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CaaStle is seeking a motivated, passionate and highly organized Creative Operations Director to play an integral role within the Creative Team. As an entrepreneurial company at the cutting edge of retail’s rental movement, we are looking for this person to drive creative output within a fast-paced environment that supports the business objectives of our brands.The Creative Operations Director is responsible for overseeing and managing all Creative process and resource allocation (from staffing, project management and budget oversight) to facilitate and drive the development and review of all content (including but not limited to photography, email, social media assets, video and site assets). You will also oversee photo/video production (pre and post), digital asset creation and some print/outdoor/event.In addition, you will develop infrastructure and process of the Creative Department to increase timeliness and communications of creative development and output. S/he will add operational efficiency to the creative workflow via best practices and tools that streamline and structure the way creative work is produced.What you’ll do:
- The ideal profile would be an accomplished Creative Operations leader, with strong, results-driven, relationship management and collaboration skills
- Manage creative project operations, including development, implementation and oversight of creative department workflow process and project resourcing in strong collaboration with the Creative Director.
- Establish processes and infrastructure/tools that will lend itself to the overall efficiency of the creative development process.
- Own all creative team agendas and lead Creative and Photography status meetings.
- Pro-actively partner with Brand, Marketing, Merchandising and Product teams on intake and delivery of all creative work. Attend project kick-offs, review creative briefs (ensure all information is present for projects to be completed while collaborating with the Marketing/Product teams on revisions and feedback), and manage ticketing/assigning of all briefs.
- Lead creative talent to achieve both department and project goals through open communication, executional support and organized creative processes.
- Represent the Creative team perspective, goals and deliverables in meetings across multiple cross functional teams, including Marketing, Brand, Product, Merchandising, PR, Project Management, Producers, and external partners.
- Manage Creative and Photography/Video schedules and set priorities to meet deadlines as well as troubleshoot problems as they arise.
- Directly manage a team of 3 direct reports across all production(pre- and post-production across multiple locations)
- Establish and manage resource pool of freelance talent across graphic design, copywriting, video production, illustration, video direction/production, video editing, retouching, etc.
We’d love for you to have:
- Experience: 7-8+ years relevant work experience, most recently driving leadership within a creative traffic/operations environment.
- Experience partnering with Creative and Marketing and VM teams to deliver digital materials for evergreen business, launches, and performance marketing across multiple brands
- Strong leadership and project management skills. Must be capable of handling numerous projects in fast-paced, high-pressure environment ensuring deliverables are achieved on time while maintaining the highest quality. Previous experience leading a large team is a must.
- General knowledge of digital asset creation (emails, performance marketing platforms (display media, mobile, social), photography, video, print production, etc.
- Strong passion and motivation to refine processes in an operational creative environment. An analytical and operations-oriented mindset is key.
- Excellent written and oral communications, excellent presentation skills, ability to personally organize and set priorities and to influence others.
- Positive, flexible and well organized to thrive in a rapid environment and meet challenging deadlines
- Ability to build strong relationships both internally and with outside vendors.
- Must be pro- active, solutions oriented.
- Knowledge of the functions of marketing, creative, product within a technology, fashion or start-up space.
- Technology, Start-Up, Fashion, Beauty experience is a plus.
- Manage a team of 3+, while partnering directly with Creative Director
- Reports in Sr. Director of Brand and Creative
Even if you don’t meet all of these qualifications above, we’d still love to hear from you. Tell us about your unique qualifications in your cover letter.
Caastle is committed to equality of opportunity in employment. It has been and will continue to be the policy of Caastle to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical or mental disability. This policy applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment, such as those pertaining to training, transfer, promotion, compensation and recreational programs.
Creative Producer: Training & Learning (Voices Incubator)
Purpose builds and supports movements to advance the fight for an open, just, and habitable world. We use public mobilization and storytelling to help leading organizations, activists, businesses, and philanthropies engaged in this fight, and we create campaigning labs and new initiatives that can shift policies and change public narratives when it matters most.
To do this, Purpose brings together world-class talent from the world of creatives, content development, storytelling, campaigning, grassroots organizing, and political strategy to build new creative campaigning models.
Guided by smart strategy and powered by participation, our work reframes issues, engages new audiences, shifts public discourse, and ultimately drives targeted action and creates lasting impact. Join the team that made all this work!
ABOUT THE VOICES INCUBATOR
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) launched Grand Challenges to bring the world’s brightest minds together to solve our world’s most pressing challenges. By investing in small grants & holistic support, the Challenges foster innovation and experimentation for social impact. The Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge was launched to address the persistent toxic narratives about poverty in the U.S. In addition to providing $100,000 to 28 organizations, activists, and storytellers, BMGF is partnering with Purpose to design, support, and strengthen this community through the Voices for Economic Opportunity Incubator.
The Voices Incubator provides resources for participants around community & collaboration, learning & training, and testing & experimentation to support the creation of breakthrough creative, scalable and strategic interventions that begin to shift harmful narratives on poverty and economic mobility in America.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Purpose is seeking a Creative Producer of Training and Learning to join our diverse and exciting team. One of the key offerings of the Voices Incubator is a dynamic, virtual, and equity-centered curriculum for participants to learn from each other and access leading research on narrative change so that they can better change hearts and minds through their own creative projects. The Creative Producer of Training and Learning will help design the Incubator’s online gatherings and learning sessions, including a Virtual Convening with the full Incubator cohort, as well as homeroom sessions with tailored pairings of participants. In addition to developing the technical experience of our Training & Learning program, the Creative Producer will manage our relationships with experts and facilitators who present to the Incubator group, support the facilitation of online digital communications, and engage participants with accessible interactive tools. We are looking for someone who has experience managing virtual events or workshops with learning communities, project management expertise, and is comfortable with interactive tools.
We’re looking for team players with passion, a sharp mind, high integrity, a hands-on attitude, and a collaborative, problem-solving spirit.
The role reports to the Voices Incubator project leads and is based in Purpose’s New York office. We are open to applicants who may currently be based elsewhere due to the pandemic, but will be back in New York eventually.
This role is offered at the Associate Director tier, which has a salary range of $80,000 – $105,000 per year, commensurate with experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build and manage relationships with a diversity of partner individuals and organizations, from high-level funders to national nonprofits, legal funds, and local organizers
- Plan, manage, recommend, collaborate, and coordinate between team members to deliver interactive learning sessions and experiential events
- Implement learning strategy, planning and production
- Manage virtual events from strategy alignment, briefing, and design development through production in partnership with key stakeholders
- Coordinate with external facilitators, researchers, and performers to ensure through-line of experimentation, accessibility, and equity are maintained within all learning opportunities
- Consistent communication with all team members, from core team to stakeholders, management and beyond
- Respond to and interested in best practices in virtual events and sustained curriculum with remote, impacted communities
- Budget management, including vendor contractors, external facilitators, and expense invoices
- Create and maintain detailed timelines / work plans for all project deliverables and key milestones; hold delivery teams (i.e. strategy, campaigns, creative, freelancers, vendors) accountable to project plans.
- Work with Senior Program Manager and operational teams at Purpose to ensure the Lab is supported by and capitalizing on the resources and expertise in-house.
- Support the project team in sharing key learnings and insights from cohort experience to external partners, building a unique incubator model that can be replicated for future projects and groups.
Skills & Experience:
- 7+ years in virtual event management and/or project management for cause-based organizations and leaders
- Experience designing online curricula or training programs geared toward frontline leaders and organizations within the US
- Accessible approaches to diverse learning styles
- Highly skilled in external communications, with a keen ability to know just how much information is enough to share to get the wheels turning
- Demonstrated track record and/or interest in narrative change and persuasive storytelling, particularly as it applies to perceptions of economic inequality and mobility within the US
If these are things that get you out of bed in the morning we want to hear from you:
- Thinking about how to make the world a better place
- Obsessively thinking about the user experience and how to share learnings across diverse audiences and partners
- Telling stories that stop the heart and move the mind that place the impacted voice at the center
Creative Operations Lead, Global Creative Lab
Qualifications
Responsible for the project management of specific global Creative programs in addition to supporting the production of all 360° global campaigns with a focus on photography, digital, social and video.
The individual will develop and distribute assets on a global basis and work closely with local markets to ensure that brand voice is consistent. He/she will also partner with cross-functional teams, to conceptualize, produce and execute on-brand creative content for all platforms.
In addition, this person will maintain a strong working knowledge of Origins brand, its heritage, customers, products and retail environments.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage all Pre and post Production on all video/still assets including:
o Keeping all pre and post schedules up do date; Distributing schedules to creative partners to make sure everyone is on track
o Partnering with design director to ensure we have all comps, props, & anything needed for shoots
o Tracking all vendor estimates, obtaining estimate approval and making sure vendors are in the system and paid on time
o Coordinate all casting briefs and casting needs
o Planning, executing, and attending all shoots, to ensure are on schedule and we are capturing everything that was briefed
o Track and update the asset list with any production partners and internal partners
o Manage all retouching schedules and vendors to ensure files are delivered on time
o Communicating with vendors to obtain timely and accurate files
o Distribute all files to the right people
o Make sure that all files are on the server, naming configurations are correct and in the DAM.
- Work closing with the art director on concepts to make sure what is being produced is within budget
- Fiscally responsible and resourceful in finding alternative ways to save money; e.g. setting up an in house studio and shooting one off requests, hiring re-touchers, video director, to save resources
- Plan as much in advance to be able to group shoots together
- Responsible for execution of design concepts for both print and digital programs
- Collaborate with Design, Visual Merchandising and Copy teams to develop cohesive in-store collateral.
- Coordinate with multiple producers, re-touchers, techs, photographers and art directors to keep consistency across all projects
- Participate in final image reviews
- Manage ecommerce digital images and traffic images, plan timelines, delegate and track retouched assets for future and current use
- Apply approved concept directions to designs of all program elements.
- Prepare mechanical files and package for delivery.
- Check all print proofs for color and artwork.
- Participate in weekly Creative department status meetings to ensure timely delivery of all program elements.
- Update status docs to make sure that everyone is communicated to
- Manage social asset production from concept ideation to final asset delivery
o Spearhead planning of social shoots
o Manage copy timelines – pre and post approval.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Preferred.
- 4 years of related experience with strong print and digital design background from conceptualization to production.
- Strong ability to successfully communicate design direction and strategy.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills and is able to work with a range of disciplines (marketing, creative, productions, etc.)
- Superior knowledge on skills with Adobe Suites.
- Expert knowledge of typography, color, usability, layout, production, and other design principles.
- Conceptual thinking and hands-on design skills.
- Strong ability to prioritize tasks and work both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong ability to organize and manage multiple projects and to meet deadlines
Job: Creative / Design
Primary Location: Americas-US-NY-New York
Job Type: Standard
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: 1st (Day) Shift
We are an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Job Number: 198715
We are an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is Company’s policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact tatechsupport@estee.com.
HelloFresh is in search of a Director, Brand Operations to join our Brand team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creative operations, production, and executing projects and programs to schedule, scope, budget and specification.
The Director, Brand Operations, reporting to the Senior Director of Brand, will oversee a team of 30, plus a host of freelance talent. He or she will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our Brand functions, including recipe card production, project management, creative production and two
photography studios.
You will …
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- Ambassador for Brand, creating meaningful relationships with key stakeholders
- Oversee and lead critical brand marketing production teams
- Development, implementation and oversight of creative workflow and process
- Management, oversight and prioritization of the brand project portfolio
- Budget management and forecasting for the Brand team in collaboration with Head of Brand
- Establish processes and infrastructure in pursuit of greater efficiencies
- Relationship management of Growth, Product, and Tech partners
- Optimize our marketing tech systems (Bynder, Wrike, ACS, Sketch, etc)
- Partner with Creative Director to ensure we have the right resources for the work demands
- Resource ownership in collaboration with the Project Management lead
- Lead communication of and defend critical portfolio decisions
- Continually troubleshoot and recalibrate workflow, resourcing and prioritization issues
- Own project reporting in collaboration with Project Management
- Own the Brand Content Calendar in collaboration with Brand Marketing
- Own the operation of two photo studios and their multi-disciplinary functions within
- Scale and refine a recipe card production system to reduce errors and increase efficiency
You have…
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- 8+ years in-house experience in creative, creative operations and/or production
- Ability to motivate and influence others through displays of strong leadership
- A bias for teamwork and advocacy for cross-functional collaboration
- Demonstrated skill in managing complex integrated marketing campaigns
- Ability to guide and influence work and teams without direct responsibility
- Area expert in end-to-end production, including print, photography and video
- Experience working with and/or managing in-house Creative teams
- Demonstrated ability to manage a PMO and a large portfolio of projects
- Strong knowledge of creative and production workflows and process
- Ability to manage time appropriately and meet aggressive deadlines
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Adaptable to changing mandates and priorities in line with an ever-changing business
You’ll get…
- Competitive Salary & 401k company match that vests immediately upon participation
- Generous parental leave of 16 weeks & PTO policy
- $0 monthly premium and other flexible health plans
- 75% discount on your subscription to HelloFresh (as well as other product initiatives)
- Snacks, cold brew on tap & monthly catered lunches
- Company sponsored outings & Employee Resource Groups
- Collaborative, dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company
It is the policy of HelloFresh not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because he or she is a protected veteran.