Group Creative Director (GCD, Sr. Director)

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

Comcast is looking for a Group Creative Director (GCD, D2), conceptual, to join our team as a creative leader. The GCD is a proven leader, effective communicator, and an exceptional motivator as well as a public face for the agency. The position provides leadership across channels and the opportunity to partner with senior leadership to push our clients as well as the teams they are accountable for.

As the GCD, you will work alongside the Executive Creative Director, Creative Directors & Creatives across the network to craft the future of Comcast and its products. You will be at the forefront of creating a culture obsessed with great, beautifully crafted, innovation-first work.

You lead with a passion for content, inventive solutions, and an authentic curiosity about how it applies to global culture and technology. Core to your skills is the ability to lead, grow, mentor, and motivate a team.

Job Description

Here’s what you should know if you want to be a Group Creative Director:

On any given day you might:

• Bring fresh and groundbreaking conceptual thinking in partnership with IMC to create transformative work
• Push creative thinking to new and unprecedented places – but also have a plan to make it work
• Implement the overarching creative direction and vision for the Comcast account(s) and/or team(s) as well as bring proactive leadership to the entire agency
• Apply strong working knowledge of the fundamentals of new and standard social and digital platforms and technologies to briefs and proactive opportunities
• Skillfully produce work across a variety of platforms and mediums: social, digital, film, OOH, and emerging technologies.
• Provide leadership through building the vision and mission of the agency
• Manage multiple projects, partners, and budgets within deadlines
• Determine assignments, evaluations, and incentives for the creative department
• Ensure the growth of individual team members
• Responsible for shaping a general direction of the work that The Lab produces for any given partner
• Build strong relationships with multi-levels of clients, and deepen their knowledge of interactive marketing

The ideal person:

• Seeking candidates with a proven track record of success in major advertising awards, specifically those who have received accolades from Cannes Lions, The One Show, or Clio Awards.
• Has a robust background in all forms of creative marketing communications
• Is a strong leader and has experience running large teams 
• Has experience across storytelling and content, traditional and nontraditional marketing experiences 

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Copywriting, Creative Directing, Creativity, Leadership, People Management