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Creative Lead

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Responsibilities Define and drive the overall creative for brand, marketing, and product campaigns. Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary creative team, providing clear feedback and direction throughout the creative process. Lead cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, primarily in Europe and North America. Actively contribute hands-on creative work while leading the team, ensuring the highest quality across concepts, design, and final execution. Work closely with marketing, product, and leadership teams to translate business objectives into strong creative concepts. Oversee projects from initial brief through final delivery, ensuring quality, consistency, and attention to detail. Develop creative concepts for campaigns across digital, social, video, and other marketing channels. Work with and evolve our existing brand identity, creative systems, and visual guidelines while ensuring consistency across all outputs. Review and approve creative work, helping elevate ideas through constructive feedback rather than simply signing off on deliverables. Balance creative ambition with timelines, budgets, and business priorities. Help establish creative processes and workflows that enable the team to work efficiently without compromising quality. Stay informed on design, branding, and content trends, bringing new ideas and perspectives to the team. Requirements 6+ years of experience in creative leadership, with a strong foundation in design and experience across branding, advertising, or digital marketing. A portfolio that demonstrates strategic design thinking, creative excellence, and successful execution across multiple channels. Consultancy mindset; you're a trusted client partner. Experience leading and mentoring creative teams in a collaborative environment. Strong understanding of branding, elevated visual communication, storytelling, and content strategy. Ability to give clear, constructive feedback that helps people produce stronger work. Excellent presentation and communication skills, with confidence presenting ideas to stakeholders. Comfortable managing multiple projects and balancing creative quality with business objectives. A collaborative mindset and the ability to build strong relationships across departments. Demonstrated skills in relevant software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma); motion skills are a plus. Core Competencies Demonstrates expertise in creative leadership, strategic design thinking, and effective project management across branding and digital marketing. Proven ability to mentor teams, provide constructive feedback, and deliver high-quality creative concepts that align with business objectives. #J-18808-Ljbffr Jobtailor

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