Creative Director

VSA’s Design Practice is responsible for bringing our clients’ stories, visions and voices to life. At the intersection of Strategy and Digital, we make ideas tangible and meaningful for the audiences that matter, in a cross-platform, media-agnostic way.

VSA is seeking a visionary Creative Director to lead our digital campaign efforts. As an expert in digital human interaction, you will have a passion for designing and creating the next generation of digital experiences that transform interactions, elevate understanding, and enhance value for our clients and their customers. This role will help introduce and champion the next level of our design practice and involve innovative technologies such as AI, MR, VR and W3, etc.

The Creative Director will achieve and maintain a high quality level for all work produced for assigned accounts. He/she will also be responsible for the overall growth and success of a team of designers. The Creative Director will contribute to the growth of accounts and to opportunities for future accounts. He/she will embrace and support VSA’s policies and culture and will have the personal goal of producing the best quality work at all times.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will:

• Lead campaigns for a dynamic team responsible for concepting, designing, and activating cutting-edge digital experiences, design systems, and interfaces.
• Define Digital Campaign Design service capability, evaluating and responding to client requests, developing project plans, prototyping, and guiding the creation of compelling experiences that balance user intent, client needs, and project performance.
• Establish overall direction for client programs and projects, synthesize and translate creative briefs to the team, orchestrate all creative aspects, and coordinate all stakeholders.
• Contribute to new business development efforts, including pitches, RFP responses, and relevant sections of statements of work.
• Introduce new technologies such as AI, MR, VR, W3, etc to our offerings
• Ensure and maintain a consistent, high-quality level of work for all assigned accounts.
• Collaborate directly with clients to develop programmatic solutions.
• Lead the digital work of multiple engagements within p
• Provide project scopes by deciding on appropriate interaction activities, deliverables, resource hours, and timing.

REQUIREMENTS

• Ensure and maintain a consistent, high quality level of work for all assigned accounts.
• Communicate account knowledge with the team, so they understand and articulate brands according to established guidelines and philosophies.
• Establish overall art direction for client programs and projects, synthesize and translates creative briefs to the team, orchestrate all creative aspects, and coordinate all constituents.
• Represent Design in new business meetings; understand and articulate VSA's Design capabilities.
• Present to clients and to internal teams to run productive design meetings.
• Work closely with Project Managers and Client Engagement leads to scope projects accurately and to establish project plans.
• Work with Discipline Leads to apply and implement agreed-upon processes among Practice.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams on multiple projects, ensuring that quality is high, milestones are met, and the team is appropriately utilized.
• Identify and address inefficiencies among team and Practice proactively.
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QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in Design.
• 3+ years of experience effectively leading a team.
• Experience consulting to large B2B clients.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative suite.
• Basic knowledge of interactive design and ability to translate design from print to digital in concept phase. Full versatility in both print/interactive design is a plus.
• An innovative mindset, interest and some experience in new technologies such as AI, MR, VR, W3, etc
• A passion for designing and creating the next generation of digital experiences that transform interactions, elevate understanding, and enhance value for our clients and their customers
• Superior verbal and written communication skills to engage, persuade, and motivate clients, team members, and peers and to inspire collaboration.
• A commitment to high quality work and to positive and productive relationships with all - clients, team members, peers, managers, etc.
• Skills in complex problem solving, judgment, critical thinking and decision-making.

This is a hybrid role, open to applicants residing in Chicago, IL or New York, NY.