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About the Role
We are looking for a Creative Director (Art) to join Translation in our Brooklyn headquarters. The ideal candidate is culturally fluent and creatively ambitious, understanding how culture moves and evolves. This role involves leading the development of visual concepts, mentoring creative teams, and collaborating with strategy and client partners to ensure exceptional and strategically aligned work.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the timely development and execution of multiple campaigns and projects that meet client objectives and are breakthrough ideas.
- Create distinction in crowded categories by developing a clear creative vision for brands, products, and services.
- Develop creative solutions that defend budget recommendations and measurement objectives.
- Display an industry-leading understanding and application of principles for innovative and effective campaigns.
- Ensure the execution of high-quality work that is on time, on budget, and uses appropriate technology.
- Look beyond stated needs to identify creative opportunities that can grow the brand or create cultural impact.
- Serve as an arbiter of verbal and visual tone and craft for creative assignments.
- Provide leadership and motivation, conveying the vision and values of the agency to staff.
- Train and supervise assigned creative teams.
- Collaborate with the core leadership team on assigned accounts and projects.
- Maintain professional external relationships with production partners, freelance networks, and agency partners.
- Participate in the creation and presentation of client pitches and new business efforts.
Requirements
- Results and bottom-line-oriented, with deep appreciation for people, culture, and values.
- Persistent, diplomatic, passionate, and optimistic with a proactive, hands-on mentality.
- Hold yourself accountable and take pride in your work.
- Ability to successfully lead, motivate, and mentor teams of creative talent.
- Knowledge of the pre- and post-production process across formats and media.
- An understanding of the current landscape of creative advertising work in the market.
- Create conceptual platforms that visually tie both design and art direction together.
- Strong aptitude for providing clear creative direction, career path guidance, and timely feedback.
- Able to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on needs, timelines, and budgets.
- Possess and encourage high degrees of initiative, drive, empathy, accountability, creativity, and maturity.
- Demonstrate, evangelize, and live the core values of the agency.
- Incorporate passion, excitement, and experience in relevant ways that inform quality and output.
- Able to move with the ebbs and flows of pitches, brainstorming sessions, and deadlines with agility, humor, and focus.
- Possess and demonstrate impeccable interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
Skills
- Culturally fluent
- Creatively ambitious
- Google Workspace proficiency
- Microsoft Office suite proficiency
- Adobe Creative Suite proficiency
- Knowledge of current A.I. tools and platforms
Location
- Brooklyn headquarters
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of professional experience at an agency or similar creative organization
- Has held at least an Associate Creative Director title (or equivalent)
- Progressive experience in a client-facing, creative leadership role in a creative agency environment
Education Level
- Training or degree in a directly related field, such as advertising, graphic design, commercial art, or web/digital design
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000.00 - $240,000.00
Benefits
- Bonus opportunities
- Stock options
- 401k match
About the Company
- Translation is an award-winning independent creative agency that aspires to be the most culturally influential company in the world.
- We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges.
- We are a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling.
- We are an entrepreneurial business – not a traditional “ad agency.”
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proudly diverse in our backgrounds, our accents, and our fiercely held personal passions.
- We are, in every sense of the word, independent and not beholden to anyone else’s agenda.