of benefits including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Vacation and Parental Leave), Holidays, 401(k), and Short / Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our associates.
MillerKnoll is a collective of design brands coming together to remake modern for the 21st century.
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Salary : $277,900 - $360,025
