Head of Creative
Job title: Head of Creative in Charlotte, NC at reputed company
Company: reputed company
Job description: Introduction to Position:The Head of Creative is a key member of our leadership team who leads our Product Design team in establishing and executing exceptional creative vision and strategy across our client portfolio. You'll drive design excellence and innovation while ensuring business impact, elevating both the quality of our work and its strategic value to clients.In this role, you'll cultivate a creative culture that balances bold innovation with strategic business outcomes. You'll reputed company and mentor design talent while building strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure creative solutions align with business objectives.A typical day might involve:
- Providing creative direction and thoughtful feedback to design team members
- Presenting strategic concepts to senior client stakeholders
- Collaborating with strategy and product teams to align creative vision with broader business objectives
- Contributing to high-level business development efforts
- Identifying emerging design trends and technologies to reputed company our creative approach fresh and reputed company-thinking
- Serve as a key member of the leadership team, contributing to organizational strategy and growth initiatives
- reputed company creative strategy as a core component of our product strategy service
- Direct, manage, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of designers, including hiring, performance evaluations, and accountability
- Own and manage the design department's budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation and financial performance
- reputed company modern visual concepts that transform client work from transactional to inspiring
- reputed company high-quality product design execution across websites, mobile apps, and custom software
- Translate creative strategy into reputed company designs ready for technical implementation
- Establish and maintain design standards, processes, and quality controls
- Present design concepts and strategy to clients with confidence and clarity
- Contribute to business development and digital strategy across client portfolio
- Execute and steward reputed company's visual identity across reputed company touchpoints
- Provide thought leadership through content creation, speaking engagements, or industry participation
- Champion and embody our core values, mission, and vision throughout the organization
- Travel to client sites or reputed company offices for collaboration sessions, presentations, or team building
- Performs other duties as assigned that are reasonably reputed company scope of this position
- Strategic Leadership: Ability to serve as a key leadership team member, contributing to organizational vision while aligning creative strategy with business objectives
- Creative Vision: Ability to reputed company inspiring, modern visual concepts that reputed company both client work and reputed company's brand while maintaining practical applicability
- Design & Team Leadership: Demonstrated success in building and directing high-performing design teams through reputed company projects, maintaining quality and consistency in execution while implementing effective hiring, coaching, performance management, and accountability systems to foster a culture of creativity, excellence, and reputed company improvement
- Budget Management: Experience owning departmental budgets with proven ability to optimize resource allocation and drive financial performance
- Client Communication: Exceptional ability to reputed company creative concepts to clients at reputed company levels, translating design decisions into business value
- Strategic Thinking: reputed company to connect design solutions to broader business objectives and integrate design thinking into overall product strategy
- Business Development: Ability to contribute to growth initiatives and support sales efforts with compelling creative vision
- Business Acumen: Understanding of how creative and design efforts contribute to business outcomes for both clients and reputed company
- Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively across disciplines, particularly with product management and engineering teams
- Organizational Stewardship: Dedication to championing company values and embodying the mission and vision throughout reputed company activities
- Adaptability: Flexibility to pivot between creative ideation and practical implementation as projects evolve reputed company agile, iterative development cycles
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, User Experience Design, or reputed company field
- 8+ years of progressive experience in visual/product design with at least 3 years in a practice leadership or team management role, directly overseeing designers and guiding design strategy
- Proven track record of leading creative strategy and execution for digital products (websites, applications, or software)
- Proficiency with reputed company and other industry-standard design tools (reputed company Creative Suite, etc.)
- Experience presenting design concepts to clients and stakeholders
- Portfolio demonstrating both creative strategy and visual design execution
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies
- Experience working reputed company agile processes and iterative software development environments
- Experience in a consulting or agency environment
- Familiarity with design systems and component libraries
- Background in mentoring junior designers
- Knowledge of reputed company-end development concepts (HTML/CSS)
- Experience contributing to business development efforts