As a Creative Engineering Director, you bring excellent visual problem solving & creative thinking to your team & onsite with clients. Fast on your feet, you adeptly juggle multiple projects & their deadlinesfor yourself & your teamto exceed the needs & goals of all stakeholders. Through encouraging design best practices, you play an instrumental role growing the agencys business, culture, & brand. And youre definitely interested in recruiting sharp, skillful, & engaged CMers to your project teams. Most importantly, you are passionate about creativity, typography, illustration, color, & the commitment to clean design.

You will:

• Develop strategic & measurable social & digital programs.
• Recruit, staff, on board, & grow opportunities through relationship in retail group.
• Build & maintain creative culture within the design team.
• Establish, grow, & focus on the health of the team to minimize turnover.
• Educate & mentor the team.
• Help grow the creative brand.
• Create business cases when work goes live.
• Create the creative identification, meaning, & direction of this office.
• Work on new business & organic growth opportunities.
• Establish strong rapport with team lead & members of the department.
• Strategically cast teams that match members skills & career aspiration based on resource plans & input from leads.
• Understand skillsets & personalities of team members to find areas for opportunity or improvement.
• Participate in the performance review process with 360 feedback & portfolio reviews.
• Ensure the project teams have resources needed to concept effectively.
• Create a positive environment where creativity can flourish every day.
• Lead recurring status meetings to discuss staffing for all active projects & potential projects.
• Mediate cross-functional resourcing issues with conflict resolution.
• Stay familiar with the latest trends & work in the design & advertising industry.
• Expertly assess the quality of creative, interactive, & production portfolios & reels.
• Collaborate with recruiting team on FTE & freelance recruiting needs.
• Ensure successful on-boarding & off-boarding of all employees.
• Partner with producers & project managers to monitor milestones & track schedule & scope changes

You have:

• 8-15+years relevant experience in a creative or marketing organization
• Experience in a resource or project management role within a project-based strategic, creative, or technical agency environment.
• Knowledge of digital processes & the creative process.
• Experience in design, conceptual advertising, or interactive.
• Experience working in a dynamic & fluid environment.
• Understanding of project lifecycle & process of complex requirements, briefs, potential risks, & dependencies relevant to resourcing work.
• Excellent communication & people management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a creative, fast-paced environment & work well under pressure.