Assistant Creative Director - Dallas, United States - Muse Consultants

Description

Muse Consultants is seeking an Assistant Creative Director for our boutique Agency in Dallas, TX. Our growing agency seeks a passionate creative and digital-first leader to inspire innovative work and solutions. The ideal candidate has a creative and collaborative mindset, thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a team player with a "can-do attitude", and has attention to detail while building relationships within the team and with our clients.

The Assistant Creative Director will oversee all content creation specified within the client strategy. This includes photography for all clients, assisting the Founder with on-site creative direction, creating eye-catching graphic designs for social media, social feed design planning, email marketing designs, and helping produce engaging video content.

Key Responsibilities:

STRATEGY

• Work with account managers and the founder to develop a high-level social media creative strategy for clients that is aligned with client brand storytelling.
• Lead content strategy and planning for monthly photo and video shoots, harnessing brand design and social media strategy.
• Proactively explore social media landscape and creative methods to inspire/elevate work so it is highly differentiated, unique to the industry, and creates impact and action.

CREATION

• Continually present concepts, ideas, and completed work internally and to clients.
• Design visually appealing graphics for client social campaigns and email campaigns.
• Propose ideas for photoshoots to inspire cohesive storytelling.
• Develop a mood board for each client photoshoot.
• Produce fresh work/photos that translate ideas into compelling social media experiences.
• Plan client feed design in correlation with the monthly content calendar.

MANAGEMENT

• Assist with leading team and founder during on-site client photoshoots.
• Be adaptable to quickly changing situations on set.
• Manage and approve all client content to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Oversee production of content creation including graphics, GIFS, videos, environmental photography, and lifestyle photography.
• Ensure that each piece of content developed aligns with brand strategy, guidelines, and story.
• Schedule and track client photoshoots/hours to be respectful of the client's time.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of Agency or related experience.
• Experience leading and creating integrated campaigns from inception to execution.
• Proven experience with concept development and social media creativity.
• Excellent Communication skills; ability to articulate strategy and vision to clients and internal teams.
• Ability to self-manage and work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to think out of the box and be solution-driven.
• Extreme attention to detail.
• Exceptional time management skills.
• Proactive vs. reactive attitude.
• Knowledge of Lightroom, Canva, and video editing apps.