Associate Creative Director

Workrise is hiring an Associate Creative Director (ACD) who will be responsible for guiding the continued growth and development of Workrise brand execution across touchpoints ranging from campaigns to content, sales enablement, workrise.com, and beyond. Our ideal candidate for this role will bring demonstrated experience as a collaborative in-the-trenches leader who can sell a vision, write the brief, empower the teams they work with to do their best work, and roll up their sleeves when duty calls. This role in non-exempt will report to the Director of Brand, Creative, and External Communications, partner closely with teams across the business, and manage a blend of contract resources and agency partners.
For Workrise, success means revolutionizing the way the largest industry in the world works day-in, day-out. Beyond an exceptional eye for nuance in storytelling, copy, and design, successful candidates will bring the courage to take risks and challenge the status quo, and a hunger to deeply understand customer mindsets, as well as business and industry dynamics in a complex and rapidly evolving space.
All applicants must submit a portfolio to be considered for this role.
What you'll be doing:
Creative Execution:

• Research - gathering learnings from previous campaigns and initiatives; reading up on customer challenges, industry issues, and trends
• Building briefs, project plans, and proposing budgets
• Reviewing and guiding work across contractors and agency teams
• Packaging and shipping completed work
• Managing delivery against requests for day-today business needs (logo requests, business card requests, investor decks, etc)

Agency and Contractor Management:

• Sourcing and day-to-day management of the creative partners Workrise relies on to support creative execution
• Managing procurement, budgets, timelines, and invoicing for all partners, as well as payroll for hourly contractors
• Providing the resources, documentation, assets, and day-to-day guidance agency partners and contractors need to be successful

Stakeholder Management:

• Prioritization and expectation setting - ensuring we are working on the highest-impact work, are set up to deliver on-time and on-budget, and communicating when we can't take something on
• Building alignment with stakeholders on problem definition, creative strategy, scoping, prioritization, and budget implications (where applicable)
• Running reviews, socializing work with relevant stakeholders to bring folks along
• Securing approvals

Brand Maintenance and Strategic Evolution:

• Maintaining internal resources like the Brand Center and our deck templates
• System maintenance - Optimization of existing solutions for incremental improvement; solving for new execution needs where we don't have precedent, and new solutions are needed, in a manner that consistent with the brand as a whole
• Continued evolution - continually evolving what Workrise looks, sounds, and feels like, to re-enforce our brand strategy and improve our effectiveness wherever and whenever we show up in the world

Experience and Education Requirements:

• A well of experience in creative storytelling and building compelling brand narratives - you can direct the work, but also write the script if you have to
• A diverse portfolio of executions spanning integrated campaign work (OOH, CTV/TV, Social, Digital), as well as focused work in at least one of the following disciplines: brand systems, content design, illustration, or motion design
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a proven ability to establish a shared creative vision within a team, manage creatives individually, and speak to the strategy and rationale behind the work in a manner that cross functional stakeholders can understand
• A deep commitment to creative excellence and innovation, always seeking to push the boundaries of what is possible, while delivering work that consistently outperforms benchmarks
• Proficiency with the tools of the trade: Figma, Adobe CS, Frame.io, etc.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a meticulous attention to detail and a focus on delivering superior results
• Experience building and managing to budgets
• Test-and-learn mentality - you can speak to not just coming up with the killer idea, but how to evaluate performance and optimize work once it is in market
• Growth mentality - you are a self starter, always looking for feedback and opportunities to hone your craft
• A high degree of comfort navigating ambiguity, and the willingness to adapt and flex as needs change
• Strong organizational, project management and interpersonal communication skills

Additional experience preferred, but not required:

• B2B brand experience (either as clients of an agency, or in-house)
• Experience building campaigns for companies operating in the energy industry, or other high-complexity spaces
• Strategy chops (brand, campaign, or both)
• Direct people management experience
• Strong network of creatives to draw on for project-based or contract work

Essential Job Functions:

• Regular, on-time attendance
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to use office computer programs such as e-mail, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Ability to manipulate office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone