Executive Creative Director
Description
About Us:
Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more at Sitecore.com.
Sitecore’s foundation is our diverse group of passionate, smart, innovative, and collaborative individuals located across four continents and in over 25 countries. Having a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills is what makes us the company we are today. The Sitecore values are what drive and unite us across the globe.
About the Role:
The Executive Creative Director (ECD) is a hands-on leader responsible for shaping the creative identity of the company within the digital landscape, ensuring that Sitecore resonates with audiences and setting the brand apart in the competitive software industry. As the head of the creative team, the ECD collaborates with stakeholders, other executives, and leaders to determine how the company should be represented to the public.
This role demands a unique blend of experience, natural creative flair, and hands-on involvement that sits at the center of our evolving brand, giving you the opportunity to help determine our brand identity through our next exciting stage of growth. If you are an innovative and collaborative leader with a track record of building brands and creative teams, this role is where you want to be!
Please include a link to your portfolio with your application.
What You Will Do:
- Creative Strategy Development: Develop/evolve the overall creative strategy for the brand, ensuring alignment with the company’s mission, vision, and GTM strategy.
- Team Leadership and Management: Oversee a team of creative professionals across the US and Europe, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment setting clear goals, and inspiring creativity. Lead agency resources as an extension of the internal team.
- Internal Client Collaboration: Work closely with internal clients to understand their needs and requirements. Translate client briefs into original creative ideas. Ensure that creative concepts resonate with brand and goals.
- Concept Development and Execution: As a hands-on creative you must be able to conceive and implement creative concepts, guidelines, and strategies across various media channels. Additionally, you’ll play a pivotal role in supervising and actively contributing to the execution of creative campaigns, website and event branding, executive presentations, and video content, while offering precise and actionable feedback.
- Brand Reputation, Promotion, and Management: Work with campaign teams to provide unique, strategic solutions to enhance the company’s brand reputation. Partner with other departments and the Sitecore ecosystem on correct implementation of the brand.
- Project and budget oversight: Work with creative operations manager to manage multiple projects while maintaining quality and balancing resources and budgets. Anticipate potential issues and devise creative solutions.
What You Need to Succeed:
- 10+ years' experience as a creative team leader and track record of inspiring teams. Experience in an in-house creative team and B2B software industry experience preferred.
- Creative Vision and the ability to translate it into compelling campaigns and brand experiences.
- Demonstrated work across all events, video, digital, omni-channel advertising, campaigns, brand, and more.
- Strategic thinking and problem solving to align creative efforts with business goals.
- Excellent collaboration skills to effectively work with internal clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication skills and experience communicating effectively at all levels of the organization to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively.
- Industry and software knowledge: Staying informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and keeping up to date on Adobe Suite, etc.
What Will Set You Apart:
- A strong portfolio showcasing past work that demonstrates creativity, strategic thinking, versatility, and successful campaigns and events.
- Strong leadership skills and a track record of inspiring teams and supporting them to deliver business success.
- Empathy and ability to understand internal client needs and audience perspectives.
- Adaptability and the ability to shift priorities as needed to support the business.
Why You Should Click ‘Apply’:
You matter; Marketing is key to our success! We are tapping into an exciting market opportunity that is still very much in its infancy and feel. Growth for us means growth for you and your career.
Great team and company culture! You can find out more about our company culture, a typical day in the Marketing team and our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, on our YouTube Channel. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, Sitecore has been recognized for award-winning Culture by Comparably.
After an offer is made and accepted, E-verify will be utilized to establish your identity and employment eligibility as required by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other local legally protected characteristic.
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