Associate Creative Director

Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment - Newark, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Newark, NJ

About the position

The Associate Creative Director is a pivotal role within the Creative Services & Marketing team, responsible for leading a dynamic group of creatives in the development of marketing assets for the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center brands. This position focuses on brand development, concept ideation, design, and print production, ensuring high-quality deliverables across various channels including digital, social, TV, and print. The role requires strong leadership, organizational skills, and a passion for sports and entertainment.

Responsibilities

• Be a main contributor on creative initiatives, including brand identity and logo development, team campaign development, event development, presentation development, sales driving activations, in-game and arena experiences, apparel design, digital advertising and social engagement.
• Collaborate with the broader marketing team to infuse creativity and creative problem solving into various aspects of marketing.
• Conceptualize and develop big and innovative creative ideas that can live across multiple channels and platforms.
• Lead all Direct Reports across all properties to ensure creative executions meet or exceed predetermined objectives and strategies, based on creative briefs.
• Oversee and manage the print production department to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Serve as Brand Ambassador communicating proper logo usage and brand standards to both internal and external clients.
• Grow the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center brands via creative marketing & design leadership, innovative concepts, tactics & maintaining guidelines & tools.
• Provide quality assurance over all creative deliverables.
• Contribute to the development of the Creative Team's culture and quality design standards.
• Provide oversight and elevate brand photography to maintain a compelling library of brand assets.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 7-9 years of experience in an advertising agency, marketing firm, or design agency.
• Experience producing TV, Radio, Print, OOH, Digital/Social, & interactive design solutions.
• Management experience, leading an internal design studio or small creative team.
• Highly proficient in: Photoshop, InDesign, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator. Keynote, motion graphics, and copywriting skills a plus.
• A well-rounded portfolio of conceptual work, with strong design, color balance, photography, logo and typography skills.
• Self-starter personality with enthusiastic, 'can do' attitude in accepting work/new challenges.
• Ability to respond to a brief with a strategic creative solution that can be translated across channels.
• Proven experience overseeing ideas from inception to launch, and through production.
• Ability to take feedback and input and develop solutions that maintain the integrity of the ideas.
• Ability to easily articulate design decisions and provide rationale.
• History of self-initiated projects.
• Understands user-experience design and content strategy.
• Robust understanding of the design principles to driving results in an online environment.
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple departments.
• Ability to lead cross-functionally.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience and passion for sports and entertainment industry preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in typography.
• Motion graphics skills.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave