Associate Creative Director

Associate Creative Director

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THIS IS A REMOTE OPPORTUNITY IN THE US.

Our Associate Creative Directors (ACD) are rising stars who can own the experiential vision on an account and lead a larger group of creatives to bring brands to life through strategic, memorable experiences. If bringing the "creative stoke" to Spiro sounds like an opportunity that connects with you, keep reading.

The ACD drives innovation, riffs with diverse groups of creatives, and inspires big idea thinking across multiple mediums and experiential channels. They have strong communication skills, feel comfortable in front of clients, and can collaborate with their extended agency team. Our creative directors are passionate, strategic, conceptual thinkers with a killer book highlighting experiential campaigns and a positive attitude that connects and energizes their teams.

Company Overview

This is Spiro. A strategically-led, creatively-driven, leading global experiential agency. We exist to cultivate powerful brand connections through the channel of experiential. We believe strong global communities are empowered by diversity, inclusion & belonging.

Where data-informed creative meets advanced digital solutions, we boldly go where no experience has gone before. As Spiro•nauts, we are born storytellers & story makers; fearless dreamers of the "what if;" and pioneers of innovation in our craft. Together, we launch brands into their experiential orbit through the power of Brand Gravity.

Learn more about who we are here!

Responsibilities

• Provide creative leadership with clients, influence vision, and align the team behind you to create the motivation and passion which delivers "best in class" creative work on projects in a timely manner.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop the creative process.
• Interface with the creative team, internal account teams, and clients to develop innovative yet intuitive creative solutions that address complex business, marketing, and user needs through a variety of channels.
• Concept and direct leading creative work for major accounts in multiple marketing media and disciplines.
• Oversee the narrative and visual development of the idea in collaboration with clients and team members.
• Manage the creative process for large-scale projects, tight deadlines, and high volume of work with geographically dispersed teams.
• Possess the presence and experience to interface at the executive level, developing and maintaining client relationships.
• Possess strong skills in written and verbal communication, visual presentation, and meeting facilitation in both individual and group settings.
• Generate and present thought leadership on behalf of the agency.
• Maintain an effective working relationship with all company departments, with particular emphasis on a team approach to projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in an idea-driven role at a creative agency.
• Expert knowledge of the principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, event, and experience design, press upfronts, product launches, and sales techniques.
• Experience with the development of creative and content management and speaker presentation delivery techniques.
• Understanding of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation
• Possess strong conceptual skills and a high-level sense of design, layout and typography; a broad thinker who can offer a variety of design solutions.
• Accomplished interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Excellent customer and inter-company relationship skills.
• Proven experience in managing small and large creative projects from inception to project closeout, including follow-up methodology.
• Established ability to manage the everyday details of a project while focusing on the highest quality result.
• Strong ability to work under pressure.
• Able to work flexible hours and overtime, as needed.
• Required to travel for client meetings, site visits, and presentations.

How to Measure Success

• By 30 days incumbent should understand team dynamics and perform basic job functions independently
• By 60 days incumbent should be self-reliant on basic job functions and begin executing more complex tasks
• By 90 days, incumbent should have ownership over specific projects

Benefits

• Remote Environment
• Full Benefits Package
• 401K Vesting Immediately
• Psychological Safety
• Diversity, Inclusivity and Belonging Culture
• Employee Led Resource Groups
• Spiro•YOU Professional Development & Learning Programs
• Employee Events

Our Process

Our interview process is hand crafted to our roles. In general, you can expect to have an initial phone interview with our talent acquisition team and thereafter video interviews with team members and your future manager. We welcome candidates to view our social medial channels and website to extend the conversation beyond the responsibilities of the role. Once you have completed the interview process, we conduct a criminal background check, where applicable by law.

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