Design Director Job at Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh in New York

Content Summary: Design Director at New York, for Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh Company Description

We're Heartbeat, the marketing agency for Healthcare Challenger Brands and the brave clients behind them. And hopefully you're our next Senior Art Director, helping us to deliver game-changing campaigns for Consumers & HCPs. Read on to learn more about what qualities we're looking for in a new member of the crew and why you're gonna dig working with us.

Job Description

Heartbeat seeks an experienced Design Director. This role will be tasked with pushing the ambition and quality of Heartbeat's Design practice by creating, inspiring, and skills-coaching the design teams and outputs to the highest quality.

In this role you will help foster a Design ecosystem to support high quality craft and innovation, including establishing work practices, expectations, and partnership with cross-functional partners and clients.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Design brands, identities and expressions, campaigns, visual systems to support client work including brand development, brand and marketing campaigns, and new product launches.
• Understand, untangle, concept, sell-through, and execute works for each audience and marketing goal, ensuring that our Design is functional as well as beautiful and resonant.
• Apply a full funnel approach as you own consumer journey workflows and resulting Design executions.
• Work across all visual touch points in our Design practice, including: Brand, brand identity, digital, web, product, print, OOH, merchandise, physical experience executions and collateral systems.
• Ability to extract strategic and creative needs from a wide variety of stakeholders, both internally and externally, to clearly define the deliverables, goals/objectives, milestones and successful outcomes of any given project.
• Direct management of Design teams on individual projects.
• Collaboration with Designers, Creative Directors, Resource Managers, and Production Teams.
• Report to the VP, Creative Director, Design.

Qualifications

Who you are:

• A track record as a well-liked creative leader for projects/campaigns that include Brand and Design systems, audience experiences, and products that delight audiences/users and achieve business results.
• You have a "What's the note behind the note?" approach to feedback. You know that every note - whether or not you make the change - is valuable because it provides information.
• A consistent ability to clearly express yourself and have a strategic rationale for your creative ideas - including having the confidence to present your work in a clear and inspiring way to internal teams and client partners.
• Adept at guiding internal and external teams using rationales and persuasion, rather than inflexibility and impatience.
• Prioritize high teammate and stakeholder satisfaction with your work and process.

What you need:

• 6-8 years of experience as a creative in agency or in-house marketing teams including 2+ years in lead roles on multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Senior-level understanding of composition, color theory, typography, design history, and information architecture.
• A multi-disciplinary design portfolio that demonstrates excellence in visual executions across multiple touchpoints and channels every level of the engagement funnel.
• You don't have a singular look to your work - you're happiest as a shape-shifter who can create a unique design solution for client/project.
• Experience managing a virtual team working environment.
• Comfortable working concurrently on multiple projects at the same time.
• Enjoy monitoring the latest design trends from around the world in order to bring fresh inspiration to the creative team (and our wider teams) on a daily/weekly basis.
• Experience working and collaborating with teams via Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Heartbeat is a proud member of Publicis Health, the largest health communications network in the world. Publicis Health is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, the third-largest advertising and media company in the world - offering us unparalleled global reach and resources.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $66,785- $101,085 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 02/12/2025.