Future opportunity-Creative Director (ECD), Midwest Region
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Job Description
RECRUITING FOR THE FUTURE
This posting is for a future job opportunity.
To support the needs of our clients, Avanade is actively recruiting and interviewing for the role outlined below, as we continue to build on another year of growth in our business. Now, with more than 60,000 employees around the globe, we are positioning our organization to effectively prepare for the future. What does this mean for you? We encourage you to apply and interview for this role without the need to decide now. This allows you to connect with leaders and hiring managers at a pace that works for you and when roles become available, you will be the first know.
Executive Creative Director, Midwest Region
Inspire and bring ideas to life
What is Avanade X?
Over Avanade's 20+ years, we've delivered the most intelligent, engaging, award-winning experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. As technology and human expectations evolve, we see incredible opportunities for customers, products, and workplaces—where imagination is the only limit.
Avanade X is our way to bring unconventional thinking, exceptional creativity, and our unparalleled engineering heritage to think big and make it real. Our vision of the future goes far beyond concepts to enable and deliver the impact our clients, their people, customers, and communities need.
We support each other with great work to push boundaries, connect technology with what matters to people first, and grow with our clients. If you feel this is a great fit for your path, we’d love to talk.
About the role
As an Executive Creative Director (ECD), you set the tone and raise the creative bar in your region. Your vision plays a critical part in real impact through innovative projects for some of the world’s top brands. Paired with the Area Executive Creative Director, you lead a talented multi-disciplinary team of creatives—other creative directors, designers, copy writers, content strategists, and UX designers—while closely collaborating across the Avanade Experiences team with technologists, analytics experts, product managers, client services and delivery team members. You provide guidance and mentorship to team members while providing creative work that sets new standards. You have extensive creative experience and work with different technologies and platforms. You’re a master at developing creative strategy and providing direction on multiple simultaneous projects, and willing to roll up your sleeves to help to push a project over the line. You're an excellent communicator able to sell hairy, complex ideas to different audiences and are just as comfortable with business design thinking as you are with art direction. As creative director, you work with senior partners across the business, helping to pitch, sell, manage, and deliver amazing creative work. You have a deep understanding of how creativity supports profitable business growth and proven experience bringing the wildest of ideas to life.
Responsibilities
Specifically, we can depend on you to:
Help to sell creative vision both internally and to clients
Work with the sales team to develop world class pitches, with a focus on story telling
Using insights, create experiences that translates into business opportunities and value
Conduct co-creation/ideation workshops with senior executive and C-level clients
Work with multi-disciplinary teams to define and deliver products across multiple platforms core to Avanade
Ensure that the regional creative team collaborates with all other business functions within and outside of the Region, consistently delivering an exceptional, unified end-to-end customer experience across stages, channels, and touchpoints in the customer journey
Build and manage a diverse and inclusive creative team with deep domain expertise
Encourage growth mindset, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and customer-orientation among the team
Oversee and review design deliverables; constantly up-level the creative output of the team
Oversee the coordination of offshore creative teams for project deliverables
Mentor direct reports and team members
Set objectives for the team that help to drive business performance
Some travel needed, will discuss in interviews
What you bring to the team
12+ years of relevant design experience
5+ years’ experience managing people and teams
Experience in narrative creation, storytelling, pitching, and selling innovative solutions for Fortune 100-1000 clientele
A bachelor's degree in design, graphic design, or a similar field, or the required equivalent experience. A master's degree in a related discipline is a plus.
An inspiring portfolio that demonstrates expertise in design principles and solutions
Extensive experience of visual design, foundations of UI design, layouts, graphics development, typography, color, and visual theories
Knowledge of customer experience and user experience disciplines, such as UX design, information architecture, research, usability, and content strategy
Expert knowledge in most top creative tools and platforms (Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, etc.), and experience with W3C HTML / XHTML, CSS is a plus
Experience working with cross-functional teams
Trained in digital design, web, and mobile development in an enterprise environment
Experience with B2B and B2C highly valued
Capable of understanding and communicating the technical feasibility of solutions
Able to work with technologists to translate design into deliverables
Ability to coach, motivate, grow, course-correct, and guide a team
Demonstrated history of working with external clients at the senior level (Director, VP)
Expert level written and verbal communication skills, including ability to comfortably present to the senior level of our clients (remote and public speaking)
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About Avanade
Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Every day, our 59,000 professionals in 26 countries make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.
We have been recognized as Microsoft’s Global SI Partner of the Year more than any other company. With the most Microsoft certifications (60,000+) and 18 (out of 18) Gold-level Microsoft competencies, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses grow and solve their toughest challenges.
We are a people first company, committed to providing an inclusive workplace where employees feel comfortable being their authentic selves. As a responsible business, we are building a sustainable world and helping people from underrepresented communities fulfil their potential.
Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at www.avanade.com.
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