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About the Role
GPJ is hiring a Creative Director to lead the team in creative ideation and innovative thinking, mentor and grow creative team members, and foster an open, collaborative environment that inspires great work. This role involves guiding the development of strategic and creative ideas for various events, focusing on overall creative strategy and customer journey to deliver results.
Responsibilities
- Supervise account-based creative teams day-to-day to ensure their success
- Manage 1-4 direct reports and invest in their career path, growth and development
- Collaborate in NBD efforts, developing mind-blowing ideas and pitching to success
- Contribute to creative and agency culture, inspiring teams to do their best work
- Collaborate with creative leadership to create high-quality, strategic presentations
- Excel at managing team workload and meeting tight deadlines
- Lead planning and strategy sessions resulting in clear creative briefs
- Lead project creative teams, overseeing work and ensuring execution is consistent and of the highest quality output
- Work closely with Creative leadership to establish agency best practices and standard
- Push the development of multiple concepts and solutions to meet client objectives
- Develop personal client relationships that inspires them and manages expectations
- Collaborate with IP, graphics production, fabrication and creative tech to set agency standards and solve design and budgetary challenges
- Oversee account-based creative teams, while partnering closely with strategy, production, and accounts
- Deliver unique and authentic experiences for our clients
- Partner with clients and senior team members across departments to heighten a brand’s significance and performance
- Contribute to and oversees the concept, design and development of pitch presentations and concepts for new business and existing clients
- Lead the development of new ideas and creative design solutions across multiple brands and initiatives
- Partner with IP, account, GFX Production and Fabrication to set agency standards for work and define best practices
- Maintain project budgets and tracks allocated hours to ensure profitability of the creative team
- Represent the agency with integrity and confidence with clients and at industry events
Requirements
- Minimum of four year degree in Design, Advertising, Theater or related creative discipline
- Minimum 10 years industry experience or related creative process experience combining strategy, content, message with creative deliverables
- Event and Experience Design expertise desirable
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills required
- Ability to lead, motivate and inspire the creative team, while keeping the creative process in alignment with GPJ business goals and objectives
- Ability to travel 25%
- Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed
Skills
- Team player
- Broad-based exposure to art, design, music, media and content
- Creative team leadership and direction
- Partnering with strategy, production, and accounts
- Concept, design and development of pitch presentations
- Creative innovation
- Communication
- Flexible
- Prioritization/Organization
Location
- Boston
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-site
Experience Level
- Minimum 10 years industry experience
Education Level
- Four year degree in Design, Advertising, Theater or related creative discipline
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy
- Employer matching 401(k) plan with no vesting period
- Low employee contribution healthcare option
About the Company
- GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing.
- Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways.
- We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.
Equal Opportunity
- GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class.
- In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
- GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.