Associate Creative Director

The Via Agency - Portland, ME

Full-time - Mid Level

Portland, ME

About the position

The Associate Creative Director at The VIA Group LLC is a full-time role focused on generating creative concepts and strategies for advertising campaigns. This position involves managing creative teams, overseeing client projects, and ensuring that client objectives are met through effective project management and creative guidance. The role requires collaboration with various team members and clients, as well as the presentation of final creative concepts.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing client projects and providing creative guidance and project management.
• Collaborating with the creative team and overseeing junior creative team members.
• Providing feedback to collaborators on current projects and productions.
• Delegating projects to in-house designers and overseeing deliverables such as storyboards, websites, or product packaging.
• Delivering the presentation of final creative concepts to clients.
• Ensuring all projects meet budgets, timelines, brand guidelines, and agency standards of creative excellence.
• Managing client relationships from pitch and contract engagement through to final execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts in Design, Fine Art, Advertising, or related field involving visual design.
• Five years of professional design experience involving visual communication and/or visual media.
• Research and analytical skills, project management, problem solving, client interactions, and design presentations to clients.
• At least one year of ad agency experience involving visual design and creation of digital assets.
• Experience in advertising project management with team collaboration and handling multiple deadline projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• Hybrid work option allowing remote work one day per week, provided the employee resides within a reasonable commuting distance of the Portland, ME office.