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Via

Associate Creative Director

Via, Portland, Maine, us, 04122


ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR:

The VIA Group, Inc. (“VIA”) seeks a full-time Associate Creative Director in Portland, ME, responsible for generating creative concepts and strategies for advertising campaigns and executions, managing creative teams, and ensuring the achievement of client objectives. More specifically, this position is responsible for:

You could be just the right applicant for this job Read all associated information and make sure to apply.Overseeing client projects, providing creative guidance and project management;Collaborating with the creative team, including overseeing junior creative team members and working closely with agency Executive Creative Directors to enact their vision;Providing feedback to collaborators on current projects and productions, including junior/senior creatives in the agency, other agency team members, client internal teams and external vendors;Delegating projects to in-house designers and overseeing deliverables such as storyboards, websites or product packaging;Overseeing and delivering the presentation of final creative concepts to day-to-day and senior clients;Ensuring all projects meet budgets, timelines, brand guidelines, and other requirements including the agency’s standard of creative excellence.The position also involves working closely with clients and client organizations – from pitch and contract engagement through to final execution – to manage goals, expectations, and outcomes.Position involves possible/occasional travel to client sites, including various/multiple unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. and internationally, in order to visit and meet with clients regarding advertising and marketing projects. Time spent traveling is estimated to consume up to approximately 5-10% of work time per year.Minimum requirements:

Bachelor of Arts in Design, Fine Art, Advertising, or related field involving visual design; and five (5) years of professional design experience involving visual communication and/or visual media, including: Research and analytical skills, project management, problem solving, client interactions and design presentations to clients, and project cost estimation and budgeting; and at least one year of ad agency experience involving visual design and creation of digital assets and visual media, ensuring consistency of visual concepts with product/service branding and other elements, advertising project management with team collaboration and the handling of multiple deadline projects simultaneously, and experience navigating multi-layered networks of stakeholders and decision-makers within large client organizations. Please note that this position is eligible for hybrid work in which employee may work remotely one day per week but must reside within a reasonable daily commuting distance of the Portland, ME office.

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