Creative Director

About the Creative Director position:

Are you a strategic thinker who excels at developing creative solutions for some of the world’s most influential companies and organizations? If so, VIVA Creative is looking to meet you!

VIVA is currently seeking an experienced Creative Director to collaborate alongside our stellar creative team, working with Fortune 500 clients to shape and implement out of the box content for large scale events, as well as high-profile strategic communications and marketing campaigns.

This position will work from our Rockville, MD office and require travel.

We’re looking for a candidate who:

• Knows how to put pen to paper and speak to audiences with a voice that resonates.
• Is a strategic thinker who can translate complex client challenges into impactful content solutions that move the needle forward for companies and their audiences.
• Enjoys the process of creative collaboration and can effectively incorporate and engage with constructive feedback.
• Has a solid Creative Strategy toolbox that includes cutting edge ideas, technologies, design thinking, speech and script writing, and a solid business acumen.
• Most of all, if you feel a huge intrinsic reward by seeing your ideas come to life while creating positive outcomes for clients, this could be the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Inspire deep (and fun!) cross-functional relationships that ultimately build stronger creatives delivering extraordinary work for clients.
• Support the development of structured approaches to assess complex and high priority strategic initiatives with cross functional stakeholders.
• Responsible for managing the complex needs of a creative team consisting of creatives, art directors, writers, and content producers.
• Diagnose business challenges, articulating the team’s role in solving for business and client needs, and then aligning teams to the task.
• Create and define process and procedures to support the creative team and creative needs of the company.
• Responsible for team assignments for a wide variety of projects and accountable for the team’s utilization.
• Motivate the creative team to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions that move the needle forward for clients and their audiences.
• Motivate a large creative team to deliver both quantity and quality of output while maintaining strong morale.
• Management of direct reports, including performance reviews and professional development, compensation decisions, improvement initiatives, and other personnel actions.
• Lead, coach, and mentor direct reports.
• Demonstrates humility in leadership by promoting success of team, finding opportunities for others to be recognized and advanced.
• Scale and drive the internal development and growth of the team.
• Responsible for the creative team’s progress on all projects and proposals.
• Seeks out innovation and examples of greatness throughout the industry and brings it back to the team to grow and improve VIVA’s creatives solutions.
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity of the VIVA brand by ensuring that appropriate VIVA standards are established and monitored. Ensure all creative meets brand guidelines and consistently expresses our unique brand voice. Evolve and expand guidelines when needed.

Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience leading and developing nimble and resourceful creative teams for large scale events and campaigns
• 6 years of team leadership role agency or corporate
• Experienced content creator for large scale events and campaigns.
• Experienced speechwriting and video script writer.
• Minimum of a BA/BS degree in Journalism, English, Communications or equivalent, Masters in marketing a PLUS.

Please include samples/portfolio of your work for the following:

• Video (where you developed the strategy, wrote the script, oversaw the execution)
• Design (where you developed the strategy, the creative approach, etc.)
• Events (where you developed the strategy, the event theme, the creative content, etc.)
• Digital (where you developed the strategy, the creative approach, etc.)