HUMDINGER & SONS IS SEEKING AN

ACD

TO HELP LEAD FROM OUR MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE IN CREATING SOME KICKASS CAMPAIGNS FOR SOME KICKASS TECH CLIENTS

We’re looking for an experienced creative, with an art director background, who's ready to take on the beginning role of being a leader and mentor for a fine group of creatives as an ACD.

In collaboration with our CD's and GCD's, this individual would help lead creative, digital, motion, and environmental teams that create both physical and virtual experiences for our clients.

Our ideal candidate should have 6+ years of design agency experience with an appetite to work with multiple, tight-knit teams. Your ability to work independently is of the utmost importance.

Please provide a kickass portfolio that exhibits excellent use of design, typography, color, imagery in web, mobile, and video design.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• In collaboration with your creative ACD partner, you will support the development and delivery of creative solutions that are rooted in insights, from content work to larger campaign initiatives.

• You are a maker - your main focus is ideation and creation, both at a high speed and volume

Supporting your G/CD, mentor and manage a full creative team, including designers, writers, and creators.

• Support managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.

• Collaborate cross-departmentally to develop a high variety of content that meets creative and strategic criteria (client briefs, feedback, client KPIs)

• Ideate and conceptualize high-engaging content that reflects the brand’s aesthetic and style guidelines; maintaining aesthetic, tone, and brand consistency across all deliverables

• Fosters positive relationships among the internal brand teams, the creative department, direct reports, other agency partners, and clients.

• Acts as quality control and brand steward for junior level team members and liaison between your team and your senior manager

• Co-lead /lead brainstorms and actively participate during inter-agency ideation sessions.

Experience / Knowledge Required:

• 6+ years of advertising experience, developing and creating digital strategies and campaigns.

• A strong design aesthetic with writing sense with proven conceptual and brainstorming skills

• Ability to carry out a concept from start to completion, and guide those on your team to do the same. Executing and delegating as needed.

• Strong knowledge of Platform/Industry/creative trends and digital best practices. Must be able to translate this knowledge to in articulating and strategically applying to creative executions.

• Experience evaluating teams with the ability to supervise and train employees on an ongoing basis.

• A talent for wearing multiple brand hats and switching easily among brand voices.

• Simultaneously manage multiple projects with tight deadlines

Bonus Round

• Motion/3D skills

• Front end skills

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Perks

• Huge opportunity to work with some of the coolest startups and emerging tech companies in the world.

• Profit sharing

• Great benefits with a fun crew in an awesome North Loop office.

• Working with startups and globally recognized brands.

• Getting in at ground level with Humdinger. We're hot. Srsly.