Description:

Creative Director – Toronto (Onsite)

Working onsite with our client, based in Toronto, to lead and manage an in-house Virtual Artist Department (VAD) dedicated to designing digital assets and environments to support global film and media clients, virtual trade show environments, and the trade marketing department for a large international toy company. The director is responsible for idea generation, providing creative direction to the team, controlling revisions, executing on timelines, and presenting artistic vision to end clients.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Generate and nurture customized ideas based on client requests and project expectations.
• Establish and maintain creative guidelines, strategies, objectives, and priorities of multiple projects.
• Coordinate project plans with team leads and support execution of designs. Support creation and understanding of set design vision with client representative, technical directors and involved team members.
• Guide the decision-making process to ensure alignment between internal team and client’s creative visions, brand, and processes.
• Maintain project schedule timelines, budgets and exceed clients’ expectations.
• Facilitate and promote the flow of assets and information between various departments across all projects.
• Maintain quality control points across all departments to ensure adherence to project compliance, budget, and timelines.
• Offer additional input and solutions to unexpected challenges encountered during the creative process, production, and delivery in conjunction with the VAD teams.
• Solicit, share, and action regular feedback to all teams and clients.
• Conduct and deliver unique presentations to clients and key stakeholders.
• Grow, develop, and mentor a positive, professional, and fluid ecosystem of VAD team members.
• Schedule and attend meetings with the creative teams during concept development from design through implementation.
• Inspire, mentor, and challenge the creative teams to break ceilings.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the technology and visual content production processes and tools utilized to help guide key decisions and team communications.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years in the tradeshow field, virtual arts, and/or creative industry. Past roles should include managing virtual artists at diverse levels and on multiple projects.
• Pioneering:  Desire to innovate and take risks to create collective projects that exceed expectations.
• Retail Mindset:  Understanding of retail landscape, packaging, store layouts, planograms, etc.
• Attention to Detail:  Strong organizational skills with a high level of accuracy in all tasks.
• Communication Skills:  Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively with clients and internal teams. Strong presentation pitch and story-telling capabilities.
• Problem Solving: Ability to proactively mitigate project delays and maintain continuous touchpoints to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and an exceptional experience through project delivery.
• Collaboration: Prior experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, a strong desire to push limits and drive a team of high functioning, out of the box thinkers. Proven ability to manage and successfully complete multiple projects simultaneously while under pressure.
• Leadership:  Ability to make decisions, delegate and negotiate. Lead and encourage teams to approach all projects with an energizing, curious and inspiring vision. Create and develop strong, trusted relationships. Motivate and manage a variety of creative resources and unconventional ideas.

Benefits:

• Collaborative on-site working environment with ability to craft creative content for global best in brand industry-leading organizations.
• Leading and partnering with multiple teams and stakeholders on the high-level execution and delivery of top-tier content creation. No day is ever the same!
• Evergreen opportunities for growth and expansion of tailored creative client support models.
• Generous employee paid health benefits.
• 3 Weeks annual vacation leave
• $120,000 – $150,000 per year

If you are interested in learning more about the Creative Director position, please apply through the link provided to the attention of Jennifer Lefebvre at Jennifer.lefebvre@osbornerecruitment.ca or reach out directly at 647.472.4032.

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