Associate Creative Director

About This Role

Leading and inspiring a creative team to deliver flawless retail executions is the core of this role, which involves orchestrating conceptual design work and ensuring client expectations are met. The Associate Creative Director partners with the Creative Director to achieve business goals and foster a strong creative culture.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Groupe and agency’s vision and how the team’s work makes an impact
• Partner with the CD to deliver on the teams’ business goals, vision, and priorities
• Help the team manage their time efficiently and enter it accurately
• Know the business, processes, and how to manage the work and people effectively
• Lead Track 3 conceptual design work and assist T1 and T2 work (as directed by the CD)
• Manage deliverables and assign tasks to the creative team, helping them prioritize and meet client expectations
• Provide creative concepting and thought leadership to elevate and innovate the work
• Organize creative team meetings, touch bases, and work reviews
• Lead internal creative reviews as aligned with the CD for practice before client presentations (may delegate)
• Be aware of revision orders and ensure meeting timelines
• Approve tactics on day-to-day deliverables (aligned with the CD)
• Co-lead inspiring brainstorms and be able to independently lead when needed
• Cover cross-functional team status meetings and communicate next steps back to the team
• Attend kickoffs as needed and be available to give the team timely, clear direction and feedback
• Orchestrate who’s doing what and partner with RM and the CD to help the team prioritize deliverables and flow to the work
• Set up creative connects to review the work
• Ensure QA measures are in place across the work
• Run the “produce” step of T1 and T2 work
• Act as the CD’s partner, co-lead, and backup who can lead the team and the work when needed
• Be available when the CD is busy to provide clear direction and actionable feedback to the team
• Present internal and external work persuasively and connect it back to the strategy and brief
• Be able to roll up their sleeves and “do” the work to help the team deliver
• Be responsible for file organization and communication in Teams
• Assist the CD in building effective client presentation decks that show off the work
• Prep the deck and team for internal reviews and client meetings
• Foster a Creative culture that allows team members to do their best work
• Conduct consistent one-on-ones for growth planning with direct reports
• Coach younger talent and help them grow their hard and soft skillsets