Creative Director Jobs

The Creative Director at DMI is a dynamic leader with a passion for defining innovative and original ideas that combine the power of strategy, creativity, and technology to help consumers connect with brands and organizations. The Creative Director executes on a global scale; inspiring clients and internal teams with their creative vision, customer focus, and technological knowledge in order to deliver experiences that drive results. This is a senior role for creative thinkers and proven leaders.

Creative Vision

• Collaborate and consult with other disciplines and practice leads across DMI.
• Inspire, support, and guide creative teams to explore what’s possible and execute on solutions that meet agency standards and drive real business results—while ensuring timeliness.
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.
• Ensure that all of the client’s creative output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand.
• Provide a strong creative vision and inspire the entire team to rally behind it.
• Inspire a culture of creativity with clients, cross-functional departments, and the DMI organization as a whole by championing the value of creativity and the work of our team.
• Distill client needs into refined digital creative ideas and solutions.
• Pitch ideas confidently and present their creative vision clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of their creative team.

Team Management

• Ability to form and maintain open, honest, and trusting relationships.
• Provide inspiration, support, and guidance to help team members develop their skills and talents.
• Build an environment for the creative team to work in and oversee their ideas and projects.
• Identify new skill sets based on geographic market demand and provide training or hiring plans to fill those needs.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of Creative and Design Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Designers, Content Creators, and Video Editors/Animators, UI Designer, Design System Managers, and Creative Technologists.
• Take responsibility for the creative philosophy and the standard of output across the team.
• Attract and recruit exceptional talent to expand the team.

Business Development

• Scope projects to allow for the appropriate time needed to deliver work that meets our standards.
• Lead business development pursuits with heavy involvement in pre-sales activities, RFI/RFP and proactive bids, pitching new clients, and representing DMI to prospects in new business meetings.
• Build out new service offerings based on the industry, client demands, and team skill set.

Thought Leadership

• Craft and share thought leadership through presentations, white papers, and blog posts.
• Stay on top of trends across the digital marketing and design industries, and promote innovative solutions for our team and across DMI.

• 3+ years of leadership experience—preferably with top tier creative awards and recognition.
• 10+ years of integrated digital agency and design experience.

• Mastery of either Art Direction or Design.
• Demonstrated success in managing, leading, and guiding a team to produce exceptional work that gets results for clients.
• Strong digital portfolio of work demonstrating the ability to bring to life innovative ideas and experiences.

Location: Remote (United States)

• Convenience/Concierge - Virtual visits through health insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discount tickets for movies, travel and many other items to provide convenience.
• Wellness – Healthcare benefits, Wellness programs, Flu Shots, Biometric screenings, on-site lactation rooms provide employees with several wellness options.
• Development – Annual performance management, continuing education and tuition assistance, internal job opportunities along with career enrichment and advancement to help each employee with their professional and personal development.
• Community – Blood drives, volunteering opportunities, Holiday parties, summer picnics, Tech Chef, Octoberfest just to name a few ways DMI comes together as a community.
• Recognition – Great achievements do not go unnoticed by DMI through Annual Awards ceremony, service anniversaries, peer-to-peer acknowledgement through Give-A-Wow, employee referral bonuses.
• Financial – Generous 401k match for both pre-tax and post-tax (ROTH) contributions along with financial wellness education, EAP, Life Insurance and Disability help provide financial stability for each DMI employee.