Creative Lead

ABOUT MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT:

Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company behind some of the most popular kids’ titles in the world. Moonbug’s line-up includes global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Oddbods, Little Angel, My Magic Pet Morphle, Supa Strikas, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Gecko’s Garage, ARPO and many more. Moonbug’s shows are currently available in 32 languages and feature on more than 150 platforms globally, including YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Super RTL, BBC iPlayer, HBO Max, Tencent, Youku and Roku. The company’s portfolio currently stands at 29

IPs and 100+ brand partners. Moonbug is a subsidiary of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. By bringing together elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the current market and beyond. Candle is run by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

The role

Moonbug is looking for Creative Lead with 8+ years experience to join our Brand and Marketing team in Los Angleles.

We are looking for a candidate with a strong design and art direction background, a great communicator who can help bring our brand strategy and campaigns to life. Someone who is full of great ideas and enthusiasm and has extensive experience in brand and marketing.

Reporting into both the Head of Brand and the Brand Marketing Creative Director, and in collaboration with Brand Marketing Directors you will work on the creative development of our brands and the campaigns and content that promotes them – including visual identity development, key art creation, promos, digital marketing, social media, campaigns, events and more. Raising the creative bar for our brands across all touchpoints.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on a huge range of projects and help shape and grow much-loved kids’ brands. The role is suited to a proactive self-starter who’s comfortable getting stuck in, and is confident and articulate at presenting ideas. Experience within the entertainment sector would be a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to creative strategy for all brands
• Employ and evolve existing brand guidelines
• Working closely with the Creative Director to help lead all Brand and Marketing creative
• Concept and lead large scale creative projects
• Brief designers to ensure they understand the goals and deadlines for their work, inspiring them to produce excellent work and bringing them back on track when required
• Help the Creative Director build and develop a multi-disciplinary creative team and act a mentor to junior members, offering them coaching, training and feedback as necessary
• Produce outstanding omni-channel design and marketing solutions
• Create and oversee digital assets and promos for partners including Netflix, Hulu and HBOMax

• Ability to lead projects from concept to finish, including integrated advertising campaigns, brand identity guidelines, and social media campaigns
• Maintain highest quality standards of the brand, this individual should be a champion for overall brand consistency, while having an eye towards the future, foreseeing ways to build differentiation and flexibility into the brand without diluting the brand

• Develop responses to creative briefs
• Participate in partner-facing meetings and calls
• Present brand and creative work to internal and external teams
• Experienced in delivering creative feedback to internal and external teams
• To help develop and enforce processes and workflow across individual projects and the studio as a whole.

Requirements

• Ability to lead the development of high-quality creative work that pushes Moonbug brands forward
• An ability to work with a global team, across time zones
• Excellent design, layout, and typography skills
• Someone highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator), Microsoft Office, Slack, Keynote, Frame.i.o, Dropbox
• A passion for Entertainment - experience in Kid’s Media is an advantage
• Ability to articulate and sell creative to senior leadership across the organization and beyond
• A team player ready to collaborate with Marketing Directors, Designers, Editors, Producers
• Experience managing staff, providing creative guidance, art direction in a fast-paced environment
• Must be flexible, and have the ability to manage multiple projects at on