SHADOW is seeking an Associate Creative Director with 8+ years of multidisciplinary creative experience, preferably working with consumer brands. This is a cross-divisional agency role, responsible for contributing to the ideation and development of campaign concepts and leading the development of visual assets and design elements for SHADOW’s full roster of clients. The ideal candidate has a proven ability to manage a robust workload in a dynamic setting.
What You Bring:
- Creative Vision: You have a distinguished portfolio of creative work that demonstrates an ability to deliver breakthrough creative concepts and executional precision
- Technical Know-How: You are fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and comfortable with video editing and animation platforms, including Premiere Pro and After Effects.
- Innovative Thinking: You religiously follow design, video, style and culture trends, and have the necessary context to think unconventionally and deliver cutting edge work.
- Leadership: You’ll serve not just as a senior voice for clients as well as support a growing team, upholding creative standards of excellence and ensuring the integrity of campaign work.
What You Do:
- Creative Ideation: Develop and design integrated concepts for prospecting and existing clients in collaboration with various agency teams, including social media content, photo/video, events/experiences, digital/web and more. This includes directing the compilation and layout of concepts, moodboards, storyboards, and design mocks for presentation to clients.
- Campaign Direction: Support the direction and execution of campaign ideas and production elements across a number of media, including print and graphic design, video, motion, and digital/web. Manage creative talent, including in-house art directors, designers, producers, as well as freelance creative talent to support the execution of campaign elements.
- Brand Identity Creative: In addition to maintaining the integrity of brand identity throughout client work, for other clients you support the development, establishment or refresh of brand elements and guidelines.
- Team Management: Oversee, manage and mentor a team composed of art directors, designers, and creative coordinator.
- Relationships: In addition to building a relationship of creative trust with clients, Grow and maintain agency rolodex of creative talent including photographers, designers, directors, illustrators, animators, etc.
Annual Compensation
$135K - $165K
What We Provide:
- Medical + dental + vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests, on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule (1-3 days in office per week, depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits, the Company reserves the right to modify, amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Top Skills
What We Do
SHADOW is a creative marketing and communications agency with integrated disciplines across media relations, influencer marketing, experiential and event production, social media management and content development.
Using these services, we shape insights and ideas into stories, animate stories into moments and engineer moments into movements.
We are also connectors – we create inter-client synergies to maximize opportunity as well as leverage industry relationships for introductions, partnerships, business development and more.
With a robust portfolio of brand campaigns, cross-categorical experience, and a deep rolodex of industry relationships, we have captured the loyalty of some of the world’s most prestigious companies, including luxury and lifestyle brands, retailers, tech start-ups, publishers, personalities, non-profit organizations and hospitality groups. We are a New York-based agency, with a west coast presence made possible through our SHADOWest suite of services.
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