Creative Lead

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role:

As a creative lead on our Brand Studio team at Faire, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of creatives helping bring the Faire brand to life. In this role, you’ll help shape Faire’s brand across marketing and product experiences, tackling conceptual and executional projects that span across brand campaigns, product launches, content marketing, paid ads, social and internal channels and so forth. Working with team members across design, product, and marketing, you’ll strive to communicate our brand and mission to our customers and craft the experiences that make Faire, Faire. 

We’re looking for a highly collaborative designer/art director and conceptual leader that thinks strategically and holistically about brand experience. A prolific innovator who thrives on delivering elegant and unorthodox creative solutions that are rooted in strategy and tap into culture. A conceptual thinker and a skillful designer that can translate strategy into ideas and creative concepts but is also able to sweat the details and get really serious about the craft and quality of the execution. A storyteller that knows how to tell authentic stories through design, photography, film and illustration.

Your background would be in brand design or art direction. You would be able to closely collaborate with copywriters, illustrators, editors and motion designers as part of the creative process. You would be a proven collaborator who can drive work from brief to launch, and partner directly with the in-house team as well as direct freelancers and external partners/agencies  and advocate for excellent brand storytelling and masterful craft/quality.

This role sits within the Brand Studio team who is a multidisciplinary group of creatives dedicated to build and evolve the Faire brand and bring it to life through a myriad of channels and experiences. Brand Studio sits within Faire’s larger design organization, which includes product designers, content designers, and design researchers.

As a Creative Lead, you will:

• You’ll partner closely with Marketing, Product and design partners to conceptualize and execute creative solutions to complex business problems
• Work closely with the Brand Studio team, partnering with brand designers, writers and Design Ops to develop world-class creative solutions for brand campaigns, product launches, events, and more, while ensuring cohesive execution across all brand touchpoints
• Be a key partner to the Brand Marketing team in developing and evolving our brand creative.
• Collaborate with the international Marketing team on building creative for a global brand with a local approach.
• Conceptualize and execute a wide-range of branded experiences, global and regional campaigns, paid ads and growth marketing, in-product marketing, product launches and social content.
• Foster ideation and creative thinking within the team

Qualifications:

• 6+ years as a designer or art director executing world-class creative work. Whether at an agency or in-house, you’ve tackled a wide range of projects and executions.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills. Ability to convey creative concepts in a way that inspires stakeholders and audiences.
• Experience with film, photography and production is a huge plus!
• Ability to operate at different altitudes, from a big picture strategic POV to a focused and detailed oriented approach.
• A proven record of building integrated campaigns or designed for various marketing channels, with an ability to uphold the highest standards of quality.
• A collaborative approach. You’re a great partner to other designers/creatives and your cross-functional teammates.
• A growth mindset. You’re o