EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM) is the world's largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 15 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one and half million subscribers to create nearly 34 million family trees that contain nearly 9 billion profiles, make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
With over 1,000 employees around the world, we are committed to hiring the very best talent. We are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and we offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry.com.
Job Description:
The Executive Creative Director is charged with providing overall creative leadership for the company. This is a high profile role that touches everything from Branding, to advertising, events to corporate videos. The emphasis for this role is on leadership with a strong creative vision.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility for creating, building and maintaining the company's creative reputation.
- Works with Creative leads to develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance our brand strategy.
- Ensure compliance to all creative department standards and manage all communication with senior management and the executive team.
- Foster positive relationships between creative department and other functional areas. Encourage strong collaborative relationships with project owners and other stakeholders within and outside the organization.
- Generate and promote awareness and communication of creative successes both internally and externally in order to articulate a clear creative vision internally and externally.
- Constantly work to improve communication and processes necessary for optimum creative output.
- Provide evaluation, mentorship, and counsel to direct reports. In conjunction with Creative Directors, determine assignments, promotions, incentives applicable to creative managers.
- Create the optimum structure to provide effective, efficient development of creative assets.
- Manage the professional growth of Creative Directors and Associate Creative Directors and mentor these leads to develop and grow their own teams.
- Manage key administrative and financial aspects of the creative department.
Required Skills and Professional Attributes:
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Advertising, Marketing, and/or Journalism, Graphic Arts, Design and Communications.
- Current Creative Director/Senior Creative Director with a minimum of 15+ years creative management experience, strong credentials in copywriting and/or art direction, and a positive track record in the development of successful, market-moving creative ideas. Strong strategic instincts.
- Excellent communication mentoring, counseling, presentation and interpersonal skills and above all, leadership skills
- Solid experience developing and evolving brand identity and positioning, ideally for a consumer brand. Online subscription business experience a plus
- Experience working in a direct-response media environment across multiple channel executions, includes but not limited to DR TV, print, display, email, mobile, OOH and direct mail
- Smart, analytical, creative, driven - "Gets it" and is able to deliver results quickly
- Self-starter, highly organized, and able to work well with individuals at all levels
- Top level business management, interpersonal, and facilitation skills
- Able to form strong work teams, create positive and supportive culture
- Driven to succeed by the company's core mission to help people discover, preserve and share their family history.
Ancestry.com continues its market leading leadership in the "family history" area. We offer a highly competitive compensation package with benefits as well as stock options in our fast growing firm. Select a firm that offers you outstanding challenge, innovative technology, and certainly working with bright, motivated, folks. Please send your information to Herbnj@gmail.com and make your career one for history.
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