We are looking for a talented design and art director to join a leading and category disruptive Global Beauty Company as the Head of Art & Design. Amazing opportunity to be part of a highly collaborative, innovative, and truly Global team that is just a little bit out of the ordinary (in a very good way).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design new project and concept ideation and validation and present to the Creative Director for approval
- Establish plans, organize projects and tasks with Creative Director & project coordinator while productively managing team workloads
- Manage and maintain alignment of objectives across other departments involved in projects
- Collaborate with Creative Director on budgeting and manage cost allocation for projects, to understand and lead cost-saving action plans for the creative team
- Work in partnership with Head of Retail Design for creation of stores for new brands
- Generate design presentations for Creative Director for presentations to C-suite
- Initiate and develop new ideas for current and new brands, including logo, packaging, containers, brand identity, mood boards etc.
- Accomplish efficiently and creatively all project requirements by organizing, training, assigning, scheduling, and mentoring the creative team
- Protect, ensure, and implement the company’s design standards are followed by the creatives through production, productivity, design quality, and customers expectation standards
- Responsible for the resolution of operational and brand difficulties, identify solutions, and present solutions to the Creative Director
- Review and approve design production factors by leading, checking, understanding objectives, presentation approach, style approval, and techniques required for completing projects
- Supervise designers and ensure that execution of projects is done effectively and up to quality standards while maintaining open communication channels with designers on projects
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud Software’s
- Passion for creativity & visual design and ability to conceptualize out-of-the box ideas
- Understanding of design strategy and analytics to interpret needs and data, invent, and develop creative design solutions
- Strong knowledge of photography composition, video composition, motion composition
- Capable in leadership, project management and teamwork
- Solid organization and time management skills, detail oriented and ability to focus and work efficiently in a demanding, fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal, communication skills both written and oral and ability to work with all levels of staff and management
- 4+ years of people management and /or leadership experience is required
- Relevant education OR equivalent work experience in creative design and/or project management is an asset