Executive Director, Creative

12+ years of proven track record of leadership in multi-million dollar digital marketing organizations.

Demonstrates excellent leadership, strategic vision, and creative inspiration to foster a cohesive and motivated team from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.

Strong knowledge of visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, brand development, and the creative process.

Strong understanding of performance media and the iterative process to take learnings and apply them to the creative process.

A love for typography, interaction, traditional graphic design, and technology.

Strong skills in modern design and prototyping tools.

We are a collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment that fosters personal and company growth and has fun doing it. Here is a snapshot of our  benefits package:

Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage

401k plan, plus matching

PTO

Paid Company Holidays

Parental Leave

The role of Executive Director, Creative is an integral part of DEPT® leadership and provides oversight of all areas of the DEPT®’s creative work for an industry-leading AI client to ensure that large-scale creative solutions are developed and meet and even exceed the client's needs. You are not only a master of the creative and design process, including a strong understanding of performance media, but also of short and long-term planning, the setting of goals, developing and driving the company’s creative vision, and evolving and improving the company’s design aesthetic for an industry-leading AI client. This also involves ensuring that the organization’s talent is in place and performing at a level that will continue to improve and grow the business. You are leadership-focused, detail-oriented, excellent at multitasking, hyper-focused on efficiency, and eager to implement change and make things come to life.

This special someone will regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment and will lead the company's creative and design teams in the development of digital experiences, e-commerce, and content for an industry-leading AI client, as well as lifestyle and technology categories, to create solutions that deeply connect with people. You love positioning brands to matter in culture, and you possess a strong design intuition, expertise in user experiences across the web, and strong strategic thinking skills. You will work closely with others on the leadership team to develop and implement the overall strategy for the organization to ensure the continued health of the company. You strive to assist all parts of the organization in making good business decisions, and you take pride in the success of the company and its employees. You will be dealing with multiple personality types, and need to be able to adapt based on the person you are working with and communicating with.

In your role, you will report to the SVP Creative, who drives the overall strategy and direction for the company. You will support the strategic goals of the company by focusing on and assisting with meeting the short and long-term objectives of the organization.

As part of the DEPT®’s embedded client leadership team, assist in formulating the company’s future direction for an industry-leading AI client, strategy, vision, and overall business plan.

Directly supervise the Creative team across the organization and work to develop them to ensure a high level of performance.