Creative Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Translate approved brand strategies, messaging, and business objectives into compelling visual, digital, and interactive experiences
• Establish creative direction for campaigns, social media, websites, photography, video, design, presentations, and multimedia content
• Develop creative concepts, briefs, storyboards, content plans, visual systems, and production schedules
• Lead creative projects from concept through production, review, approval, delivery, and performance evaluation
• Manage and develop creative employees, specialists, freelancers, agencies, and production vendors
• Review creative work for originality, quality, audience relevance, technical execution, and brand alignment
• Provide clear, actionable feedback while developing the capabilities of assigned team members
• Present and defend creative concepts and recommendations to executives and senior leadership
• Identify missing information and create structure when requests are incomplete or unclear
• Manage multiple companies, audiences, deadlines, stakeholders, and approval processes at once, keeping creative files and digital assets organized
• Evaluate creative performance to improve future work, and stay current on creative practices, production technology, and emerging platforms

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years in creative direction, design, digital media, multimedia production, or a related field, including experience leading projects or people
• A strong portfolio demonstrating creative direction across design, video, photography, social, web, or multimedia
• Proven ability to translate brand strategy and business objectives into original, high-quality creative work
• Strong project-management skills, managing multiple companies, deadlines, stakeholders, and approvals at once
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, and comparable design, video, and motion software
• Ability to give clear, actionable creative feedback and develop team members and vendors
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to quality, originality, and brand alignment
• Confidence presenting and defending creative recommendations to executives and senior leadership
• Professional, dependable, and proactive, and available for occasional after-hours events, project-location visits, and travel as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Digital Media, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading creative for multiple brands, business units, locations, or companies
• Business-to-business, construction, manufacturing, or professional-services experience
• Hands-on capability in two or more of graphic design, video editing, photography, motion graphics, or website production
• Familiarity with digital asset management, brand systems, and creative production workflows