Sr. Director, Creative

Location: New York, NY 

Reports to: VP, Creative & Brand Marketing

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a search engine for market intelligence that transforms how decisions are made by the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions. Leveraging AI and NLP technology, AlphaSense enables knowledge professionals to extract insights in seconds from thousands of disparate data sources, including company filings, event transcripts, news and trade journals, and equity research. Founded in 2011 and backed by investors including Innovation Endeavors and Soros Fund Management, AlphaSense is on a mission to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

About the Team:
AlphaSense Product Development Organization is composed of great talent across Product, User Experience & Engineering – a team of creative technologists who drive the innovation, execution & delivery of our product each & every day. 

At our core, we're here as a partner to the broader business – which we do by identifying customer problems, understanding market needs, & devising ways to deliver world class user experiences.

About the Role: 

As a Director of Creative, you’ll take a lead role in developing a rapidly evolving brand. The work ranges from driving excitement in AlphaSense’s products to staying engaged with our existing members. 

You bring creative vision to the discipline and are as capable of taking a systems-level approach to your work as you are of creating a single, pixel-perfect execution. You understand how to explore and define brand guidelines while building discipline, rigor and documentation of the brand. A strong passion for conceptual work that spans advertising, brand design and consulting when the brand intersects with the product is a necessity for this position. Your work can translate across digital, print,  video & experiential —  and you toggle between these media easily.

You thrive in a collaborative environment. This role will ask you to craft creative briefs based on business and strategic marketing inputs that you and the broader team and agency partners will execute upon to make award winning ideas come alive. You’ll be required to present work & communicate your thought process with clarity & organization. The ability to give and receive feedback as well as implement the work is also a strong attribute needed for this job.

Who You Are:

• 12+ years of creative experience in advertising & creative agencies and/or in-house teams
• A background in creating brand and product campaign work as well as experience building identity systems & bringing them to life across industries & categories, spanning a variety of touchpoints.
• Ability to communicate your creative ideas through compelling presentations including detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal & analytical skills
• Unwavering attention to detail & a strong sense of ownership
• Proven ability to work cross-team, lead the design process, & synthesize feedback & input from stakeholders
• The ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, & multitask
• The ability to work across organizational boundaries to define, manage, & prioritize work

What You’ll Do: 

• Provide visual creative leadership in the concept & execution of all marketing assets including LinkedIn, Google Ads, Influencer Partnerships, Partnership Executions, OOH, Direct Mail, Content Marketing & more.
• Define our brand while documenting and crafting guidelines so the business can scale — maintaining an incredible attention to detail when featuring our logo, typefaces, grids, colors, vector artwork, etc.
• See all design projects through from concept to execution/production (ability to create print-ready artwork files to send to the printer, ability to animate social ads, etc.)
• Collaborate internally to develop brand content for digital and physical customer experiences to create fully immersive brand experiences.
• Help evolve & improve our creative process, ensuring efficiency & while creating outstanding creative outputs.
• Articulate strategic positions to influence and challenge partners with new creative thinking through storytelling.
• Drive impact across multiple cross-product initiatives with a complex group of stakeholders.
• Highly proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects

 

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all indiv