Associate Creative Director, Art

Taylor is looking for an ambitious Associate Creative Director, Art to provide creative support for some of the world's leading brands.

For you, “diversity” isn’t just a buzzword or challenge, but rather an opportunity and school of thought you use to embrace creativity and collaboration in all that you do.

Primary Responsibilities (The What)

Creative Thought Leadership

• Uses deep understanding of client’s business, brand, industry, and target consumers to develop integrated, multi-channel campaigns that meet client business needs and generate measurable results
• Remains current on marketing, design, technology, language, and cultural trends, and infuses this knowledge into all creative work
• Actively participates in the strategic account planning process, including reviewing past results and applying learnings
• Proactively partners with Account and Strategy teams to provide ongoing strategic and creative counsel to mid-level clients, including looking for opportunities to sell in incremental ideas

Communication & Storytelling

• Begins to demonstrate leadership presence through thoughtful, polished, persuasive communication across all mediums, internally and externally
• Listens well, building and maintaining relationships internally and externally through respect, responsiveness, and open dialogue
• Uses strong understanding of the agency's business model, structure, and offerings to bring forward new ideas for how Taylor can meet clients' business needs
• Effectively manages internal and client communications, including selling in creative ideas, setting appropriate expectations, and responding to questions or concerns
• Effectively leads meetings and delivers formal presentations (client and internal)
• Contributes positively to Taylor's brand presence by engaging in social channels, thought leadership pieces, case studies, and other content and communications

Concepting

• Leads creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
• Proactively brings in and partners with others to ensure diversity of thought, integration, and collaboration across Taylor disciplines
• Helps others to refine ideas into fully integrated program concepts that drive business impact and deliver against defined objectives
• Leads multiple workstreams/programs simultaneously, ensuring that each team member understands their individual role expectations and how they fit together as part of the broader strategy

Execution / Making

• Provides oversight and ownership of all creative work for assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, production, and analytics to develop creative that drives business impact
• Provides clear, objective critiques of creative/design work in progress, collaborating with junior team members to evolve and elevate their work
• Art Direction: Creates, and/or guides others to create, campaign look and feels, storyboards, comps, and other materials for presentations and final execution
• Copywriting:  Writes, and/or guides others to write, creative platforms, manifestos, digital/social copy, and other copy for presentations and final execution
• Regularly attends shoots, events, edits, etc., actively collaborating with the team to ensure flawless execution

Business Acumen

• Completes timesheets accurately and in a timely manner, and ensures that junior team members do the same
• Begins to collaborate with account teams and creative leadership on the scoping, budgeting, and staff planning process for assigned projects
• Proactively flags and escalates any issues, collaborating with account teams and creative leadership to resolve issues accordingly

People Management

• Oversees the work of junior team members on specific client accounts and/or projects, delegating well and providing training, guidance, and feedback to ensure their work meets agency and client performance standards
• Gives appropriate recognition and actively works to motivate and inspire others
• Models diversity of thought, and recognizes others who do the same
• May serve as a primary/formal manager to one or more junior team members, providing ongoing coaching, performance management, and career development
• Escalates thorough performance feedback for direct reports up to senior leadership, championing strong performance and proactively addressing low performance
•  Participates in interviewing and selecting junior talent for the agency

Taylor Values (The How)

Respecting What's Right: makes ethical choices and treats others with respect by embracing diversity of backgrounds and thought

Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm: takes initiative and doesn't wait to be tapped. Leads from wherever they are and delivers irreplaceable value

Committed to Curiosity: open-minded and learns from all sources. Experiments and creates meaning in uncertainty

Pride In Partnership: uses empathy to build trusting relationships and ensure effective communication. Is open to others' ideas and viewpoints

Inspired Innovation: is imaginative with big dreams and goals. Invents and iterates to shape hearts, minds, and culture for the better

About Taylor

We are a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world's leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem. 

Compensation

$140,000/yr