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Creative Director (XM) Hybrid, 2 days/onsite Full-time perm Salary: $150-170K + bonus Our agency client is seeking a Creative Director with a proven track record in creating memorable and meaningful experiences that drive business results. You have worked in experiential marketing (XM) and the live events industry and understand how to bring experiences to life in a fast paced agency environment. This is not a conceptual leadership role our client is looking for a hands on creative leader who still designs, still crafts, and understands what it truly takes to bring bold ideas into the real world. Key Responsibilities: 1. Hands-on Creative Leader (The Product): you elevate our creative product by introducing innovative, smart and results driven solutions to clients. You lead the department by ensuring high quality creative output that is innovative and on-brand for clients and our agency. Youre experienced and knowledgeable about XM & Conference You push yourself and the whole company to bring fresh thinking and innovation to our creative product, keeping up with trends and technology Youre responsive, jumping in where necessary, roll up your sleeves with an understanding of where to prioritize key clients and budgets Clients respect and seek out your opinion; strong ability to link business strategy & KPIs back to creative recommendations You can articulate and present a compelling case to clients for buying our creative solutions. You demonstrate a strong ability to sell our creative solutions 2. Managing Creative Team (The People): you are a strong creative people leader who brings out the best in your team. They enjoy working for you feel engaged and excited to be here under your leadership. Theyre learning and growing from you through ongoing critical thinking and analysis of their work getting feedback in real time and growing their skills They are given opportunities to watch you and learn from you client meetings, internal meetings, presentations, how you work, etc. Your team feels set up for success. You give them the information they need to be successful theyre not an island. 3. Managing the Creative Department (The Operations): you understand how to effectively and efficiently operate an agency creative department. Demonstrate an understanding of the companys strategic business plans and proactively make recommendations and prioritize your time and the department accordingly Demonstrate an ability to manage the business side of creative, i.e. pricing, timing, resourcing, reconciliation Identify operational issues and recommend solutions including process, software, training Set Department goals/KPIs and help to ensure the department runs profitably and efficiently 4. Closely collaborating with other Senior Leaders (The Team): you understand that youre a key member of a multifunctional team and you ensure that other team members feel trust, support and collaboration when working with you. Excellent communication skills - ensuring other leaders feel confident and in-the loop about recommendations to the creative product Excellent time management team feels confident on delivery of creative portion of any program so they can manage client deliverables accordingly Collaboration youre open minded and seek input and feedback on a continuous basis to optimize our creative product and ensure the creative team is a welcome partner at our agency 5. Strong internal creative leadership (The Brand): you are the brand steward of our agency and lead the evolution of our brand through an understanding of our unique IP and culture. Proactively lead the look and feel of our corporate branding, working collaboratively with senior leaders Recommend & oversee major tentpole initiatives including retreats, training and internal branding initiatives Lead roll out of any branding work in a timely and cost-effective manner Other Performance Metrics: Executive Leadership Skills You demonstrate the necessary range of leadership skills to successfully inspire and lead teams to achieve great results, including: Self-Management Organizational Management People Management Actively Engages with Team Engages in Courageous Conversation Performance Management Flexibility Communication Skills Professional Development Corporate Strategic Goals Contribution to overall corporate success New Business Development Business Innovation Cross Functional collaboration Thought leadership