Executive Creative Director/Chief Creative Officer
We are looking for a commercially and creatively outstanding individual to drive our agency's creative vision and develop an exceptional creative department that delivers culturally-impactful, award-winning campaigns for our global clients. You will be the guardian and executor of our creative vision, responsible for driving creativity across the agency as well as building a high-performing creative team that pushes the boundaries of creativity in order to deliver effective and impactful campaigns for our clients.
Main Responsibilities and Activities
1. Inspiring big conceptual, social-first, culture-leading campaigns by consulting and advising across the agency, as well as driving action and accountability.
2. Overseeing the inspiration, motivation, and performance of all the creative team.
3. Exceptional leadership of the team to utilize the talents of all members and increase the performance of individuals and the team.
4. Ensuring your direct reports and their teams are growing and developing their craft, and delivering on both Hub OKRs and their personal OKRs.
5. Developing cultural intelligence, advertising skills, and creative/technical skills in the Creative team to improve our creative outputs.
6. Working with Hub Leaders to establish excellent creative feedback rhythms and rituals to enhance the quality of campaigns.
7. Establishing and delivering creative best practice processes across the agency.
8. Setting the standards and expectations for creative briefing.
9. Leading client conversations to support the sale of more creatively challenging and diverse work.
10. Growing client confidence in Ear to the Ground creative ideas.
11. Being an external presence on behalf of Ear to the Ground within the marketing and creative industries.
12. Actively leading new business conversations and pitches.
13. Providing ideas and solutions to business challenges, having strategic conversations at Board level.
14. Overseeing the delivery of all ETTG's campaigns from ideation to delivery.
15. Driving excellent commercial awareness and performance across the Creative team.
16. Overseeing the delivery of all ETTG creative workshops with clients.
17. Championing and leading the inclusion of diversity of thought in all campaigns.
18. Overseeing the deployment of resources across campaigns, pitches, and agency work.
We're looking for:
1. Previous ECD/CCO experience.
2. Experience of running a multi-disciplinary creative department.
3. A culturally connected individual that cares about sport, fashion, and entertainment.
4. Substantial creative agency experience (min 10 years).
5. A significant portfolio of world-class work.
6. Proven ability to win major advertising awards.
7. Significant weight of multi-channel experience.
8. Strong capability to ensure creative teams execute effective campaigns consistently.
9. Ability to create big, bold ideas as well as effective social-first digital campaigns.
10. Commercially astute with a practical and inspiring creative skillset.
11. Ability to motivate, inspire, manage, and create.
12. Experience working with a Board team effectively.
13. High level of cultural awareness and intelligence.
14. Excellent experience developing and selling culturally relevant brand creative.
15. Passion for and savvy in youth culture.
16. A charismatic and intelligent communicator.
17. A highly experienced, excellent creative leader.
18. Excellent ability to provide accountability and effective consequence management.
19. Exceptional listening skills and ability to respond to feedback.
20. Entrepreneurial and business savvy.
21. Sophisticated POV on DE&I.
22. A passion for creativity and making a positive impact on the industry.
23. High energy, passion, and excitement about the agency, our clients, and our work.
24. Passion for sports, gaming, and culture.
Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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