SHADOW is seeking a Creative Director with 10-12 years of multidisciplinary creative experience, preferably working within the consumer and/or consumer tech space. This is a cross-divisional agency role, responsible for ideating and developing multi-channel campaign concepts and overseeing the development of campaign assets for SHADOW’s full roster of clients. The ideal candidate has a proven ability to manage the fast-paced nature of agency creative.
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. You specialize in spatial creative as well as photo/video campaign work.
- Technical Know-How: You are fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and knowledgeable 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 voice of authority for clients but direct and provide mentorship for a growing team, upholding creative standards of excellence and ensuring the integrity of campaign work.
- Communication: You can articulate creative concepts, strategies, and the guest experience relating to experiential marketing.
- Knowledge: You understand industry and agency best practices related to developing and executing creative across various disciplines and formats.
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: Direct and drive the execution of campaign ideas and production elements across a number of media formats, including print and graphic design, video, motion, and digital/web. Manage teams of creative talent, including in-house art directors, designers, producers, as well as freelance creative talent to support the execution of projects as needed.
- Brand Identity Creative: In addition to maintaining the integrity of brand identity throughout client work, for other clients you direct the development, establishment or refresh of brand elements and guidelines.
- Team Management: Oversee, manage and mentor a team comprising associate creative director, art directors, designers, and creative coordinator.
- Relationships & Creative Trust: In addition to building a relationship of creative trust with clients, grow and maintain an agency rolodex of creative talent including producers, photographers, designers, directors, illustrators, animators, etc.
Annual Compensation:
$160K - $200K
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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