Creative Director

Hello, Blue Hour

Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared, remixed, and talked about. We create at the intersection of culture, content, creators, and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand.  

Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles and backed by Horizon Media, we connect creativity and media to drive real business impact.

Job Summary 

The Creative team is responsible for the output of content we create for our brand partners. Combining creator/influencer practices and creative practices allows us to imprint community-driven creativity into every post, partnership, campaign or video we create.   

The role of the Creative Director within Blue Hour Studios is to power its creative competency from idea to execution. The Creative Director is an avant-garde leader, and robust creative thinker. They will conceive and pitch original branded concepts across formats (social, event, partnerships, community, OOH and occasionally, more legacy channels). They will present polished, strategic creative in collaboration with their Creative team members, and the wider Blue Hour team (Account, Strategy, Influencer). They will lead client workshops, brainstorms and tissue sessions. They will ensure that Blue Hour Studios creative is premium and front line and will provide input across a wide variety of creative projects and clients. This person will provide input on productions and design projects and ensure the premium quality of all creative output.  

Supervisory Responsibilities 

• Responsible for managing junior members of the creative team  

• Provides actionable, constructive, and palatable written and verbal feedback as necessary  

• Keeps team up to date with new processes, tools, ideas, and innovative executions 

• Conducts performance reviews and manages expectations of their staff 

• Sets expectations for growth potential for junior creatives 

Who You Are 

You’re hands on, culturally switched on and insatiably curious. You’re a ‘tastemaker,’ an identifiable leader. You live on the bleeding edge of real world and online culture and know how to bring others ‘in’ on it. You’re passionate about social media, branded social content, influencers/creators and therein for opportunities for brands. You care about how the algorithms work and think deeply about what makes good content. 

You can express ideas through powerful, concise verbal and written storytelling paired with well-curated visuals that sell it.  You know about the next hyped