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Associate Creative Director

Description

We are in search of an outstanding Associate Creative Director.

You can conceive extraordinary ideas in your sleep, and can just as easily inspire your team to create them. You understand the whole picture. That having the ideas is only one fraction of the process. And steering your team, client, vendors through the development and delivery phases right up to final execution is every bit as important.

You are affable, passionate and extremely good at forging relationships. You can work with your Creative Director, Account Managers, Producers to achieve the best results, and clients trust and seek out your expertise.

You are comfortable across multiple consumer channels but especially dangerous at live experiential, digital and social marketing.

If you’ve been nodding your head so far, then please get in touch.

You can spot a great creative idea from even the roughest sketch on the most coffee-stained post-it note, and you understand how to nurture that idea and make make it great.
You have a good idea what makes the perfect brief. So you’ll be perfect to help raise standards of Creative Brief writing.
Ideas that push the envelope should push your presentation skills. A winning combination of confidence and intelligence will help you sell great work internally and to clients.
You are a quality-control freak, and you pass this on to the rest of your team so that they embrace the same seek-and-destroy mentality towards mistakes.
You understand the landscape for client’s business/sector as well as the industry contexts for their investments as well as their brand values, direction and big picture objectives.
You monitor ongoing creative trends within sports, entertainment, lifestyle and in culture, to offer relevant creative recommendations.
You maintain positive relationships with clients to encourage new creative opportunities.
From time to time, you may take on specialized roles or projects to assist the team such as working directly with third party vendors or partner agencies to execute client programs.
You are a champion of the collaborative approach. Help the agency work more closely with the client and encourage your team to build relationships with account handlers.

Requirements

8+ years relevant experience with minimum 2 years of direct experience in experiential, social and digital channels.
Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills.
Possess exceptional communication skills, both orally and in writing.
Superior interpersonal skills and ability to create a rapport with people.
Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
Must be able to multi-task and be flexible enough to react under stressful circumstances.
Prior experience and/or knowledge in sports, music, and entertainment are beneficial.
Proficiency with Adobe Creative suite, PowerPoint, Keynote.
Wasserman Media Group is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education and experience.
Base salary range: $105,000 - $150,000 plus bonus potential. Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc. The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each hire.