The Director, Global Partnership Design is responsible for leading creative initiatives across MSE, with a focus on transformation marketing needs across ticketing, suites, partnerships, and marketing departments. This position will see projects through from conception to execution and delivery. You will be the go-to resource for our creative leadership, helping them accomplish large design, motion, and print initiatives with the intention of creating and driving the MSE standard.
Do you have strong communication and leadership skills, are detail driven, innovative, and a resourceful problem-solver? We would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
• Take creative leadership of projects and collaborate with Business Operations group to build products in support of overall transformation revenue products.
• Collaborate closely with Leads from the respective Teams to understand their business objectives and creative needs.
• Lead the development of all seasonal Team creative, support the team of designers to create compelling campaigns, and then finalize selected campaigns into Toolkits to be used throughout the company.
• Take ideas from concept to implementation, working with project managers, design colleagues, team specific marketing departments, and content experts to deliver an exciting fan experience.
• Create and manage both short and long-term creative project calendars.
• Present creative concepts to Marketing and Business leaders across MSE.
• Develop the design and look (both static and motion) for creative campaigns across the transformation project.
• Proactively communicate with clients to ensure clear understanding of needs and requirements, and to communicate design ideas and rationale.
• Organize and prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term need. Be adaptable as timelines, budgets, and availabilities change.
• Manage vendor relations for production (print, outdoor, etc.)
• Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, film, media, communications or related fields.
• 5 years of work experience in related field.
• Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, After Affects, Premiere.
• Experience working within a sports organization or network, leading interactive agency, or traditional advertising agency is a plus.
• Experience pitching and implementing creative ideas for projects and prospective clients.
• A great teammate with strong ability to provide clear creative direction, timely, and helpful feedback to improve creative processes to keep work on budget and schedule.
• Proven leadership skills including team building, mentoring and guiding large groups of creative talent.
• Ability to work efficiently and drive productivity with a team; excellent attention to detail.
• A portfolio demonstrating a track record of delivering highly creative and effective content.
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written form to teams, clients and leadership.
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to positively work with a wide variety of professional staff from varied subject areas and backgrounds.
• Organized and able to prioritize and problem solve in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Must possess a highly positive and service driven approach to working both internally and externally.
• Flexibility to work non-tradition hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Pay Range: $90-100k USD.
Benefit Eligibility: This role is eligible to participate in health and welfare benefits. Reference: ECNJOBID-102-212-90-253 in the application
