Please note, this role is based in Toronto.
As a Group Creative Director, Art you are a strong creative voice of the agency
and holistically lead large teams to creative excellence, account growth,
project delivery and talent development. You are a master storyteller – knowing
what sells, showing what delights, and flexing creative limits with ideas that
scare and enthrall. You know how to make the complex simple, the digital, human
and the work the best it can be.
You are a driving force. You maintain momentum. You are proactively directing
and inspiring your team to achieve and succeed. You are optically and mentally
present. You solve problems and overcome challenges with poise and confidence.
You advocate for your client, your team, and for the agency.
You Will:
- Drive creative discipline, through operational expertise and work to improve
a culture of excellence and accountability.
- Push ambition and innovation of the work and reshape briefs as necessary.
- Lead the team to conceive and develop creative that fulfills the expectation
of the brief.
- Develop experiences that connect customers to brands across the full
ecosystem.
- Partner with other disciplines to arrive at great insights and build amazing
digital solutions.
- Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project
stakeholders. Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams.
- Pitch to high-profile senior clients with an understanding of their
motivations and objectives.
- Integrate with partner agencies and manage collaborations with external
parties.
- Get work live, overseeing the execution process to ensure creative
excellence.
- Set and meet expectations for deliverables, estimations, and project plans.
- Develop, implement and monitor quality standards across all creative
disciplines.
- Provide regular team mentorship and constructive feedback.
- Develop, monitor, and modify creative department staffing strategies and
plans, including team compensation and performance, skills, training, and
mentorship.
You Have:
- 6+ years experience as a creative director or creative lead in an agency
environment – brainstorming, creative brief development, creative platform
development, campaign development, developing user experiences across the
connected ecosystem, and creative execution.
- Exceptional design skills
- A love for digital. Social, web, the metaverse, AI, gaming. All of it.
- An understanding of the full breadth of digital platforms and solutions and
how to steer creative outcomes across the full ecosystem.
- A deep knowledge of digital user experiences and how to innovate within UX
and UI.
- A drive to stay on top of cultural trends, technology developments and
audience insights as they pertain to the work.
- The desire to bring your team up with you. You lead by example. You are a
natural mentor, guiding with empathy and inspiration.
- Proven aptitude for quick, creative thinking with acute attention to detail
within demanding deadlines.
- The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and effectively
juggle demand.
Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set
you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work
from our Toronto office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email
addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io
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never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our
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