Associate creative director job description

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Gupta Media was founded 20 years ago on the idea that advertising could create huge leverage in our client's business. Our early work was focused on the entertainment industry, specifically live events (Boston Calling, among others) and recorded music (Sony Music, Universal Music & Disney are all clients). More recently, we have dramatically grown our work with big brands (Amazon, Fender) and cult/challenger brands (Island Creek Oysters, Walden Local). We have a global client base with a growing local roster across B2B and B2C brands across campaign, content and branding assignments.

As an Associate Creative Director with our growing creative team, you’ll be working to conceptualize and craft bold and compelling campaigns that strategically drive connection and engagement across paid media channels, social platforms, and OOH. Our ideal candidate is skilled at creating engaging visual content that connects with social audiences with a deep native understanding of these platforms.

Who you are:

• Your portfolio showcases a strong design aesthetic with an extensive background in crafting campaigns that spans advertising across digital and social channels, video & motion, print, and OOH. Awarded work is a plus!
• You have a related 4 year degree and 5+ years of agency experience;
• You are able to clearly and confidently present work in front of both internal and external audiences, selling them on the idea;
• You are collaborative and enjoy mentoring and inspiring junior team members to produce their very best work both conceptually and in execution through coaching and feedback;
• You are a proactive learner with the passionate to keep up with ever-changing trends and drive innovative work in the marketplace.

Said differently, you are a person who wakes up early with their hair on fire with the next great idea, loves the work and wants to be a part of the next great agency. To apply, please share your resume and portfolio.

At Gupta Media, we work hard every day to be better at all that we do — and that includes fostering a diverse and inclusive community that encourages and respects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and ideas. Gupta Media is an office-first (with flexibility) organization and we are excited to have our team working together again.

CapTech's Customer Experience (CX) team seeks an Associate Creative Director with a track record of leading teams in the design of intuitive, impactful, and accessible digital brand experiences. As a creative leader, you help influence user behavior and enhance brand-customer relationships by guiding the delivery of elegant and engaging digital products and services. You will partner with project managers, user researchers, interaction designers, content strategists, and developers to bring end-to-end digital experiences to life.

Your colleagues and clients look to you to provide the vision they need to solve their most pressing business challenges. People see you as an innovative thinker, but also a skilled practitioner when the work demands it. You bring exceptional creative insight and drive, delivering projects from research through implementation in partnership with multi-discipline teams and the client. You lead, but as important, you listen.

You seek the best ideas, regardless of source, and deliver persuasive client presentations with confidence, but as a servant leader, you check your ego at the door. You are comfortable with enterprise-scale challenges, inspiring and motivating teams of designers and researchers to produce engaging, multi-channel digital solutions. You are not satisfied with “good enough“ yet you approach product design delivery with pragmatism.

Although most of your work will be client-focused, you will also mentor and coach more junior talent. Your expert knowledge of human-centered design principles and methods will guide the creative direction of projects, while helping teams avoid pitfalls. You advocate for the value of human-centered experience design both among your colleagues and with our clients, helping to win new business and deepen existing relationships. Your management and leadership skills will help nurture future design leaders and expand our practice.
Responsibilities may include:

Leading the creation of mood boards, design systems, and identity systems, as well as the design for conceptual prototypes, personas and customer journey maps.

Producing clean, informative, and concise presentations to clients and internal teams that communicate the rationale behind your designs.

Giving insightful and constructive feedback on the design of the experience, including interactions, information architecture, content, layout, aesthetics, and overall alignment with goals and brand.

Performing competitive assessments and providing innovative alternatives, as well as researching and understanding design and technology trends.

Contributing to the evolution of CX methodologies, capabilities, approaches, and toolset. Attending and leading CX meetings and trainings. Engaging in professional development and industry involvement.

Strong knowledge of user interface design best practices across various platforms, including web, OS-native, and embedded apps. Advocating the benefits of accessible experience and visual design with clients and team members.

ABL Space Systems was founded in 2017 by veterans of SpaceX and Morgan Stanley to develop low-cost launch vehicles for the small satellite industry. More importantly, we're building a launch system we are truly proud of - no gimmicks or over-design, just reliable, rapidly deployable launches. We're an ambitious team with big goals and, together, we're determined to prove that reaching space can be simple, efficient, and routine.
When launch day arrives, we want you by our side

Our Creative Team is responsible for ABL's self-expression, in areas including photography, videography, copywriting, and graphic design. We support our executives, our external communications, as well as customers and partners. We are both internal and external facing, and our assignments are quick-changing. A Creative Associate will help to tell ABL's story through a variety of projects and media. In a dynamic industry and a quickly maturing team, this will take deep thought, close collaboration, and meticulous follow-through.
RESPONSIBILITIES:Develop creative concepts, storyboards, and production plans (including schedules, cross-team approvals, pre-briefings with team members, logistics, physical preparation) Recommend and source equipment and resources for production events Communicate with different teams to assess their design needs Cover ABL's production facilities for capture (includes El Segundo and Long Beach, CA) Travel to ABL's various sites for capture (includes Mojave, CA; Kodiak, AK; others) Edit work, incorporating feedback from many teams across multiple review cycles Coordinate, as necessary, with internal approvers and external channels for publication Help to maintain repositories of work and processes for easy access across team users Help to maintain repositories of artistic direction, brand standards, and conventions Mix of independent and collaborative work, highly varied week-to-week
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:A Creative Associate may be a specialist in one of the following areas or a generalist across them: ▪ Photography ▪ Videography ▪ Editing across the Adobe Suite ▪ Media management ▪ Graphic Design ▪ Copywriting ▪ Production Assistant
WHAT WE LOOK FORThoughtfulness (we approach things intentionally from a blank slate, so the answer may be unconventional, and we need to be able to explain why we're choosing a new path) A resourceful problem-solver (we'll be executing many workflows for the first time) Organized (digitally and physically; we'll make content for many different audiences) An expert in at least one of the focus areas above (with a desire to gain more expertise!) Well-versed in the Adobe Creative Suite (where we do most of our work) Down to work across projects and get your hands dirty… as a typical day might include pitching a story for a customer in the morning then painting a rocket in the afternoon
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENTS:Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time Ability to lift 30 pounds with reasonable accommodations Ability to communicate with individuals and groups in person, by phone and telepresence While working this job, you will typically work across office, test site and launch site environments.
ITAR Requirement
This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, permanent residents, asylees, and refugees) is a required qualification for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or citizenship status (when otherwise legally authorized to work and access export-controlled data) and will not be discriminated against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants of all ages.