As Associate Creative Director for Strum, you are a master communicator, a brilliant conceptor, a formidable designer, and a highly effective team leader. You lead the development of our marketing and advertising campaigns — working closely with Strum’s Principal Creative Director and Director of Brand Identity.
You see through complex problems, find a creative solution, and wrap it with a story. You have an intuitive feel for design and copy. You know how to make them work together. You lead a small team of designers and writers — mentoring and guiding them along the way. But you’re not just a manager, you’re a creator. It’s a player-coach kind of thing. You design. You write. You present. You persuade.
You like working with others. You excel at problem solving. Failure doesn’t scare you. You dust yourself off and keep moving. You are pragmatic and optimistic with a track record of getting stuff done. And despite what you’ve accomplished, your best work lies ahead of you.
If this sounds like you, then Strum wants to meet you.
This is a remote position. Strum is based in Seattle. The right candidate could come from anywhere, but needs to be available during west coast business hours (8:30am – 5:30pm PT).
What you'll do:
- Work alongside Principal Creative Director and Director of Brand Identity to concept and oversee the creation of advertising and marketing campaigns
- Bring passion and creativity to any assignment
- Build effective integrated campaigns across a variety of mediums — frequently including digital display, direct mail, outdoor, video — your work will encompass all of it
- Generate compelling concepts with your skills in art direction, design and copywriting
- Lead designers and copywriters to create great work
- Manage the creative process: You'll have many balls in the air at once, and you’ll keep things flowing smoothly, continually reviewing and optimizing every piece of creative work your team produces
- Build presentation decks in Keynote
- Present to clients and stakeholders — many of whom are not creative
- Advocate for the creative work, while listening, building consensus, and adapting as needed
- Collaborate with account team to understand business objectives and client expectations
- Continue to learn and push yourself
- Work with Principal Creative Director to lead and guide the creative team
- Provide leadership/motivation and convey the vision and values of the agency
- Demonstrate high work ethic
Qualifications:
- Proven conceptual and design skills
- 8+ years as a creative professional, with at least 3+ leading a creative team as ACD or equivalent
- Expertise in Adobe CC
- Working knowledge of Keynote
- Ability to gracefully manage multiple projects, revisions and timelines
- Comfortable working remote: effective self-starter, can make progress independently, but also comfortable with remote collaboration
- Passionate attitude and enthusiasm
- Fun, creative energy
- Critical eye for details
About Strum:
Strum is a strategic branding and marketing firm. We focus on helping financial institutions, but that doesn't mean we’re boring. Clients from all over the world come to us for our insight and our creativity. We value curiosity, insights, courage, craft and people.
We're headquartered in Seattle, but this is a remote position.
- Work from anywhere, but with availability during west coast hours (8:30am – 5:30pm PT)
- Office space is available in Seattle, if that’s your thing
- Even though we’re remote, a tight-knit culture is important to us — we thrive as a connected team — you will be an important part of our culture
- We typically do a couple in-person team events in Seattle every year — we’ll fly you in if you live out of the area
- We have clients all over the country — almost all of our creative presentations are remote, but infrequent work travel may be required — this will be limited
Salary range for this position is $110,000 – $130,000 DOE and includes the following benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401k match, and generous PTO.
