Senior Creative Director - Art Director

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

The Senior Creative Director (Art) works with a Sr. CD (Copy) partner to create, mold, and push creative ideas for the Verizon Creative Marketing Group.

Their attention to detail and art direction craft is paramount, but they also need to partner directly with marketing stakeholders and think strategically to help solve creative briefs. Their primary responsibility is to be the key integrators of our omnichannel marketing communications. They are also tasked with creating innovative concepts that amplify our strategy to make an impact with the consumer.

• Provides creative direction to integrate campaign work across brand channels, and coaching while partnering with staff to accomplish creative objectives.
• Provides creative quality control over concepts and execution.
• Helps to set a tone of cooperation within the creative group and across the organization; promotes a “be of service” solution-oriented mentality across the creative team.
• Builds a collective team vision and defines goals and objectives.
• Gives the team proper recognition and credit for their contributions.

The ideal candidate:

• Directs complex, large-scale project activities and effectively leads and manages work of the creative team.
• Leads execution of Tier 1 creative work on select projects including development of sketches/prototypes and imagery selection or headlines and copy in our brand channels.
• Provides brand guidance and direction to ensure consistent alignment with brand voice standards.
• Motivates the team to deliver a consistently high-level of quality as evaluated by stakeholders.
• Guides the workload, development, and growth of direct reports.

Where you'll be working:

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience leading and managing medium to large teams.
• In-house or agency experience.
• Experience using appropriate software: G-Suite, MS Word.
• A portfolio.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Design, English, Journalism, or a related field.
• Demonstrated creative conceptualization skills.
• Ten or more years of relevant work experience; with five as an Assistant Creative Director or above.
• Big-picture thinking. Demonstrated ability to create world-class concepts to address business issues and construct great case studies.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage differing viewpoints so the final product remains true to the objective.
• Proven leadership skills to maximize team talents.
• Hands-on experience in at least one creative discipline: design, copywriting, video production.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge in industry-standard software and tools such as the Adobe Creative Cloud, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, project management software, and online market research.
• Demonstrates experience in brand development, product launches as well as traditional and emerging multichannel marketing. Experience on tech brands is even better.
• Leads and mentors team in the ideation process leveraging research, analytics and brand insights.
• Develops creative strategies to address marketing and business objectives.
• Articulates the creative rationale that drives the concept’s execution and tactics.
• Directs team as brand advocates, but also encourages and develops new interpretations of the brand standards and out-of-the-box approaches to grow the verbal and visual identity of the brand to meet ever expanding company needs.
• Leads with passion that energizes the team to over-deliver against expectations and results in high employee engagement and overall job satisfaction.
• Celebrates team and individual successes and creates a safe environment for constructive feedback.
• Anticipates problems and sees how a problem and its solution will affect other projects, people or processes.
• Understands that all projects require attention to detail so that work is on-time, on-budget and on-strategy.
• Delegates properly and does not get caught up in being a production or process manager.
• Expects the team to push new thinking and will challenge cliché or rerun ideas.
• Confidently and diplomatically stewards new ideas through the organization on behalf of the team.
• Knows how to be persuasive and/or negotiate when selling ideas.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical or religious reasons).