About the Role:

As a Senior Art Director, you bring a creative voice with strategic thinking to projects. You have a diverse array of experiences to bring to the role—from conceptual development to client relations to the execution of creative deliverables. You’ll create and communicate concepts, dig into marketing and social platform strategies, and develop new business pitch materials, interactive solutions to deliver excellent digital and social experiences.  

Leading creatives and working alongside multidisciplinary leads—in strategy, account, technology, and project management—doesn’t faze you. You build strong client relationships with expertise, and work to push big thinking in the digital space. Most importantly, you embody and embrace our values—to be honest, inspired, drive, passionate and real—in everything you do.   

You Will:  

• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of brand and the overall industry via concept, design, and execution. 
• Ideate and execute on deliverables that includes but is not limited to social, digital, PPT, video, experiences, and content. Often alongside an CD partner.
• Craft ideas agency branding that are digital-first and social by design.
• Build brand guideline around agency needs and vision.
• Prepare and present creative ideas to project stakeholders, such as agency stakeholders and integrated project leads.
• Take direction from internal leadership and agency creative leaders.
• Partner with multidisciplinary teams including account, strategy, marketing and project management to ensure that projects tasks and timelines are clear.
• Provide regular team mentorship and constructive feedback
• Juggle multiple projects simultaneously, managing day-to-day needs and providing direction creative team as needed.
• Work closely with new business team to coordinate and complete pitch projects on time and with exceptional craft. 
• Learn agencies capabilities, processes, proprietary tools to create compelling/comprehensive visuals for marketing and internal training purposes
• Build relationships with agency leadership, new business leads, creative directors and other dept. leads.
• Promote a culture of excellence and accountability
• Work from our Office at Zona Franca Metro 3 days a week

You Have:  

• 6+ years branding/new business pitch experience.  
• Exceptional communication skills and presentation skills.
• Proven aptitude for quick, creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• A keen enthusiasm for and demonstrable understanding of trends and digital opportunities and new technology
• Experience with brainstorming, brand concept, brand guidelines, asset/content development, and developing new business pitch materials.
• The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously 

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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