Creative Director

Summary

Join Cielo as a Creative Director and accelerate your career by working on creative employer brand campaigns, mentoring junior staff, and delivering high-quality creative work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required or related experience
• Minimum of eight to ten years of professional graphic design experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional expertise with Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, knowing After Effects is a plus)
• Mastered composition techniques (multiple elements and interactive pieces) in producing polished final pieces (i.e., attention to detail)
• Understanding and working knowledge of animations and development of animations for social and websites
• Demonstrated complete understanding of: color theory and color relationships, typography, perspective and space relationships, page composition and grid structures
• Print production process, knowledge of production techniques
• Web design and production of digital elements
• Dynamic presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and reinforce vision of values of the organization as it applies to creative development, output and goals
• Responsible for mentorship and staff development
• Oversees and is able to execute creative projects from concept through execution
• Prepare creative proposals and able to deliver a project on budget and on time
• Present ideas to evolve client’s employer brand identity to match global design trends
• Collaborate with colleagues, vendors and business partners on materials design and execution
• Interact with Copywriters and other Creative Directors to develop creative executions of assigned projects
• Possess solid understanding of the market dynamics of assigned projects
• Work closely with Brand team to schedule and monitor all projects
• Independently manage time to meet deadlines
• People manager with 2 immediate direct reports
• Responsible for creative thought leadership to the organization
• Partners with account service regularly to understand and strategize on client’s objectives
• Advise account service on creative recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex timelines and deliverables and articulate and adapt client creative needs