Creative Director Jobs

Job Summary
The Creative Director is responsible for leading all aspects of creative and design for marketing across all creative formats and channels globally. This role will be reporting to the Senior Director of Marketing. The primary objective is to build a strong creative team in Jabil and deliver excellent creative work in order to elevate the company and product brands in the market.

• Rapidly evolve the company/ product brand(s) for a company leading growth and innovation while defining a category
• Creatively enable an integrated marketing strategy, helping to position the work of the marketing and communication teams globally
• Define the creative strategy globally including how we collaborate with external agency partners
• Turn complex innovative technology into world-class design and creative that resonates with the target audience (both externally and internally)

Here's what you'll be working on:

• Influence the marketing strategy through creative and brand concepts and programs that enhance awareness of and preference for Jabil
• Own creative and design direction for all marketing materials including elevating brand/creative guidelines
• Produce stellar marketing materials that will be used by the Businesses, Functions, and Executive teams
• Lead and develop the Creative function
• Provide direction to partner agencies globally including copy writers, illustrators, animators, photographers, videographers, production designers, etc.
• Lead by example, balancing people management with hands-on design work
• Provide creative guidance and/or develop all types of creative (advertising, video, presentation, infographics, social post, etc) across all marketing channels including website, social media, digital, CRM and events
• Lead and motivate teams of designers

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Adapts solutions to fit the needs of clients and target audience.
• With limited direction, prioritizes, organizes, and schedules own work assignments and projects.
• As part of a team or independently, meets with internal clients to discuss their needs and interprets those needs into options and ultimately a final product
• Utilizes state of the art production tools to design, edit, and produce video, audio, and graphic material.
• Understands current color and design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and awareness of material costs and time limits that can impact a design.
• Prepares detailed storyboards showing sequence and timing of story development for appropriate projects
• Creates highly engaging visual and creative presentations for a variety of learning solutions.
• Conceptualizes, designs and creates graphics and animations for learning and development projects such as online learning, instructional aids, and instructional videos
• Creatively translates abstract concepts into effective visual and instructionally valid form in a variety of media.
• Communicates routinely with and manages expectations of all stakeholders, including Managers, subject-matter experts, and other business clients.
• Meets or exceeds customer expectations for quality, and cost and achieves all deliverable deadlines and/or provides rationale in advance about why the requested deadline is not achievable.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Performs artistic and technical work to develop professional high-quality graphic and media solutions that contribute to defined instructional objectives.
• Designs within company style guidelines for logo and color usage.
• Quickly analyzes and recommends solutions that accommodate technical requirements/ limitations
• Integrates strategic messages into effective visual communication

Knowledge Requirements

• Demonstrates initiative to research and learn new software and adapt to changes in technology.
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and Powerpoint) and e-mail skills required.
• Active listening, visualization skills, and creativity
• Capable of thinking innovatively, strategically and conceptually, collaborating when necessary to generate ideas and solve problems
• Must have strong design skills and be able to self-manage a project from concept to completion and work in concert with others.
• Experience with Wrike
• Proficient in Graphic Software such as After Effects, Illustrator, or Photoshop
• Able to adapt concepts that are applicable to whichever medium best serves the project.
• Able to work independently under tight deadlines and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
• Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships.
• Able to work well under pressure and adapt to ever-changing scenarios.

Education & Experience Requirements

• 10+ years experience in Graphic Design required.
• Knowledge of color theory, layout and graphic design principles, fontography, typography; principles and operation of the Internet; advanced video streaming and animation techniques;
• Or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience.
• Advanced coursework in multimedia, graphic design, and Web design is desirable
• A Bachelors degree, preferably in Fine Arts or Graphic Design, or any combination of education and training which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties and responsibilities as described.