Creative Director XR - MediaMonks, New York

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Job Description

Description

About the opportunity: In the Creative Director position, you’ll manage a team for one large client, thriving to get the most creative results for exciting unique opportunities the client is offering us. This is a role where you’ll partner with a big US based client working with new tech and comms. Additionally, our ideal candidate is a fast and flexible go-getter who jumps right onto new opportunities.

Responsibilities
  • In this key role, you’ll help steer the creative ship one of our biggest clients
  • Working as part of a dedicated unit within MediaMonks, New York, you’ll lead the Creative process and pitches, taking on campaigns and projects big and small
  • You’ll be client facing and the co-owner of our client relationships
  • You’ll manage multiple work streams while ensuring all deliverables are at a world-class level.
  • Develop disruptive next gen content ideas powered by 5G, both for net new partners of our client as well as building out existing partnerships ideas
  • Developing ideas from start to finish: briefing, concepting, presenting, feasibility, production
  • Develop a holistic understanding of our clients’ partners, tech and creative in crafting flexible concepts that can be applied to a variety of partnership opportunities
  • Build and maintain key relationships with internal cross-functional teams, including Producers, Creative, and Account.
  • Build and maintain key relationships with all clients and key stakeholders
  • Serve as quality control in reviewing assets and deliverables against the original client goals
  • Identify and develop the right set of assets and corresponding content to build stronger relationships between clients and their key partners.
  • Explore other potential marketing activities to reach specific audiences with a focus on learning and optimizations across programs and channels
  • You go above and beyond the original brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level, even under tight deadlines
  • You’ll translate briefs from various clients into digestible roadmaps for creative exploration
  • Combining creative art direction with critical thinking; your analytical approach enables you to ask the right questions and waterproof ideas from both a strategic and conceptual perspective
  • You’ll produce creative proposals, mockups and decks to kickstart new campaigns
  • You help to make sure all work is conceptually in line with campaign objectives and client expectations


Requirements
  • For this lead position, we’re looking for a client facing Creative Director with experience in Art Direction, Design & Tech, preferably leading creative teams in an advertising or production agency
  • Be very comfortable with being client facing
  • Have worked with XR tech such as AR, VR and Experiential
  • Managing several internal teams at the same time
  • Basic productional knowledge, allowing you to understand that how we make things will get us the most out of our creative
  • You’re able to present a portfolio of praise-worthy projects, showcasing your understanding of innovative tech trends, PR-able ideas, and campaigns
  • You can successfully ideate and pitch your ideas in a digestible, understandable format.
  • As part of a constructive feedback loop, you can give and handle criticism without making or taking it personally, eagerly going the extra mile if that’s what it takes to make good great.
  • You are humble enough to always listen and learn from clients and teammates.
  • You know how to empower and lead without a show of force, giving our in-house teams a clear creative direction and ownership over their projects.
  • As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you can successfully collaborate at a distance.
  • You know how to maintain a positive vibe and inspire people to get things done, wherever they are in the world