Creative Director

Remuneration:	cost-to-company
Location:	Johannesburg
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Own transport required:	Yes
Travel requirement:	Occasional
Type:	Contract
Reference:	#CreativeDirector2501
Company:	Lucky Hustle

Lucky Hustle (www.luckyhustle.co.za) is looking for an awesome, amazing and awe-inspiring Creative Director. We need someone proficient across various industries and mediums, with specific expertise in digital design with senior art direction history. We’re looking for a dynamic individual with strong leadership skills to oversee creative deliverables and lead a team of designers and animators to create standout award-worthy work

Why join Lucky Hustle?

• Creative playground: Dive into a space where your creativity can run wild and your innovative ideas come to life.
• Team vibes: Collaborate with a tight-knit crew of marketing pros and senior leaders who are all about support and success.
• Work/life balance: Work in a space that nurtures the idea of humanity in a refreshing agency environment that prioritises its people as much as the work.

Role

• Use creative expertise (specifically art direction, animation and design) to craft problem-solving creative ideas.
• Build relationships with existing and potential clients.
• Adding value to the brands in order to guide clients and creative teams to produce top-quality ideas, execution and results.

Responsibilities

• Assist fellow CD in building the creative reputation of Lucky Hustle
• Co-lead, alongside the fellow CD, the creative team in producing and crafting great concepts, art direction and copy, in response to creative briefs of existing or potential clients.
• Offering creative guidance by using design and art direction insight to craft beautiful work for clients.
• Ensuring all of Lucky Hustle’s creative output consistently meets the highest quality standards.
• Help decode core brand problems and be able to solve them effectively and creatively.
• Present and take ownership of creative work internally and externally in a clear, professional and impactful manner.
• Maintain good relations with various members of the teams.
• Work closely with traffic, strategy and account management to manage your creative teams’ expectations and continuously look out for opportunities to better the work.
• Be a team player who gets stuck in the work with your team. Become a leader people work with and not someone they work for.
• Use strategy, skill and articulation to help a creative team execute ideas and client briefs.
• Actively participate in new business pitches and business development when required.
• To inspire, coach and guide your creative teams for continuous improvement of individual and collective performance.

Required

• Strong art direction, animation and design skills (N.B)
• Outstanding creative ability
• A strong grasp of digital creative as well as ATL executions
• A desire to listen, learn and adapt in a high-pressure role
• Conceptual thinker with strong design ability
• Management skills leading and developing other creatives
• Ability to direct and nurture creative resources and build a culture that enables inclusivity
• Presentation skills
• Strategically minded
• Decisive
• Ability to articulate themselves in a clear, simple and convincing way
• Technical understanding of TV and content production, edits, sound, music, voice and direction
• Impeccable attention to detail

Experience required

• Five+ years as a senior art director
• Two+ years as a creative director in a creative agency/company

 Please do not apply if you do not have art direction experience.

Posted on 13 Jan 15:41, Closing date 14 Mar