Group Creative Director

The Group Creative Director – Brand is responsible for overseeing multiple assigned portfolios and service lines as well as the mentorship and development of the brand team creatives. The Group Creative Director provides strategic and innovative creative direction and guidance to internal, vended, and partner creative resources and production partners. Must have strategic understanding of the creative role in marketing, combining business and aesthetic goals in developing new and effective approaches to complex design problems, turning ideas into tangible form. Should be comfortable working within established brand guidelines while continuing to find new and interesting ways to express the brand within those guidelines. This role will be a hands-on, working creative, in addition to managing projects, teams, and service lines.

This position is a combination of remote and occasional onsite work to support business needs. Individual must live within driving distance of the Mayo Clinic Rochester campus. 

This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship. We will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position. Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

• 15 years of relevant experience in design, advertising, or a related industry.
• 5 years of supervisory experience in a creative position.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, Master’s Degree advantageous.
• An established portfolio of elevated design concepts demonstrating expertise in a range of creative mediums and large integrated campaigns.
• Previous experience in digital, video, rich media, motion, photography art direction, emerging media, and other creative and communications disciplines required, including audio/sound.
• Agency experience strongly preferred

Additional Qualifications: 

• Group Creative Director – Brand must be a strategic thinker, and capable doer. Must be self-motivated, and adept at managing their own workload and maintaining awareness of the workloads of the greater team. Must be able to advance multiple projects simultaneously and deliver within the designated timelines. This role will be a hands-on, working creative, in addition to managing projects, teams, and service lines. Must have a proven history of managing teams and projects.
• Must have experience managing accounts in excess of 5M, and capable of directing 6-10 accounts or service lines simultaneously. Must be able to maintain excellent relationships and thoughtful rapport with stakeholders from each group. Must be a thought-leader with the ability to evangelize and sell brand concepts from initiation to completion and have the ability to pivot quickly while keeping goals front and center. Must be versed in big brand theory. Must have strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Must possess team growing and building skills including hands-on mentorship, setting and enforcing high design and performance expectations, and driving the appropriate and personalized professional development of all team members. Must have a desire to mentor, offer guidance and encouragement for individual development, and create a learning environment.
• Should be comfortable working within established brand guidelines while continuing to find new and interesting ways to express the brand within those guidelines. Must understand and defend the importance of brand consistency. Should have a wide personal frame of reference in areas of design, culture, media, and arts, and have a confident, dynamic, highly creative vision. 
• Must be a consistent, accountable team player who leads by positive example insuring solid chemistry, and has zero ego or attitude. Requires a driven work ethic, a responsibility to the brand, and a desire to contribute to the collaborative culture at Mayo Clinic. Must have a passion for creative innovation, and a demonstrated ability to drive new ideas and bring in new concepts or methodologies and/or efficiencies. Being a nice person is non-negotiable.

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