Associate Creative Director

  • Full-time

Company Description

Publicis Groupe is the third largest communications group in the world, a leader in marketing, communication and digital business transformation. As a platform at the intersection of marketing and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology, Publicis Groupe is built on The Power of One. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000 talents across four Solution hubs: creative with Publicis Communications (Publicis Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBH, Marcel, Fallon, MSL, Prodigious), media services with Publicis Media (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Blue 449, Performics, Digitas), digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient and health & wellness communications with Publicis Health. Publicis Groupe’s agencies are present in over 100 countries around the world. Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, the “father of French advertising”, Publicis Groupe is today led by its third CEO in its history, Arthur Sadoun, Chairman & CEO. Maurice Lévy, who led the company for 30 years until June 2017, is today the Chairman of the Groupe’s Supervisory Board. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/publicisgroupe Twitter: @PublicisGroupe Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/publicisgroupe Website: www.publicisgroupe.com

Job Description

­         Fulfills leadership tasks. Specifically, leads and directs the development and execution of short term (project specific) and long term (account specific) creative strategies

­         Ensures creative scope, schedule and budget are accurate

­         Develops and signs-off on creative estimates and ensures high quality, profitable execution of creative deliverables

­         Develops and executes account growth strategies with account core team members to meet account goals set by the engagement lead

­         Manages the creative staff, as well as needs to review staff.

­         Maintains an awareness of status and project deliverables of all discipline group members’ project work.

­         Facilitates and orchestrates contact between account creative team and client.

­         Participates constructively in inter-department and cross-service line communications.

­         Contributes to the evolution and maintenance of each creative discipline workflow.

Qualifications

­         About 7 years of professional experience encompassing the following: A minimum of four years as a senior in at least two of the following areas: user experience design, multimedia, advertising, interactive advertising, game interface design, Internet design, marketing, publishing, broadcast, film or television

­         Has degree in and training in area of discipline expertise

­         Has successfully directed/ managed multidisciplinary creative teams in the production of Internet and multimedia products, and has worked in multi-disciplinary teams that included developers, artists, designers and writers

­         Strong creative and conceptual vision for multimedia, and the ability to execute high quality integrated interactive communications against strategic business objectives

­         Is an expert in graphic design including classic typography, composition, color theory, etc

­         Strong comprehension of information architecture disciplines and methodologies

­         Mastery of project concept creation, site architecture, user-interface specification, functionality specification and interactive design.

­         Strong understanding of front-end interactive design solutions for back-end data systems. Working knowledge of capabilities of different platforms and browsers, and their design constraints on the Web

­         Experience with the constraints and features of interaction and social media in China

­         Successful experiences working with and selling to clients

­         Ability to direct creative teams including user experience designers, visual designers, and writers

­         Strong time management and creative resource management capabilities

­         Has demonstrated ability to direct and multi-task effectively under pressure.