Associate Creative Director
Job Summary
Job Description
Bounteous is seeking an Associate Creative Director to lead and inspire design teams in creating award-winning digital experiences. This role involves shaping creative strategy from concept to execution across various digital platforms. Responsibilities include overseeing creative activities like experience strategy, conceptual design, copywriting, art direction, and production. The director will ensure all creative deliverables align with brand guidelines, business requirements, and accessibility standards. They will also collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and clients, facilitate discovery activities, and mentor direct reports. The ideal candidate has a background in responsive and mobile design, experience with platforms like WordPress and Drupal, and strong communication and leadership skills.
Must have:
- Lead and inspire design teams
- Shape creative strategy
- Oversee creative activities
- Ensure alignment with brand guidelines
- Collaborate with teams and clients
- Mentor direct reports
- 8+ years of experience
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Strong communication skills
Good to have:
- Experience in consulting/agency
- Experience with WordPress, Drupal, Magento, AEM
- Experience in Adobe After Effects
15 skills required
Job Details
Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.
Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.
Bounteous is looking for an Associate Creative Director to join our fast-growing design practice. This role is ideal for a dynamic and impassioned creative veteran focused on furthering sound design principles in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The ideal director is a naturally engaging storyteller and mentor who enjoys collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to collectively deliver incredible, award-winning experiences.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
Role and Responsibilities
- Leads, inspires and motivates teams to create and deliver influential, innovative, best-in-class, customer-centric solutions that drive business goals
- Shapes and directs creative strategy and deliverables from concepts through execution for a variety of digital platforms and experiences
- Facilitates and oversees creative activities such as experience strategy development, conceptual design, copywriting and art direction, production oversight and concept for photoshoots and video production
- Ensures all creative deliverables align with brand guidelines, business and user requirements, and accessibility standards
- Ensures digital designs meet the needs of development and technical teams to ensure feasibility and digital design best practices (mobile first design, etc.)
- Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams and partners closely with clients to establish strategy, and align goals with tactics
- Facilitates and oversees discovery activities such as design workshops, stakeholder interviews, expert reviews, competitive reviews, etc.
- Leads and coaches direct reports to set and work towards career goals, and helps identify training and development needs
- Contributes to our culture and atmosphere, quality of work, and growth into the next generation of experience designers
- Supports project management to schedule design activities and deliverables within programs and projects
- Stays informed on design best practices, trends, and tools, and participates in the local design community
- Juggles multiple clients and projects/tracks of work simultaneously
Education and Work Experience
- B.S./B.A./B.F.A. in graphic design, digital design, visual communication, or other design-related fields
- 8+ years of experience as a creative professional, with a focus on design, user experience, and storytelling. Consulting/Agency experience is a plus.
- Background in responsive and mobile design
- Experience working on platforms like (but not limited to) WordPress, Drupal, Magento, AEM
- Experience mentoring and managing a team of direct reports
Tools and Software
- In depth knowledge / proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Sketch, InVision, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience in Adobe After Effects or similar motion graphics programs a plus
Design and Communication Skills
- Experience leading engagements with a strong voice for creative and meticulous eye for detail
- Ability to provide creative direction as well as overall leadership for strategic and account direction
- Experience designing around data sets and reusable components/patterns
- Understanding of mobile, responsive design, accessibility and Agile methodologies
- Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal, cross-disciplinary) with all levels of management and staff to achieve desired outcomes and build strong alliances and relationships
- Experience presenting work to clients, facilitating workshops and conducting stakeholder interviews
- Excellent listener with a passion for human-centered design
- Is proactive and has efficient time-management skills
$118,000 - $126,000 a year
Individual pay is determined by many factors, including experience, relevant education or training, and organizational needs. The mid-range to maximum of the salary range is generally reserved for individuals who are highly experienced in the role.
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Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.
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