Job description
America’s Favorite Jeweler, Ross-Simons (a division of Luxury Brand Holdings) is seeking an Associate Creative Director- Print & Brand Image (based in our Cranston, RI office) within The Creative Group, our diverse and talented in-house agency. Our team, along with our portfolio of brands are going through an exciting period of expansion and transformation. The Associate Creative Director has a key leadership role to help continue our transformation for the LBH portfolio of brands; Ross Simons, Luxury Estate, RS-Pure, and Canaria. This person reports to the Vice President of Creative working collaboratively to ideate and implement design concepts and creative campaigns for catalogs, print advertising, print collateral, outdoor advertising, retail, and packaging.
This role will help lead efforts to define the overall brand image and guidelines including the ideation and implementation of advertising campaigns and seasonal themes that define creative direction and brand image across a variety of consumer touchpoints. This person is both a ‘hands-on designer and art director’ as well as direct a team of designers and art directors to make conceptual and aesthetic decisions while creating layouts, mockups and prototypes to effectively illustrate their design ideas to other members of the team or senior management.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and Manage Design Team.
- Recruit, train and coach direct reports to support and foster their individual development.
- Take actions that ensure a cohesive and collaborative Print and Brand Image team that meets the highest level of creative excellence.
- Participate in identifying needs, planning, coordinating, and executing training and development of the team.
- Model account service excellence and best practices that influence the broader Creative Group.
- Drive the delivery of high level of creative development and innovation.
- Lead the ideation and collaborative development of creative projects within The Creative Group, across business units, and with other internal and external resources to deliver world-class, compelling art direction, design, and overall creative work that is on-time, on-budget, and on-strategy.
- Apply ‘lessons learned’ and continuously improve the way that work is developed and delivered – champion innovation with a customer lense on creative solutions.
- Allocate resources appropriately to projects, understanding work in the pipeline and anticipating needs and requests.
- Manage and develop relationships with business partners.
- Build strong “trusted advisor” relationships with collaborators within The Creative Group and other business partners across the organization to ensure that initiatives meet business objectives and deadlines.
- Build rapport and respect with project stakeholders to impact and influence outcomes beneficial to the business.
- Anticipate requests and understand and fulfill information needs of Marketing and Merchandizing partners.
- Be able to negotiate compromises, have challenging conversations, and manage up/across/down within and across teams in a positive and collaborative spirit.
- Play leadership role in facilitating trend insights, and innovation to the broader team.
Experience and Required Qualifications
- BA Degree in design, photography, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of related industry experience, with 3+ years of experience as an Art Director managing a team
- Experience collaborating with photographers and art directing still life, beauty, jewelry, or similar types of photoshoots
- Ability to be a “hands on designer” as well as lead the creative process from ideation to launch, ensuring excellence, consistency and quality of design throughout.
- Related work experience in the luxury, fashion or beauty industries is preferred
- Excellent sense of aesthetic design and a keen eye for visual hierarchy and composition
- Strong knowledge of Adobe CC
- Drive for innovation and proactively seeks knowledge in trends and emerging technologies
- Meticulous attention to detail and an ongoing commitment to achieving high quality results
- Clear and effective communication skills in articulating concepts and rationales
- Excellent organizational skills, a natural collaborator, but can work well independently
LBH is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D
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