Regional Creative Director

Acbj - Charlotte, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Charlotte, NC

About the position

The Regional Creative Director will oversee a team of Senior Designers and Designers across multiple ACBJ markets, ensuring effective design and communication processes. This role involves providing feedback, coaching, and mediating relationships between designers and local markets while managing design projects and participating in planning meetings.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of Senior Designers and Designers across 10+ ACBJ markets.
• Enforce procedures, deadlines, templates, and file storage with designers and local teams.
• Provide design and communication feedback regularly to the design team, including editing work and coaching designers on process and workflow.
• Work with editing teams to ensure alignment between local newsrooms and the design team.
• Backfill team members when they are on vacation or on leave.
• Mediate issues and foster relationships between designers, local markets, and other departments.
• Design the entirety of one ACBJ market weekly and at least one Book of Lists.
• Attend and participate in planning meetings.
• Identify and attend training opportunities.
• Take on other duties assigned by the Senior Director of Visual Design as needed.

Requirements

• Experience managing a team and/or projects, with a proven track record of coaching, editing, proactiveness, and problem-solving.
• Media design experience and expertise in Adobe CC design tools — InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.
• Background and experience in design, layout, and information graphics.
• Understanding of local editing teams and their daily operations.
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, cross-group collaboration, and planning skills with strict attention to details, process, and deadlines.