Creative Director

Job Description

Job Description

ON BOARD EXPERIENTIAL MARKETING

On Board Experiential (OBE) is an award-winning, full-service, experience-led agency that creates meaningful brand experiences worldwide. We work out of our homes and physical offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and NYC, or wherever our adventures take us! Our clients include Nike, Meta, JPMorgan Chase, The Infatuation, Stripe, and OpenAI, to name a few. We know, "Cool, cool, but what's it like to work at OBE?" We thought you'd never ask. Event Marketer has recognized OBE as one of the best places to work in events and well, we couldn't agree more.

The most important part of our business is our people. They are hardworking, brave and make magic happen on the regular. But under each majestic exterior is a human deserving of a healthy work-life balance. That's why we believe in recovery days, happy hours, friendly but competitive fitness challenges and company offsites.

We conduct open meetings to facilitate discussions that heal, inspire, and bring us closer. We encourage each other to bring our whole selves to work. We want to hear about your lived experiences and unique perspectives. We don't just want you to be unapologetically you : it's part of the job description.

We are considering candidates for any of our office locations : San Francisco (Mill Valley), Los Angeles, and New York.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

As Creative Director, you bring big, transformative ideas to the table and motivate cross-functional teams to realize grand visions. You examine all aspects of client problems and briefs to create thoughtful, viable and unexpected creative solutions. As an experienced creative that blends visionary strategic thinking and art direction, you work to inspire game-changing ideas in collaboration with our team of experts and articulate them into clear and powerful concepts. You're a true team player with expertise in experiential marketing strategy. Your leadership elevates the agency's creative output, resulting in award-winning work. You have the passion and creative chops to crank up brand impact for some of the world's leading companies.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP :

• Thoughtfully develop and present winning new business pitches that expand business relationships and agency opportunities.
• Understand and work within project parameters, including client goals and requirements, internal goals, audience experience, technical constraints, budget and timeline to create industry-leading creative work.
• Elevate the work. Lead Creative project teams by consistently clarifying team dynamics and next steps, monitoring progress, providing helpful critique, and infusing big ideas into the work, and thus consistently delivering inspired creative work that meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Guide and contribute to strategic development of integrated experiential and virtual marketing campaigns throughout all phases of a project, overseeing planning, concept development, design and implementation. "Get your hands dirty" by producing and guiding fantastic work that solves our clients' business challenges in unique and innovative ways.
• Be the conduit between upfront strategy development and design exploration and execution :

STRATEGY : Clarify and anchor the client brief, objectives and KPIs; conduct primary and secondary research on the brand, audience, and other key project elements, distill and curate ideas based on strategic insights, contribute best-in-class storytelling and copywriting, validate recommendations with clear strategic rationale, pivot and adjust with strategic excellence, etc.

CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE : Stay up to date on current events, culturally relevant movements and happenings, DE&I best practices and terminology, and a vast range of subject matter that enhances the work, heightens your ability to collaborate with diverse talent, and creates an inclusive environment for expressing authentic and diverse perspectives.

CREATIVE PROCESS :

AGENCY PROCESS + IMPACT :

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT + GROWTH :

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE :

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

OTHER QUALITIES AND SKILLS

Compensation Range : $140,000 - $220,000 annually. This is the pay range OBE believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on level of experience, relevant skills, professional certifications, market pay, and demand for the role. OBE reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, Benefits include : medical / dental / vision insurance, employer paid basic life and personal accident insurance. Also included : Annual Profit Sharing / Bonus Plan based on the company's performance and your individual performance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, PTO, STD / LTD insurance benefits.

On Board Experiential is An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.