Associate Creative Director

Our Opportunity

Your Role

• Help lead the agency in creative ideation and innovative thinking, mentor the creative team to deliver great work through inclusivity and collaboration.
• Work on conceptualizing captivating multi-touch experiences that are not only creative but also align perfectly with our client's unique brands.
• Collaborate closely with the Creative Lead on a given account to ensure their vision is consistently brought to life across all projects.
• Hands-on position where you manage the work and the project team and actively engage in the creative process, bringing ideas to fruition.
• Travel to shows, both domestically and internationally, approximately 15% of responsibilities.
• Responsible for the day-to-day supervision of one to two team members.
• Impactful participant in new business development efforts, including the pitch process, and contribute to the creative and agency culture by inspiring teams.
• Translate clients' brands into thoughtful, compelling, and interactive experiences, and set the highest standards for all creatives to follow.
• Understand all creative disciplines and collaborate with creative leadership to create high-quality, strategic presentations through copywriting, sketches, renders, mock-ups, and presentations.
• Produce and inspire inventive, thoughtful, and on-brand work while taking a hands-on approach to team mentorship.
• Manage team's workload and meet tight deadlines.
• Participate in planning and strategy sessions and lead the project creative design team on assigned projects, overseeing designers' work, and ensuring execution is consistent and of the highest quality.

Your Skills

• Always lead with a solutions-oriented mindset and focus on strategically solving challenges.
• Proven track record of leading successful creative teams and delivering high-impact design solutions for experiential marketing campaigns.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate creative concepts, provide constructive feedback, and inspire teams to achieve excellence.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a deep understanding of brand strategy, consumer behavior, and market trends.
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and Google Suite.
• Always learning new softwares and tracking emerging trends such as AI-based softwares (Firefly, Gemini, etc.).
• Work closely with the Creative Director to develop a project roadmap.
• Manage the design, development and implementation of all event related creative in support of overall defined look and feel and brand objectives.
• Understand the creative team's bandwidth and recommend when additional resources are needed.
• Provide clear creative direction at initiation, and follow through by coaching creative team members (as well as account teams), while monitoring and guiding their efforts, and investing in successful results.
• Create a thoughtful and engaging guest journey for all projects.
• Maintain project budgets and track allocated hours to ensure profitability of the creative team – in partnership with Creative Project Managers and Account Teams.

Your Experience

• Minimum of four-year degree in Design, Advertising, Theater or related creative discipline.
• Minimum 7 years industry experience or related creative process experience combining strategy, content, message with creative deliverables.
• Event and Experience Design expertise desirable.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills required.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire the creative team, while keeping the creative process in alignment with GPJ business goals and objectives.

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 25%.
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed.

Salary Range

• Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

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