Executive Creative Director
Company: Shaker
Location: Oak Park
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
The Executive Creative Director has experience leading and
driving multiple large-scale projects with a strong understanding
of how creative can influence and drive business results. This role
requires strong presentation skills, business acumen and the
ability to influence both up and down the organization. In close
collaboration with the project management team, the Executive
Creative Director will influence workflows to ensure efficient and
acceptable delivery. As the leader of our creative service team,
the Executive Creative Director oversees the research and creative
teams and is ultimately responsible for the creative vision and
output of the team. This person supports the team's professional
growth and ensures the best possible work for our clients. This
role works in seamless concert with a wide range of teams across
the organization, including client service, media, tech and digital
to ensure alignment on multiple factors, including innovative
solutions, budgets, deliverables and tech stack, among others.
LEADERSHIP:
- Oversees creative team
- Develops Shaker's creative vision on projects and, in
coordination with the Creative Director, nurtures and coaches
creative talents and teams, to ensure consistent delivery of
exceptional work
- Builds a culture of creativity, comradery, and accountability,
helping to bring out the best of creatives at all levels CREATIVE
STRATEGY:
- Sets creative strategy and oversees all phases of creative
process to ensure successful completion and execution of client
deliverables
- In collaboration with the Creative Directors, the ECG will
build the strategic foundation of the department ensuring the work
is founded in unique and relevant insights and programmed for
various platforms and audiences
- Identifies opportunities to take smart risks and successfully
propel exceptional and innovative ideas forward to execution
- Leads the integration the research team, uncovering insights to
fuel creative excellence
- Partners with clients and internal stakeholders to understand
client objectives and business, ensuring work is on brief and on
brand
- Expertly leads new business presentations showcasing strong,
clear delivery and credibility with the expertise of uncovering the
prospects gaps and confidently addressing how Shaker can
address
- Collaborates with account leads and integrated teams to oversee
projects to ensure high-quality delivery
- Exhibits a strong EQ to understand dynamics and capture the
attention of C-suite executives
- Speak confidently with client or prospect Marketing teams and
can "talk shop" to alleviate concerns and address potential
barriers (i.e. the complexity of speaking to consumers vs
candidates
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and
creative best practices to ensure the agency remains at the
forefront of recruitment marketing. All your information will be
kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. This role requires
both creative, client service, technical and interpersonal skills.
The Executive Creative Director (ECD) has big ideas and is adept at
implementing them. The ECD has the ability to clearly energize the
team to bring creative ideas to life, help the team to articulate
the rationale and inspire the team with the confidence to express
them to the client. This person for this role must be cool under
pressure, a leader by example, deadline oriented and possess the
ability to influence at all levels. The Executive Creative Director
must have the following characteristics:
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a
fast-paced environment
- Proven client service experience and deep understanding of
client-centric demands
- Experience building and growing teams - and for inspiring,
coaching and leading people leaders
- Track record of winning new business and effectively presenting
to clients and prospects
- Inspiring groundbreaking multi-channel work
- Experience targeting a variety of audience segments
- Strong track record of collaborating with creative and client
service teams
- Ability to successfully work within a matrixed environment
Creative, visionary and big idea advocate
- Strategic and critical thinker Analytical and insightful,
attention to detail
- Flexible yet able to stay on point
- Expert communicator to internal and external stakeholders
- Strong, decisive decision maker
- Excellent change manager
- Able to handle high volume/multiple high-pressure deadlines The
Executive Creative Director must have well rounded experience,
having touched all pieces of the creative process in some way over
time. We are seeking someone with the following experience:
- Experienced: A minimum of 12 years' agency leadership
experience, managing, training, and coaching multiple team members
at an agency including: copywriters, designers, web designers and
web developers
- Strategic Thinker:Demonstration of high-caliber creative where
you specifically led the transformation of strategic thinking into
best-in-class creative work
- Proven Leader:Coach and mentor with experience providing
actionable feedback and managing underperformers
- Effective Communicator:Able to clearly articulate and defend
ideas, provide clear and comprehensive feedback, lead the team,
liaise with client services, clients and project management team to
achieve one shared goal
- Presenter: Must effectively and confidently pitch ideas to
clients, expand client relationships and wow new business
prospects, focusing on the work, as well as the strategy and
insights that root the delivery
- Change Manager:Embrace a world where change is frequent and
uncertain
- Conflict Negotiator:Able to maintain focus and handle conflict
situations effectively and professionally
- Technical Expert:Drive a modern creative environment
- Visionary:Promote a culture of collaboration & innovation and
reshape the norms in recruitment marketing and the candidate
experience
- Team Builder: Ability to integrate multiple teams (from
research to designers) to create cohesion and reinforce how all are
critical to creating the best possible work
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Keywords: Shaker, Evanston , Executive Creative Director, Advertising , Oak Park, Illinois
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