SketchDeck

Art Director

• Partner with Business Development and Project Managers to build and deliver creative pitches
• Lead overall design, brand, and creative vision within accounts
• Lead high-level creative projects
• Mentor the team and support projects of all sizes and scopes
• Partner with Project Managers on project scoping and estimates
• Support larger corporate accounts with shifting priorities and time-sensitive deadlines
• Lead kick-off calls, creative presentations, and client problem-solving meetings
• Brainstorm live during client calls and adapt creative recommendations
• Shift between accounts and tasks while reassessing priorities and communicating tradeoffs
• Identify projects requiring high-level strategic input versus production-focused leadership
• Coordinate project needs, timelines, team skills, and creative staff availability
• Set up briefs and provide creative direction and inspiration to designers
• Define team workflow and scope of work with Project Managers
• Lead communication from brainstorm through final production
• Provide creative reviews and feedback
• Assign project teams and build collaborative, strategy-led teams
• Drive design excellence and push creative boundaries
• Onboard new client accounts and establish brand pages and workflow integration
• Build client relationships and understand client goals, brand guidelines, and preferences
• Maintain and improve account-level design quality
• Train designers and Brand Managers on brands, tools, templates, Adobe CC libraries, and brand assets
• Identify opportunities to expand services within accounts
• Develop and present proposals and pitches to prospective clients
• Support Business Development with creative concepts for new accounts
• Elevate design through accessible tools, training, and design inspiration
• Assist with talent management and recruiting
• Escalate issues and opportunities to the Director of Design
• Lead internal projects such as portfolio work, designer assessments, trainings, and interviews
• Maintain effective communication across teams and set clear goals

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Design Director

• Lead creative strategy and direction for select brand, positioning and campaign programs
• Lead creative strategy for key accounts, generating impactful ideas and strategies and turning them into reality
• Partner with Design Directors, Content Strategists and account teams so creative strategy and visual concepts develop from the same idea
• Bring strategic thinking to win new business
• Lead client discovery to understand business goals, audiences and underlying problems
• Conduct audience, market and competitor research and turn findings into actionable insights
• Develop brand positioning, value propositions, brand architecture, brand character and strategic creative concepts
• Build messaging frameworks and brand narratives and guide their execution across touchpoints
• Shape campaign and content strategy, including audiences, key messages and channels
• Write creative briefs
• Guide designers through concept exploration and development and lead design teams when project scope requires
• Present strategies and recommendations to clients, provide creative reviews and resolve feedback
• Identify opportunities to expand client accounts
• Partner with Project Managers on scoping and estimates
• Define creative approach, deliverables, timeframe and resourcing for pitches and large opportunities
• Lead strategic thinking in pitches and present with pitch teams
• Help grow existing accounts into larger brand strategy and campaign work
• Develop proposals demonstrating SketchDeck's strategic capabilities
• Contribute to Creative Impact team growth and run trainings
• Build decks and materials for brand strategy services
• Contribute to internal communications, portfolio and case studies
• Improve team collaboration

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