Department: Creative
Title: Creative Director
Level: Director
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Type: Hybrid Office Policy 3x Week
ABOUT GLUEIQ
GlueIQ is the brainchild of our collective obsession with Creativity, Culture, and Tech. We understand that complex problems are best solved collaboratively, and it was time for a creative consultancy model that could foster those critical connections between people, process, and tools that drive meaningful growth for our clients
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Creative Director (Design) is responsible for leading and inspiring a team of creatives while generating innovative ideas and delivering the highest-quality creative. You’ll be adept at problem-solving and finding solutions that benefit the company, clients, and creative team alike. With a clear creative vision and an impressive design-based portfolio, you’ll drive projects across various channels, while playing an integral role in team and client relationship development.
At GlueIQ, we value the craft and creative excellence—so expect being hands-on, shaping concepts and executing ideas. While, as a senior team member, you’re helping build and guide a talented team in
developing and producing quality creative meeting client business objectives and goals.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Concepting & Design: Leads and oversees team in concepting phase and delivery based on creative brief objectives. Takes risks and offers new and innovative guidance to team and new ideas to clients. Provides strategic support for concepts.
Client Relationships: Maintain a close relationship with the client to ensure understanding of business needs. Maintaining an ongoing dialogue and continue growing client relationship by instilling trust and rapport.
Presentation: Takes the lead in overarching design and story, compilation, and presenting of client presentations. Consistently presents and sells ideas through to account and senior client. Develops outline and story for the presentation of existing concepts/directions. Provides strategy content and rationale for final presentations.
Brand/Design Planning & Oversight: Work closely with other members of the team to ensure creative briefs delivering on business needs, and ideas meet high standard of creative output delivering against key objectives. Acts as a brand analysis / SME in providing oversight to teams. Considered a thought leader to client and internal teams and defines best practices or standards that are used across engagements. Presents compelling findings to senior clients.
Creative Excellence: Creative passion to drive strategically sound creative solutions; oversee teams executing creative output. Help drive idea-led creative solutions reflecting modern marketing and channels, while including relevant cultural insights and industry trends. Collaborates and works closely with other disciplines to ensure deliverables are meeting business objectives and criteria.
Practice & Capability Development: Provide leadership in the creative and production process to ensure best-in-class delivery. Mentor and manage a team of junior/mid-level creatives to ensure team growth and development. Acts as a mentor that helps others continuously evolve their work and craft.
WHO YOU ARE / REQUIREMENTS
- Located in South Florida and committed to 3-day week hybrid office policy.
- Minimum of 10+ years relevant work experience with design, art direction, and/or creative direction.
- Must be forward thinking and embrace creative innovation in the digital space
- Must be an effective manager of people to ensure creative department is motivated and enthusiastic, able to empower teams to take on responsibility and be inspired about their work.
- Hold the position of trusted partner and advocate to clients, providing advice and guidance
- Ability and proven track record of leading and building high performing digital creative teams
- Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike
- Great communication skills, both verbal and written
- Big picture thinking with strong attention to detail
- Relentlessly curious about people, technology, brands, design and business
- Able to balance a strong point of view with an ability to listen, learn and adapt
- Positive, enthusiastic; strong motivation and drive to succeed
BENEFITS:
- Glue-IQ pays 100% of Health plan premium (health, dental, vision)
- Hybrid working environment
- 401k Profit-Sharing Plan
- Client-specific benefits and perks
- Office located in heart of Coral Gables
*GlueIQ is strongly committed to hiring a diverse staff, and believes all experiences and perspectives bring value to our clients. GlueIQ does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnic origin, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
