Job Description

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, licensing, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy.  Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world.  The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced Creative Director to join our award-winning international team and play a pivotal role in a newly formed part creative leadership team off the back of a significant new business win working across sport and entertainment.

Reporting into ECDs you’ll take responsibility to lead, direct, and inspire a talented team to create stand-out, exciting, big ideas and campaigns that drive attention for our telco client across the worlds of sport and entertainment.

We’re looking for a confident self-starter who currently working as a Creative Director in a busy agency environment and is looking for a new creative challenge. You’re at home creating world-class campaigns that grab attention and deliver results, a fast thinker who loves nothing more than generating, developing, and presenting big ideas, and someone who thrives when owning the process from concept through to final delivery. You’ll need to bring lots of experience and a portfolio of work that demonstrates how you’ve used creative thinking to help solve a wide range of brand and business challenges. You are a creative generalist adept at thinking in both the visual world and written word that can confidently turn your hands to ideate across the full creative spectrum including; marketing and campaigns, brand, activation, and experiential. You should be a master at presenting and selling ideas to both clients and account teams leaving your audience captivated by your storytelling abilities. 

As a Creative Director at CAA Brand Consulting, you’ll work alongside a global creative function team of other Creative Directors, Creatives, Art Directors, Copy Writers, Designers, and our Executive Creative Director Team and in collaboration with our Strategy and Planning team to turn insights into groundbreaking creative concepts.  

This is a key hands-on Creative Director role for a hungry, confident, energetic and ambitious Creative Director with an entrepreneurial mindset who is excited by the opportunity of building and shaping a creative offer and inspiring and nurturing a team of dynamic talent within a fast-paced agency environment.  

The Department

CAA Brand Consulting is a strategy-led, full-service marketing agency with expertise in Cultural and Consumer Insights, Data and Analytics, Talent/Influencer and Property Partnership Advisory, Experiential, Social Impact, Creative Services, and Content and Digital Strategy. These integrated capabilities come together to offer solutions from planning through execution, and we pull in a collective perspective of expertise with each client brief to ensure we are tapping into diverse thinking and building strategies reflective of the marketplace and culture we work within.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, shaping and directing creative campaigns, experiential, and brand activations - determining how our clients’ brand shows up across their sports and entertainment partnerships. Building and lead BIG ideas and creative campaigns across the sports and entertainment landscape. 
• Develop concepts into well rounded integrated campaigns and activations and all the way through to delivery of assets. 
• Inspire, guide, and nurture a team of ambitious and dynamic creatives, art directors, copywriters, designers, and experiential specialists to bring their A-game each and every day. Fosters a positive creative culture getting the very best out of your team to delight our client.   
• Work alongside teams to build out the very best-in-class creative solutions, visuals, and copy for our client under the support and guidance of our Group Creative Director team. Work collaboratively with other Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, Artworkers and other creative specialists across all global regions where needed. 
• Strategic thinking and offers creative counsel to our accounts teams and clients alike.  
• Leverage consumer insights and market research to inform creative strategies
• Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to understand marketing objectives and develop strategic plans for marketing campaigns. 
• Craft creative solutions into compelling presentations that take our clients through your thought process in a way that is simple to understand and leaves them hanging on every word. Create what the campaign needs, producing beautifully designed decks that are in line with the project's objectives and requirements. 

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in the Creative space
• 7+ years creative/advertising/design agency experience at Associate Creative Director / Creative Director level 
• Demonstrated design and concepting leadership experience
• A design practitioner who is inspired by the visual world around them, past and present. 
• An impressive portfolio of work that demonstrates your creativity and ability to work across numerous marketing channels. 
• Entrepreneurial self-starter with a proactive can-do attitude 
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build new relationships quickly 
• Must have an organized and detail-oriented approach with the ability to work under pressure and against tight deadlines 
• Understanding and working experience in partnership marketing 
• Team player with the ability to work autonomously  
• Creative flair with a passion for ideas and innovative thinking 
• Confident presentation skills, verbal and written, with a strong attention to detail 
• Expert skills in advertising; branding; customer comms, content and social media. 
• Effectively communicating and selling creative concepts and BIG ideas to colleagues, clients and stakeholders. 
• Expert design craft and technical awareness across Adobe CC and Microsoft software package
• Ability to lead and inspire others to think creatively and build ideas. 
• Ambitious, and energetic, approaching each day with a can-do attitude
• Ability to Multi-task, seamlessly bringing your creativity to multiple projects at any one time. 

Preferred Skills

• Recognize the power of words and have the ability to write creative copy for campaigns, social posts and events. 
• Communicate your ideas through scamps, mood boards and storyboards. 
• Bring hands-on knowledge and experience of art directing photography and film shoots. 
• A keen eye for detail and are able to proofread, spell, edit and handle copy accurately. 
• Have good commercial awareness, ensuring that the creative vision is relevant and achievable throughout all processes of project delivery. 
• Have your finger on the pulse and have up-to-date knowledge of social, pop-cultural and industry trends. 
• Passion for and deep understanding of the entertainment marketing and design landscape. 
• Lives within the zeitgeist where entertainment, music, fashion, and pop culture intersect. 

Location

Based out of the New York offices.  This role is onsite/in office Tuesday thru Thursday and remote Monday and Friday.

Compensation: The annual base salary for this position is in the range of $180,000- $200,000. This position also is eligible for benefits and discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.

Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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