Associate Creative Director - Art

Associate Creative Director

At Decoded, Associate Creative Directors are one part support workers, one part supervisors. They assist Creative Directors with creative direction, organizing the narrative around ideas and function as a working teammate. ACDs will supervise teams and staff on multiple projects. The Associate Creative Director is a leader in their group, a creative juggernaut, and an air traffic controller all in one.

Roles And Responsibilities

Although specific positions (Art) will dictate an ACD's undertakings, there are several core responsibilities common to the role at Decoded.

Concepts

ACDs will work alongside the Creative Director to develop concepts and directions for creative ideas, campaigns, executions and positionings. This will require them to make conceptual and stylistic decisions. Creating comps, ad lobs and prototypes may be required to illustrate their idea to other members of the team or management. This work can be done in conjunction with teams they are delegating to or working with.

Managing Projects

Decoded ACDs will oversee multiple projects at once. This will include managing creative teams, abiding by timelines, overseeing direction, ensuring all deadlines are met. They will also act as quality control for their projects by reviewing and editing their team's work before it is seen by the larger agency group or clients.

Client Presentations & Presentations

The ACD's management of any given project gives them the best purview to craft the initial story around how an idea is sold to clients. It's expected that the ACD will organize the work coming in from teams and create presentation decks for review both with those teams and their managers.

Staying Curious

ACDs are muses as much as they are teachers. Staying up on the latest trends and social media fads is important for them to help guide the conversation with their teams, but it's only the start. An encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of influences will make your work more effective. You should demonstrate curiosity for the world and the things people create within it, whether it's a new platform, a tiktok, art, music, film, lit, greatest hits of advertising, or new, emerging thought leadership on media, tech, and creativity. To best serve their team, ACDs should continually dig into strategies, platforms, and technologies that might serve our creative goals..

Skills

Associate Creative Directors should have enough humility to listen to others and enough confidence to stand behind their ideas. They must be reliable and enjoy challenging and fast-paced work, while also being extremely motivated and having strong leadership skills.

Qualifications

• At least 6-8 years experience in a creative field with some experience managing teams, managing up, managing projects, and working production.
• Patient and detail-oriented
• Ability to lead projects from concept to completion.
• Collaborative with strategic, brand, creative, production and media partners
• A well-developed creative point of view, and the ability to identify strong ideas and executions.
• Be an inspirational leader with the ability to guide diverse teams.
• The ability to translate ideas for internal teams or clients, through decks and presentations.
• Proven track record in creating excellent work. Proof of ability to develop great ideas and up-level the work with their craft.
• Finger on the pulse of creative cultures and technologies.
• Virtuoso knowledge of their own discipline, with a cursory knowledge of those that fall outside.

Compensation

The anticipated salary range for this position is $140,000- $165,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography.

Our Benefits & Perks

• Career Training and learning opportunities
• Competitive Salaries
• Relaxed Flexible Hybrid working environment
• Work From Home, WiFi & Mobile Stipend
• 3% 401k employer match from the start
• Unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays
• Generous Fully Paid Parental leave
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependent(s)

About The Company

Decoded, now part of Media.Monks and S4Capital, is a full-funnel marketing, advertising and design company creating breakthrough campaigns with unrivaled performance. Challenging convention, it took some of the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations and commerce. Decoded services global clients like T-Mobile, Intuit, Visa, CareerBuilder and SC Johnson from its offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Decoded Advertising is a new kind of agency, built from the ground up by award winning creatives, top data scientists and cutting-edge media people willing to defect from the old agency model to create smarter work. Decoded has the first truly integrated creative, tech and media process designed to drive better performance for clients by uncovering the levers that produce powerful ideas and drive real media performance. A spirit of curiosity, relentless creativity and data informed decision making define our culture and people.

In everything you do, you will be data driven at heart, leveraging core statistical principles to help us separate the signal from the noise, and ensure your strategic decisions are backed with analytical rigor.

Values

MISFITS WELCOME.

We don't want more of us, we need more of you. Because building something new requires new inputs, perspectives, personalities, skill sets. Helmets available upon request.

STAY CURIOUS.

Adventures don't start with answers. We move forward by questioning, wondering and learning. We ask "why" and "what if." Together, we'll discover what's next for creativity, media and marketing.

BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL.

Innovation requires experimentation. Experimentation relishes failure. With a bias toward action, leaps of faith and even some discomfort, chase down ideas, try new things – we got you.

IDEAS OVER EGOS.

In order to uncover what works, we need to make. A lot. So we put ideas above all else: titles, egos, pedigree be damned. We all work in service of great ideas.

TAKE PRIDE IN EVERYTHING YOU.

This is our company. Everything you do represents all of us. Obsess the details, sweat the charts, invest in your ideas. Let's build something to be proud of, piece by piece.