Creative Project Director Job at behindthechair.com in Chicago

The perfect blend of beauty & brains

Hiring for a Creative Project Director for behindthechair.com

Please send a copy of your resume, portfolio & cover letter directly to mary@behindthechair.com.

Behindthechair.com is the perfect company for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit who thrives on problem-solving, taking action, being part of a close-knit team and most importantly, making the lives of hairdressers easier! 

We need a unicorn: a consummate creative with elevated taste who can also execute with excellence and manage a team to deliver!

Introduction

A successful candidate for this role has a sophisticated degree of creative taste that can ideate collaboratively with our visionary founder and creative director, Mary Rector but can also “take the ball and run with it” to deliver or manage others to deliver online and offline templates, designs and iterations on a theme. This person should have 7-10 years in a creative role with several years in a leadership position with an eye for editorial-level beauty but the mind to deliver in a usable format to peers, teams & vendors at an exquisite level of excellence. And ideally, this person knows a thing or two about hair! 

The Position

This role will report to the CEO / Founder Mary Rector and become a part of the behindthechair.com Leadership Team.

The primary responsibility of this person is to co-create brand & event designs with Mary and then convert those designs to actionable outputs such as: 

• Collaborating seamlessly with our other departments: Editorial, Ad Team, Marketing and others to align on brand guidelines, logo development and event theme ideation that can be interpreted into digital and physical media
• Creating Social / Digital media templates & original artwork for 
• paid social & digital campaigns, 
• organic social and digital activity, 
• web activations such as banners and site advertisements, 
• e-blasts & sms outreach 
• Key Note / Canva presentations for major stage activations
• Creating print & other production deliverables such as
• Physical banners & trade show meterboards
• Booklets / yearbooks 
• Direct mail pieces
• Box art for promotional activation
• Working with our content creators: social & video to quickly generate assets to drive sale or engagement with our online consumer.
• Creating or collaborating with our Development team to create website designs that deliver on functional objectives but that also blends the behindthechair aesthetic with best-in-class UX/UI.

This person will also need to recruit & manage a team of independent contractors to potentially include production designers, UI experts and/or project managers to meet the highs and lows of creative needs at behindthechair.com.

This person should naturally be fluent in major design programs such as the Adobe Suite (Illustrator, InDesign & PhotoShop) but ideally also have familiarity and/or comfort using other programs such as:

• Canva: to create visual templates for department-owned designs
• Monday: to project-manage creative requests
• Google Suite: the core system of choice for behindthechair.com 
• Experience with After Effects & Premiere is a plus.
• Some experience with Dreamweaver or knowledge of HTML/CSS is preferred.

Location

Behindthechair.com is officially based in Illinois but we are a fully remote company. This role – however – will require some travel nationally possibly 6-8 times a year for shows, events, site-visits, planning meetings, etc. 

About Us

“Greatness is not reserved for a chosen few. It’s reserved for the few who choose it.”

Mary Rector

Founder, behindthechair.com

behindthechair.com launched in March 2000 by Mary Rector as a dream to bring the world of hairdressing to the hairdressers of the world.

Today, behindthechair.com is the largest website in the world for salon professionals with nearly 12,000,000 salon professionals logging on annually. Our story has been told in the New York Times, Business Week and the Chicago Tribune.

behindthechair.com provides hairdressers original content, 24/7 trending stories, engaging video, on-demand education, large impactful shows and continuing education, creating a destination hub for all salon pros who want to be in the know. This integrated digital approach allows BTC to reach and interact directly with our audiences across all our many platforms and it’s made BTC the number one media outlet in the world for hairdressers.

Some important stats: 

1. behindthechair.com welcomes more than 12MM hairdressers logging on annually.
2. btcuniversity.com is the industry’s first & largest on-demand video education site. Last year alone, we provided education to more than 180,000 hairdressers from more than 80 countries.
3. Our Instagram boasts over 2.6M Instagram followers, and Facebook over 1.7M.
4. Our pride & joy show – The BTC Show – is the largest single-stage 3-day, in-person professional beauty education event worldwide.
5. BTC’s #ONESHOT Hair Awards is the world’s largest hair awards program with more than 1.5MM entries from 90 countries in the past 6 years.

Interested?

Please submit a resume, a link to a digital portfolio and a short letter on why you want this role and what you can bring to the table. Please send a copy of your resume, portfolio & cover letter directly to mary@behindthechair.com.