Associate Creative Director, Art

Publicis Groupe - Philadelphia, PA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Philadelphia, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Associate Creative Director (ACD) at Digitas Health leads creative efforts on multiple accounts, ensuring high-quality output and client satisfaction. This role involves managing creative teams, developing concepts, and collaborating with account management to meet client needs. The ACD is responsible for both hands-on creative work and team leadership, fostering a productive and inspiring environment for creativity.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and creative inspiration
• Work with ACD, Copy to produce standout concepts and campaigns
• Take on appropriate projects and own them, start to finish
• Manage and work independently, upholding deadlines
• Estimate art hours
• Participate in client meetings
• Lead concept presentations
• Attend market research
• Share responsibility with planning to shape strategic branding
• Assign creative teams best suited for each project based on ability and workload
• Manage workloads to maximize productivity of the art team, ensuring that everyone is busy and billable
• Work with art, editorial and project management departments to ensure that deadlines and budgets are met
• Provide written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, and ongoing feedback throughout the year (written when requested)
• Identify and Interview prospective creative candidates
• Become the creative voice for your accounts
• Develop good relationships with your clients
• Work with account management to grow our business at existing clients
• Work with creative management to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the creative group
• Lead the creative teams in development of concepts and execution of all projects
• Assure that all designers and creatives are trained and, where needed, mentored to maintain the standards and expectations of the agency and the client, and to meet their own career goals
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand their products and marketing challenges and are responsive to the strategic and creative needs
• Represent the agency at client meetings and social events

Requirements

• 10+ years' agency experience
• BA degree (Advertising, Communications, Fine Arts or related field)
• Experience creative ability and judgment
• Successful client contact experience
• Ability to work with account management
• Presentation skills
• Experience managing creative teams and multiple accounts
• Commitment to producing the very best work

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401K
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off