Brand New School is seeking a Creative Director for a full-time hybrid role at our New York studio. With ~65 employees across the United States, we are a tight community of talented artists and producers with one common goal - making great work.
Responsibilities
- Leading and inspiring teams of creatives from idea conception through final delivery.
- Conceiving design strategies for pitches and projects for a variety of platforms, which can then be sold through to clients.
- Articulating ideas and leading a group of creatives to develop inspiring work.
- Assembling presentation decks and comfortably pitching novel ideas to clients.
- Creating designs, style frames, and motion concepts for a variety of content.
- A genuine awareness of the creative challenges associated with producing exceptional work while satisfying the demands of clients.
- Conceiving and visualizing forward-thinking ideas that push the creative boundaries of our projects.
- Being an active participant of the team and contributing to the creative culture of the studio.
Qualifications
- Instincts on how to approach projects, engage with clients, and lead teams
- Ideas for how to author novel creative solutions, evolve relationships with clients and inspire teams to create their best work
- 5 years leading teams and working directly with both agencies and brands
- A portfolio/reel of work that conveys an ability to art direct high-level work for a variety of content types.
- Articulate, wildly creative and a problem solver.
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Figma. After Effects is a bonus but not a mandate
- Must be efficient, detail-oriented, organized, and able to work under tight deadlines
- Awareness of the creative challenges associated with producing exceptional work while satisfying the demands of clients
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- One Medical account
- Company sponsored continued education
- Customized mentorship and growth plans
- Peer bonus system
- Generous PTO / sick leave
- Company administered 401(k) plan with matching for eligible employees
- Peloton digital membership (12 month)
- Dog friendly work environment 🐶
Salary Range
$140,000 - $180,000
Brand New School attracts a team with unique skillsets and varying levels of experience. The salary range provided is broad and will be refined during the interview process.
Top Skills
What We Do
For two decades we have been building a playground for creativity. A place where a diverse collective of artists, thinkers and makers can express themselves, experiment freely, and be bold. A place where brands come to be authentic, question convention, and stand out from the crowd.
We are not simply a design studio, production company, or agency. We are a modern creative company. We strategize, we ideate, we design, we make. We go wherever our pursuit of originality takes us.
What connects everything we do is our mission to inspire others to see problems as opportunities to be authentic and original.
To be original requires a new school of thought.
We are Brand New School
