Associate Creative Director
WongDoody is looking for an Associate Creative Director (ACD), based out of our beautiful New York City Studio, to help drive growth and creative excellence for us and our clients. With a team of strategists, creatives, designers and production practitioners, you’ll be pitching and developing integrated campaigns, digital experiences and design driven projects across a broad spectrum of brands.
You are a boots-on-the-ground contributor with your team and you have a strong portfolio across delivery channels and client verticals. You inspire and motivate your teams and colleagues to do their best work. You are an experienced presenter, comfortable in front of senior-level clients, leading client meetings through all stages of work from pitch to creative development through production with your exceptional conceptual skills. This position requires you to navigate being a creator, maker and a manager. You will actively contribute to the work while leading teams with love and compassion with a strong desire to elevate the work by elevating those around you. This role reports directly to the ECD, North America.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Be a creative thinker and driver of pitches, ideating and delivering best in class creative work across a broad spectrum of brands
- A creative collaborator for existing clients
- Mentor and guide teams from ideation to the final product to ensure quality and style meet WongDoody’s standards and exceed client’s strategies and objectives
- Recognize the creative opportunity with any client or industry to help tackle client goals and challenge and maximizing business opportunities
- Successfully produce work across all mediums and platforms
- Lead teams through creative concept phase and guide the work to maintain integrity through production
- Manage creative teams, reviewing and providing clear feedback on work and guiding their career development
- Guiding the work with a strong eye toward thoughtful design and animation language, laddering up to brand tone and consistenc
WHAT YOU'RE LIKE
- You love and breathe creative ideas, digital thinking and innovation
- You’re never finished. You have a body of work that makes people laugh and cry and a tiny bit jealous all at the same time
- You thrive in a think/make environment with the ability to multi-task across multiple assignments in a deadline-driven, always evolving environment
- You like people – you do your best work when actively collaborating and guiding/empowering others to help improve in their craft or experience
WHAT YOU’VE GOT
- You are an established and industry-respected creative with 10+ years of experience that can equally boast both award-winning and globally recognized work
- Prior experience creating effective, breakthrough work in a digital agency, production company, innovation driven creative business. Read: You are not traditional
- Proven skills that include the ability to lead, grow, mentor, and motivate a team with diverse perspectives. With a people-first mindset you are a natural mentor who continues to contribute alongside the teams you lead
- Proven client relationship building skills
- Experienced to collaborate with production early on to make sure your ideas can be brought to life
TO APPLY: For full consideration please upload both a resume and cover letter.
PERKS
We’ll pay you to come work at WongDoody, because we’re generous like that. But on top of your paycheck, you’ll receive a whole lotta benefits to help keep you healthy, secure and balanced. You’ll get great health insurance, 401K company match, extended holidays, flexible summer hours, and volunteer time off to name a few.
WongDoody is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We are intentional about creating a space which not only celebrates and embraces, but also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
We are currently, yet cautiously, planning to return to our offices in a hybrid capacity in 2022 and look forward to enjoying the benefits of in person collaboration, communication, and culture.
ABOUT US
WongDoody is a human experience company, powered by Infosys with offices across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and India. Since our founding in 1993, we have won hundreds of global awards for creativity and marketing effectiveness, while building a culture that consistently makes WongDoody one of the “Best Places to Work”. We recognize that our people and our culture are paramount to our success.
WongDoody US has offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Providence, Houston and Richardson. While we are working mostly remotely still, we look forward to being able to safely return to our studios in the near future to enjoy the benefits of in person collaboration, communication and culture.
We are a team of fun, fearless, ego-less, values-driven and collaborative problem-solvers distributed around the world with one goal in mind – creating better human experiences. Human experiences are the touch points that make brands and technology matter to customers. We use strategy, creativity, design and data to develop engaging experiences that transform businesses, and work with Infosys to achieve global scale at speed.
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