Creative Director - Santa Clara, CA - Hybrid
Description
- Proactively evolve Gigamon’s global brand as a strategic visionary
- Consistently evolve a brand in a way that tightly aligns to changing business and marketing requirements.
- Manage the creative process from concept to completion.
- Translate marketing objectives into clear creative strategies and deliverables.
- Manage a creative staff of internal designers and/or external design agencies in the development and production of all marketing assets, from collateral to the web, events, and advertising
- Develop and manage the company’s brand and creative guidelines and standards and ensure that they are consistently met across the company’s internal and external communications channels
- Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to creative teams
- Remain actively involved in hiring, training, and managing creative staff and agencies
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in creative design preferably in B2B technology, with at least 4 years serving as a creative lead
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and Experience Manager tools and workflows
- Proven track record designing and leading teams that deliver award-winning work
- Experience performing and/or managing range of creative roles, including graphic design, art direction, presentation design, and copywriting
- Expert knowledge of the business side of design
- Proven skill in developing and delivering well-designed web sites and online marketing campaigns
- International experience working with global teams
- You take initiative in serving as the company’s brand ambassador, assuring the brand aligns to the future direction of the organization
- You are a mediator, a multitasker, and a motivator who gets creative team members to work together efficiently and consistently produce quality deliverables, meet deadlines and get results
- You know the ins and outs of marketing and creative workflows and have significant expertise in developing high impact work
- Strong understanding of industry trends and technology
- Excellent communication, problem solving, and project management skills
- Ability to inspire creativity and work well with diverse personalities
- Deep understanding of online marketing and user-centered design
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