Executive Creative Director, Fashion/Luxury/Entertainment, CNCC

Advance Magazine Publishers • New York, NY

291d • $154,000 - $210,000

About The Position

As the Executive Creative Director based in our New York office, you will lead teams working on a wide range of branded creative campaigns and special projects with advertisers and Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork and The New Yorker. Taking a 360 approach (photography, video, experiential, digital, print, social), your strategic leadership, category expertise and creative vision will guide the team in building partnerships that bring brands closer to culture. Reporting directly to the Global Vice President of Creative, you will collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders in marketing, sales, production and editorial departments. The ideal candidate will be a multidimensional and conceptual creative who can bring flair and cultural knowledge to an array of relevant categories: fashion, luxury, and entertainment. You're an expert in branded storytelling, and will apply a distinct and editorially-informed point of view to bold work for our partners. You will need to bring a sound base of experience managing multiple teams in a creative setting, and a hard-working collaborative attitude. The role is responsible for guiding the team through the conceptual development of pitches and overseeing the creative team workloads and priorities while also working upstream on creative strategy. The ideal candidate will be able to maintain a smooth and efficient process across all projects while inspiring your team to uphold Condé Nast's brand voices, creative standards and codes throughout.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience as a creative lead in media, premium brands or creative agencies.
• Excellent written, visual and verbal presentation skills.
• Expert ability with Adobe Creative Suite and Google Slides.
• Extensive experience on set and with pre- and post-production processes for video and still photography (digital and print).
• Passion/experience in cultural categories relevant to Condé Nast audiences: fashion, entertainment, cuisine, beauty, travel, and technology.
• A portfolio demonstrating a multidimensional body of work encompassing 360 creative campaigns (content, marketing and advertising).
• Highly organized, and skilled with time-management and workload prioritization.
• Experience building and managing creative teams and implementing new processes.
• Passionate about brands, ideas, stories, design and experiential, and a cultural point of view that translates to brand campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Set the bar for innovative and impactful creative work that defines new standards for branded partnerships in fashion, luxury and entertainment categories.
• Inspire a U.S.-based creative team and stakeholders in the process of answering briefs, and set the bar for the art of crafting an effective pitch.
• Partner with marketing leads on the development of creative strategy for custom programs.
• Lead the creative team from pitch through production of disruptive multi-channel campaigns.
• Lead creative team brainstorms and work hands-on with your team to create compelling and effective proposals and presentations.
• Manage and direct a team of creatives, cultivating growth opportunities and new ways of working in a complex organization.
• Pitch creative concepts directly to clients, and develop ideas that fit within the provided budgets and strategic objectives.
• Collaborate closely with strategy, consumer, marketing, talent booking, editorial and production teams in the orchestration of complex campaigns.
• Provide strategic insights to the development of creative concepts and build inventive content and experiential solutions utilizing relevant and emerging platforms/formats.
• Ensure Condé Nast Commercial Creative ideas authentically balance the voices of our editorial brands with that of our advertising partners.
• Work closely with the Global VP, Creative on the development and communication of the creative strategy and global positioning of Condé Nast Commercial Creative and robust global programs originating in the U.S.
• Serve as a key creative lead on set and ensure productions deliver to Condé Nast and client standards/expectations.
• Nurture relationships with global cross-functional teams within the revenue organization, and bring an inspiring commercial perspective when collaborating with editorial teams at Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork and The New Yorker.
• Continually elevate creative output and enforce a healthy creative process while managing the team's bandwidth and resourcing.

Benefits

• Generous employee benefits package
• Discretionary bonus compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Industry: Publishing Industries