Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptional Creative Director who embraces delivering across pitch opportunities and projects that are in active production. They will be tasked with interpreting business requirements and client briefs quickly and translate them into elegant, creative solutions. Often working to tight deadlines while juggling multiple projects, the Creative Director must be skilled at overseeing a creative team (including but not limited to: art directors, copywriters, content strategists, graphic artists, designers).

The Creative Director must be exceptional at pitching creative concepts to clients and company stakeholders, as well as communicating ideas and creating concepts for other team members. 

The Creative Director must have an experience of ideation for interactive, gamified solutions, along with an understanding of AR/VR, immersive and Metaverse technologies. 

Responsibilities

• Distill abstract business concepts and client needs into refined, elegant creative solutions
• Take responsibility for the creative vision and the standard of output across team members who work under them
• Be a confident and exceptional communicator as the lead Creative contact for our high-profile Enterprise clients
• Pitch ideas confidently and present their creative vision clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of the creative team
• Craft ideas which are suited to the functionality of the specific immersive technology stack 
• Confidence and talent for creating visual mockups to assist guiding the creative design process
• Have strong supervisory, people management, and leadership skills in order to lead, inspire, develop, and oversee 
• Ensure that all of the organization’s or client’s creative output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand
• Lead multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas

Requirements

• A fine arts degree (preferred) or an undergraduate degree in graphic design, visual communication, typography, or a related subject, or equivalent professional experience
• Five or more years of creative direction experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience creatively directing complex solutions for digital and immersive
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and determine a creative vision that matches client briefs
• Excellent interpersonal skills to clearly and effectively communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, internal teams, and clients
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
• Supervisory experience (including leadership, team-building, and delegation) leading and managing a creative team
• A solid grasp of art history, design history, photography and the visual arts, pop culture, and counterculture; fluency in current technology, politics, a deep understanding of the zeitgeist of social tastes and current affairs
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism

Salary and Benefits

• Salary according to experience
• Annual bonus of up to 15% of annual salary (pro-rata on joining date)
• 28 days annual leave
• Employee share options scheme
• New equipment budget to ensure you have all hardware & software to be successful
• Flexible working and hybrid working
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities

About Aircards

• Aircards create Web-based AR/VR experiences for brands, organisations and marketers. Aircards focuses exclusively on the use of Web-based Mixed Reality, or WebXR technology.
• Aircards also creates a suite of additive technology products which are additive to the power of immersive and 3D experiences. 
• Aircards has an active client base featuring high profile global brands like Unilever, Diageo, Yahoo, Wizards of the Coast and Blizzard.
• Our UK HQ is in Newcastle-upon-tyne, right next to Central station while our USA operations are remote, but primarily centred around New York. 
• Aircards is an 8th Wall Niantic Premier Partner