Overview
Creative Director Jobs in Los Angeles, USA at Monks Associates Inc
About the Role
As a Creative Director, you’ll oversee the day-to-day creative functions for a California-based retail account. You’ll be responsible for delivering primarily social media creative that speaks the language of trends and culture fluently, while elevating the conceptual and executional quality of the brand. You will oversee a team of diverse creative capabilities, including traditional art directors and copywriters, as well as content creators, designers, and motion artists.
You will partner with internal cross-disciplinary leads, and be part of building and growing a relationship with your clients through your demonstration of creative problem-solving and executional excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Creative Steward:
First and foremost, you will set the tone and the standard of quality for the brands you work on: - This includes working with the internal brand and strategy team to help set/maintain the tone and vision for the brand.
- This also includes reviewing all the creative work that will ultimately make its way to the client, providing quality control over your team’s output.
- You will ensure that creative projects are delivered on their agreed upon timeline and on budget ensuring commercial success.
- You will lead concept development, with the expectation that you will occasionally need to adopt the mindset of a maker, too.
- You will digest feedback from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring it is actionable for your teams.
- You will oversee nimble projects with art and copy teams, as well as internal filmmakers/content creators and external production partners, ensuring footage captured is of a quality commensurate with the expectation of the agency and the client.
- You will lead projects of a primarily digital and social nature, with the ability to flex into traditional advertising and other digital marketing asks as necessary.
- Client relationship management: while not everyone’s cup of tea, it’s the relationship that builds the trust. As a CD, you’re expected to be comfortable interacting with clients, and owning and growing the relationship.
- Specifically: your POV is critical to making the work better and protecting the integrity of ideas.
- You will be expected to present, sell, and speak to the core of an idea, as well as provide support for the work.
- You will be required to help storytell ideas for clients, internal teams and your own creative teams. Your ability to “clean up the idea” is essential to its impact.
- Talent development, recruitment and retention:
- Participating in and leading hiring decisions on team creative candidates, taking into consideration the department/agency’s needs and growth potential.
- Overseeing, mentoring, and growing your team’s talent.
- Offering a point of view on the team’s composition and structure, including promotions, job openings and overall growth opportunities.
- Fostering an environment of trust, support, and advocacy for your team while maintaining a calm demeanor.
- Modeling the ability to problem-solve in a fast-paced environment, and pivot as necessary without losing sight of quality.
About You
The essentials:
- Must have at least 2 years experience in an Associate Creative Director or equivalent role including concept development and client contact. We are open to people with conceptual copy or art backgrounds, with a preference given to those who have worked in a social-first environment.
- Must have a well-developed creative point of view and the ability to decisively identify strong ideas and executions.
- Must be social-media obsessed. You have deep love and knowledge of trends, platforms, best practices, and the best work happening right now. You should have your finger on the pulse of creative culture, and have a deep bench of reference from all different sources that could help inspire creative avenues.
- Must be LA-based or within a commutable distance.
- Must have fluency in both English and Spanish language, with the ability to concept, write, converse, and present in both languages.
- Must be fluent in creative and productivity tools including generative AI platforms and Google Suite (especially Google Slides).
- Must have production experience with and an…
Title: Creative Director
Company: Monks Associates Inc
Location: Los Angeles, USA
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