Creative Director - Duluth, United States - 1406 Consulting

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Job Description

Job DescriptionAbout Us:
1406 Consulting is a dynamic and rapidly growing Diamond HubSpot partner agency dedicated to helping businesses achieve their full potential. Our team of experts leverages cutting-edge technology, including HubSpot, to empower our clients and drive their success. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced sales business development and HubSpot solutions consultant to join our team. Our team members all work remotely and we actively foster communication and collaboration to maintain a strong community atmosphere and supportive company culture.

Job Description:
We're looking for a motivated Creative Director to partner with our clients and help lead creative initiatives. You'll be an instrumental part of a growing team, mentoring in-house graphic designers and content creators, and producing high profile work of your own. The ideal candidate will have held Creative Director or Senior Art Director positions at a digital agency. You'll also partner with the VP of Creative Services and CEO on pitches, continuing to build a portfolio of sales and marketing campaign, social media, and branding work for the agency.
Our ideal candidate will have a big picture strategic vision and a forward-looking skill set. This hands-on position will lead and work on everything under the design and creative content umbrella. Our company is a fast-growing HubSpot Diamond Partner and this is a great opportunity to learn, grow, and build your professional career at an accelerated pace within a very team-oriented organization.
This is a remote work-from-home position for a full-time candidate based in the United States. We provide company-paid medical insurance, a 401k with company matching, and a healthy amount of paid time off and company holidays.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be a member of the management team and play a key role in developing and directing the execution of marketing strategies and campaigns (primarily digital) for our clients, to realize their overall goals, brand presence, and marketing lead generation.
• Virtually all of our clients utilize HubSpot in some fashion, so it's a requirement to learn the platform's capabilities firsthand and how to include it effectively in marketing strategies and campaign assets/content implementation.
• Manage and lead our content marketing and creative design team, ensuring clarity in assignments, requirements, project schedules, and delivery plans.
• Provide clear creative direction and productive, timely feedback to your teams
• Deliver strong, sound, unexpected concepts and inspire the same among your team
• Work collaboratively across disciplines to make sure the best work gets done
• Articulate and present conceptual and directional choices for marketing initiatives
• Manage and mentor your creative and content team members and actively promote continual creative improvement
• Build productive, trusting relationships with clients
• Serve as creative lead, directing all phases of creative work from concept through production
• Play a lead role in new business strategies and business development efforts
• Collaborate with Account Strategists on research, campaign creation, and optimization
• Translate strategic recommendations concerning digital experiences into actionable items
• Managing production deadlines of various project deliverables from the design phase through production.
• Manage fulfillment of special requests related to graphic design services on an as assigned/as needed basis.
• Operate as a creative, self-motivated team player willing to take the lead and develop forward-thinking solutions when required.
• Utilize strong presentation skills when needed to present in small or large group settings, including to our clients, agency staff or other external audiences

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge of what goes into successful marketing campaigns and brand development
• Experience managing creative development with proven mentoring, supervisory and team-building skills
• Any website building/maintenance experience on HubSpot CMS, with HTML, react and CSS expertise is a major plus.
• Must have a strong style and voice in order to execute, lead or develop a wide range of creative concepts and compelling content.
• Must initiate and build relationships both internally and externally with minimal supervision/direction from management.
• Direct experience with lead generation marketing strategy creation and execution for clients in a variety of industries
• Proven experience working with brands in various industries a plus.
• Experience in design for high-end websites in a variety of industries, with e-commerce design experience = serious bonus points
• Knowledge and experience with Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Knowledge and experience with figma and understand how to design, layout and build prototypes
• Knowledge of following would be a strong advantage: video editing (any software) and animation
• Superior visual literacy and expert understanding of design principles, illustration, and photography.
• Ability to design and communicate clearly for a variety of media, and capacity to learn them quickly.
• Must be a creative, self-motivated team player willing to take the lead to develop forward-thinking solutions and mentor others along the way.
• 5+ years experience in a creative leadership role (at least 3+ years digital, social or ad agency experience)
• Excellent social media engagement, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work remotely with a professional work space during standard business hours

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary with performance-based commissions and bonuses.
• Comprehensive healthcare and benefits package, including company-paid employee medical insurance
• Company 401k plan with matching up to 4% upon 6 months employment eligibility
• A healthy amount of paid time off and paid company holidays
• Company-paid employee life insurance
• Professional development opportunities in a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on client success and company growth.

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