Clear M&C Saatchi k Hiring for Associate Creative/Design Director at New York, NY Full Time

Job Description

Great design has always been at the heart of our offer and is a crucial component of our ability to deliver growth strategies that have clear impact. Design helps us deliver strategies that cut through because they are truly inspiring and brilliantly simple.

We are looking for a strong Associate Creative/Design Director to join the Clear team in New York. This person will act as the “right hand” to our Executive Creative Director. The Associate Creative Director is responsible for the quality of Clear’s creative output and will help provide strategic leadership and motivation to the creative team – ensuring Clear builds long-term client relationships while contributing to an inspiring and collaborative creative culture.

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced, talented, and strategic Graphic Designer who is passionate about inspiring creativity in others, as well as being hands on in shaping, growing, and differentiating our design and strategy offers. The Associate Creative Director will be involved in transforming the business, so we are looking for someone who is ambitious and full of creative ideas they want to bring to life, helping to maximize design’s impact on both our client work and on our overall business performance.

The successful candidate will be multi-disciplinary and understand how to create experiences – anything from video to digital applications to a pop-up store. They should also understand how to build successful strategies, as this role works very closely with strategy consultants at Clear. Additionally, this person should be both a thinker and a doer: a person with vision, enthusiasm, energy, and integrity who consistently collaborates to deliver against high standards and make things happen.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Take creative leadership on assigned client accounts
• Produce creative solutions that reflect or instill distinctive brand personality
• Develop strong relationships with clients, management, and with other internal teams
• Help direct and inspire other creative members of the team to elevate the quality of our work
• Provide clear, insightful, and objective critiques of creative work
• Help to ensure that deadlines are complete, accurate, and followed
• Teach creative philosophy, values, and beliefs to the broader team
• Act as a mentor for junior members of the team
• Help lead cultural initiatives and training to motivate, retain, and build a strong creative team
• Remain current and communicate industry trends and techniques
• Contribute to business development through new and organic growth opportunities
• Contribute to pitches and proposals to ensure creative is leveraged to bring our work to life
• Support client management, financial reporting, forecasting, and profitability

KEY COMPETENCIES:
Powerfully Insightful: Can extract insights from complex inputs and identify the implications and opportunities for big, inspiring ideas

Strategic & Creative Thinker: Can analyze a problem from multiple perspectives and reason potential ways forward

Commercially-Minded: Ability to assess and tell a story about commercial impact of recommendations and identify opportunities for follow-up business

Inspiring Leader: Ability to motivate, coach, and inspire others. Contributes to thinking on all areas of Clear including people, product, and process

World-Class Designer: Driven to direct and deliver compelling, world-class creative outputs that uphold and elevate the quality of our work while realizing the full potential of the strategy