Aquent is hiring: Creative Director, Video, Digital Experience in San Francisco

Creative Director, Video, Digital Experience

Aquent Studios x Adobe is a custom-built creative agency partnership that provides scalability with world-class talent to Adobe’s in-house studio and web team. This collaboration creates exciting opportunities to work with Aquent Studios and impact millions of customers, showcasing Adobe’s products via innovative storytelling and unique visual experiences.

We’re looking for a Creative Director, with demonstrated video experience to join Aquent Studios x Adobe team supporting Adobe Studio’s Digital Experience (DX) team in concepting, developing and designing creative assets and instructional workflows for marketing materials to support growing their video content library. The team creates compelling how-to’s in innovative ways that teach sophisticated techniques through concise and engaging experiences for social media and web.

The role will lead project teams to plan, analyze, concept, and execute assigned projects. The role diagnoses (by meeting with internal teams, agencies/vendors, and stakeholders) to assess effectiveness of creative solutions in meeting marketing goals. This CD is a passionate user-advocate that leads teams to design innovative, breakthrough creative solutions to inspire users on various platforms.

What you’ll need to succeed:

1. Demonstrated experience leading enterprise and B2B content creation, marketing, promotional materials, and social media (with a heavy emphasis on video)
2. Experience maintaining & appropriately evolving the aesthetic of the brand
3. Experience working directly and collaboratively with campaign and functional marketing teams
4. Being acutely aware of industry trends; able to incorporate new techniques and inform team
5. The ability to think strategically about engagement and learning solutions
6. Demonstrating design vision and an ability to innovate
7. Being able to create a wide variety of solutions that demonstrates knowledge of various design styles
8. Being able to review, critique, and iterate on solutions in a very fast-paced and highly collaborative environment
9. Conceptualizing breakthrough (brand appropriate) design that is modern and disruptive with dynamic storytelling
10. Responding to briefs with creative visual solutions
11. Clearly communicating creative concepts to multiple audiences, ensuring concept is aligned across key partners and leadership
12. Collaborating with external creative agency teams (paid social video) as well as any internal cross-functional teams
13. Providing editing choices and creative rationale
14. Collaborating with internal partners to understand and implement best practices for newer social channels (TikTok and Snapchat)
15. Staying up-to-date and share trends across the paid social ecosystem

Required Skills

1. 10+ years experience as an ACD+, with an emphasis on video content creation
2. Strong knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Figma and XD; including color, typography, design and graphic principles
3. Ability to create high-quality artistic, engaging assets with an eye for detail and clean, sophisticated aesthetic
4. Strong knowledge of Premiere Pro and workflows related to video content creation and editing
5. Solid knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator also required. Knowledge of After Effects is a bonus. (NOTE: this is not a motion design role)
6. Intermediate to expert knowledge of Creative Cloud applications and use, including some or all of the following: Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, and Illustrator.
7. Experience with Premiere, After Effects, or Fresco a plus
8. Must be a quick and motivated learner to explore and then teach new techniques as project needs require
9. Excellent design, layout, and typography skills in a range of media across a broad range of projects
10. An open attitude and collaborative style. Need to collaborate with cross-functional teams
11. Experience working to tight deadlines

Must submit with application:
Required: Strong graphic design portfolio that demonstrates layout and composition skills, typography.

Client Description

Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!

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