Critical Mass delivers a next-gen suite of services for our clients, utilizing dynamic creative optimization to deliver creative engineering, intelligent automation, and technology expertise with a highly scaled operational model for our clients. We are seeking a full time, Associate Creative Engineering Director to work alongside Executive Creative Engineering Director to lead as an architect, influencer, and manager within our cutting-edge creative automation team. With a holistic view and understanding of an overall campaign/ecosystem, the ACE will direct a team of designers to format and build complex creative frameworks to enabled at scale production of content for our global clients. These frameworks will adhere to both best practices and client brand standards. This individual should love data as much as they love good design. The ideal candidate will be excited by the possibilities for innovation found between understanding how data can influence design and how clever design can drive data results. This individual is detail-oriented, organized, and pragmatic. They also live to solve puzzles. Partnering with creative, account, strategy, and media teams, they will use their knowledge of digital platforms to influence test-and-learn approaches and anticipate how creative can be evolved for the better.

Your will:

• Lead, mentor and grow the Production Design team toward quality, consistency, and excellence by understanding skill sets and personalities of team members to find areas for opportunity and ensure projects are cast with the best talent
• Lead from a production POV, DCO efforts that span from display all the way into video.
• Support the performance review process with regular team meetings, portfolio reviews and 360 bi-annual feedback.
• Collaborate with the Creative Team to bring their ideas to life with best practices and brand standards being top of mind.
• Collaborate with other discipline team leads to coordinate their requirements and needs within the system.
• Collaborate with 3rd party vendors that may be supporting any effort within their proprietary MarTech.
• Collaborate with world class in-house brand studios and their leads.
• Create production solutions elevating our abilities to create.
• Create scalable programs that will enable performance marketing campaign to easily scale and be manipulated into testing frameworks.
• Create regular opportunities to stay current within the tech stack of production design tools, including platforms focused on creative automation and latest trends in the design and advertising industry.
• Create a positive environment where creativity and positivity can flourish every day.

You have:

• Advanced English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation)
• 9+ years relevant experience in a high-velocity production studio, digital design production shop, and/or agency organization.
• Advanced proficiencies within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with practical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite’s ecosystem of content creation software.
• Advanced proficiencies in Figma
• Experience in DCO frameworks.
• Experience building and mentoring highly productive teams.
• Experience in high-scale output and design and a proven track record driving new initiatives through an organization.
• Experience with content at scale technologies.
• Experience working in a dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing environment
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design Advertising Design or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups is a plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• End of year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible!

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

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