Job Title:

Executive Creative Director

Job Description:

About Dentsu

Led by Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a pure holding company established on January 1, 2020, the Dentsu Group encompasses two operational networks: dentsu japan network, which oversees Dentsu’s agency operations in Japan, and dentsu international, its international business headquarters in London, which oversees Dentsu’s agency operations outside of Japan.
 

With a strong presence in approximately 145 countries and regions across five continents and with 65,000 dedicated professionals, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric integrated communications, media and digital services through its five leadership brands—Carat, dentsu X, iProspect, Dentsu Creative, and Merkle—as well as through Dentsu Japan Network companies, including Dentsu Inc., the world’s largest single brand agency with a history of innovation. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.

www.dentsu.com

About Dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative operates in over [21] markets worldwide with more than [2,200] dedicated specialists. Bringing together our Japanese heritage in craft, data and technology, and our deep understanding of media and contemporary culture, Dentsu Creative is a new global creative agency. Born in Japan, raised in a digital world. We help transform brands and business through the power of Modern Creativity: which creates culture, changes society and invents the future and is accelerated by our deep specialist expertise in digital experience, earned attention and entertainment.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities: (or 'Duties')

• Set creative strategy for clients’ projects, working closely with the CD, brand management team to align with the overall vision.
• Manage the creative team to evolve our team’s talent and capabilities and make the best possible use of our talent pool. Manage and develop creative team career paths. Evaluate team performance across projects and mentor and develop the team.
• Nurture a collaborative, team-oriented environment while infusing the team with creative inspiration. Function well in a cross-disciplinary environment.
• Advocate for the highest quality of creative digital work, and have the portfolio and occasional project work and craft skills to back that up.
• Communicate creative goals to external clients and internal creative teams, lead creative planning & ideation sessions, critique and evolve work with our designers, and integrate design requirements into all phases of production.
• Proactively conceive net new creative ideas and concepts to help push our work to higher standards.
• Inspire, excite, and motivate the design team and key stakeholders.
• Select and manage digital vendors and oversee the quality of their work from a creative perspective.
• Apply cutting edge user experience and design principles into all aspects of projects development.
• Provide creative direction for all projects efforts, both internal and external.
• Infuse designs with brand and aesthetic cues in a systematic and reproducible way while pushing the creativity and uniqueness of our work, and evolving style guidelines and standards.

Qualifications:

• Understanding of full range of creative and design disciplines
• Excellent visual design and presentation skills
• Good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Knowledge of interface design, typography, layout and web formats
• Degree and art and design related field
• Budget and financial management skills
• Operational understanding at board level
• Strong financial awareness
• Team leadership
• Conflict management
• Excellent at story telling