About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Creative - Art to join Translation, a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do.
Responsibilities
- Own the process, collaborating seamlessly with account, strategy and production teams.
- Conceive and implement creative ideas, concepts and strategies in client endeavors while working with teams to oversee them to completion.
- Align with creative management to monitor team efforts and provide feedback on performance.
- Sync with project management to prioritize work across multiple deliverables to satisfy both short- and long-term priorities.
- Structure creative presentations with an enthusiasm for presenting multi-platform campaign ideas while fostering strong client relationships.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience and a portfolio that displays clear conceptual thinking, the ability to translate core ideas into multiple iterations and a love for storytelling.
- Inspired approach to creative problem solving with a strong grasp of cultural trends and social codes.
- Results oriented, yet possess deep appreciation and sensitivity towards people, culture, and values.
- Persistent, diplomatic, passionate and optimistic, with a pro-active, hands-on mentality.
- Hold yourself accountable and take great pride in your work.
- Proven background of ideation, presentation and execution of core big campaign foundations.
- Able to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term need, timelines and budgets.
- Possess and encourage initiative, drive, empathy, accountability, creativity and maturity.
- An entrepreneurial disposition and able to move with the ebbs and flows of pitches, brainstorming sessions, and deadlines with agility, humor, and focus.
- Strong communicator on the team and capable of teaching staff members to be more persuasive art directors and presenters.
- Attention to craft and visual tone that tells a cohesive brand story.
- Possess and deliver excellent communication skills, able to present thoughts clearly, accurately, and succinctly.
- The ability to demonstrate, evangelize, and live the core values of the agency.
- Incorporate the passion, excitement and experience of one’s MINOR in relevant ways that inform the quality and output of agencies deliverables.
- Minimum of 5 years relevant creative field experience with corresponding portfolio of culture-driving work.
- Digitally savvy; must be proficient in Google and Microsoft Office suite.
- Tech forward creative thinking and problem solving.
- Progressive experience in a client-facing creative role.
- A comprehensive understanding of sports and music culture is always a plus.
- Ability to concept across a range of tones from humor to serious.
- Training, degree or relevant work experience in a directly-related field, such as advertising, art / design, or journalism / script writing.
- An understanding of Latine culture is a plus.
Skills
- Conceptual thinking
- Storytelling
- Creative problem solving
- Cultural trends
- Social codes
- Collaboration
- Client relationship management
- Presentation
- Communication
- Initiative
- Drive
- Empathy
- Accountability
- Creativity
- Maturity
- Agility
- Humor
- Focus
- Craft
- Visual tone
- Brand storytelling
- Google Suite proficiency
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
- Tech forward creative thinking
- Sports culture understanding
- Music culture understanding
- Latine culture understanding
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Training, degree or relevant work experience in a directly-related field, such as advertising, art / design, or journalism / script writing.
About the Company
- We are a well-established independent agency and thriving music business, built to help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges.
- As a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, we are united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do.
- We are an entrepreneurial business – not a traditional “ad agency.” That means we value resourcefulness and tenacity just as much as we value creativity and intelligence.
- We’re unapologetically ambitious, but we’re also a tight-knit crew.
- UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters.
- UnitedMasters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth.
- Combined, UnitedMasters, Inc. is the world’s leading marketplace for cultural capital, connecting independent artists and brands to realize a future in which all creators own their future.
- Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple, UnitedMasters, Inc. is reimagining how brands and artists come together to tell their stories, build profitable growth, and push culture forward.
