What are the responsibilities and job description for the New Fitzco is hiring: Executive Creative Director in Atlanta position at New Fitzco?
Fitzco exists to discover brands' inherent goodness and overcome the obstacles in their way. This process of harnessing what matters and converting it to what moves people is what we call Unleashing Brand Energy.
We do it every day with partners like French's, Cholula, Welch's, Checkers & Rally's, Optum, MedExpress and SYLVANIA.
Founded in 1983 and independent since 2020, Fitzco can reinvent and renew from a position of stability, strength and freedom. The right candidate will fit right into our high-expectation, high-performing, creative and supportive culture.
Executive Creative Director
As the Executive Creative Director (ECD) you are a dynamic agency leader who drives the creative vision across multiple teams to create and produce award winning solutions. As the ECD, you can elevate the work developed by the creative team while also integrating across multiple disciplines.
You still create famous work yourself, which is expected and needed, but the real rewards come from helping your teams develop their skills and their ideas, which you make clearer, stronger, better, and especially, more fun.
You have the kind of relationship with the client where they could call you, or vice versa. You have an amazingly positive attitude and find ways to make famous creative even in tough situations.
When it comes to production, you are a pro who can handle shoots and edits. You know how to involve the head of Creative and incorporate feedback. Everyone wants you on their business, and less senior people seek out your advice. You're the ultimate team player with coworkers and clients.
Responsibilities
- Inspire all levels of creative leadership within the agency
- Provide high-level concept guidance to optimize creative work
- Build, create and maintain culture across the creative department and agency at large.
- Present and deliver concepts and deliverables to existing and prospective clients
- Foster ongoing improvements in creative processes and methodologies
- Ensure creative objectives and approaches align with both agency and client goals
- Collaborate with the Head of Creative on staffing plans and overall reporting structure for the team
- Serve as the creative lead on several accounts, as well as IAT co-lead on main CPG client, creating / directing culturally relevant, industry-recognized work that solves clients' business problems.
- Manage and direct creative assigned to teams under your supervision.
- Collaborate regularly with strategy, account and media to create smart integrated thinking.
- Mentor and manage writers / art directors on all assigned accounts.
- Curate and collaborate with creative vendors / production partners.
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Fitzco is an equal opportunity employer - celebrating, supporting and thriving on diversity for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our work.