Ideas United is a creative studio built on the power of storytelling. Our progressive model allows our team to take an unconventional approach by finding and fostering emerging talent, we have built a global talent network of 3,500 storytellers working alongside over 50 in-house creatives. We shape experiences, rethink conventions, and speak to new audiences across four key categories: students, brands, universities amp; nonprofits, and originals. We focus on producing authentic, story-driven content to create for a better future. We are a group of people working to lift voices and create change for the underrepresented, the emerging and the lifelong storytellers.
We are a team of people with diverse backgrounds, different perspectives, and unique interests. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability have equal opportunities to thrive, collaborate and create.
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SummaryWe are looking for a strategic-thinking, boundary-pushing creative leader with a human-centered, story-driven approach that can push the team and work to new places. They have experience leading creative development for content, campaigns, and experiences within higher education and nonprofit spaces. They are able to jump into a fast-moving environment, quickly learn our platforms for communication and collaboration, and get into the actual work. They are skilled at planning and producing strategic solutions, overseeing the entirety of the creative process, and moving the vision from concept to development and through production and delivery. The Creative Director is a big-picture thinker that has the ability to approach all things with positivity and excitement and has the unique ability to inspire those around them to explore, experiment, and play while working toward the ultimate goal of producing impactful and engaging work that answers a partner need.
3-month contract position with multiple opportunities to extend.What you'll do
- Lead the generation, development, and production of impactful, engaging, purpose-driven, brand-defining creative for content and campaigns
- Translate partner goals and objectives into innovative creative strategies
- Able to work across mediums, with multiple team members, often under tight deadlines, all while maintaining and communicating a clear sense of direction
- Provide vision and lead ideation
- Lead exploration and discovery sessions to better understand partner and campaign goals
- Maintain a positive direction - always looking forward and always finding solutions despite often needing to navigate ambiguity
- Inspire, make people want to learn more, and make them take action
- Foster an inclusive, positive, and highly motivated environment of trust and collaboration
- Approach work and people with empathy
- Help to create budgets and timelines for all creative facets of a project
- Foster a diverse, inclusive, positive, and highly motivated environment of trust and collaboration
If you require reasonable accommodation in interviewing, completing any employment testing, or otherwise participating in this hiring process, please use our application to indicate any specific inquiries. Only requests related to accommodations will be responded to.iU requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (this includes eligible boosters). Accordingly, vaccination against COVID-19 will be a condition of employment, unless the employee or prospective employee is entitled to reasonable accommodation under applicable law. All offers of employment at Ideas United are contingent upon clear results of a background check. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates.