Creative Director

3 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Lucky Hustle Full time

Why join Lucky Hustle?
**Creative playground**: Dive into a space where your creativity can run wild and your innovative ideas come to life.
**Team vibes**: Collaborate with a tight-knit crew of marketing pros and senior leaders who are all about support and success.
**Work/life balance**: Work in a space that nurtures the idea of humanity in a refreshing agency environment that prioritises its people as much as the work.
Role
Use creative expertise (specifically art direction, animation and design) to craft problem-solving creative ideas.
Build relationships with existing and potential clients.
Adding value to the brands in order to guide clients and creative teams to produce top-quality ideas, execution and results.

**Responsibilities**:
Assist fellow CD in building the creative reputation of Lucky Hustle
Co-lead, alongside the fellow CD, the creative team in producing and crafting great concepts, art direction and copy, in response to creative briefs of existing or potential clients.
Offering creative guidance by using design and art direction insight to craft beautiful work for clients.
Ensuring all of Lucky Hustle’s creative output consistently meets the highest quality standards.
Help decode core brand problems and be able to solve them effectively and creatively.
Present and take ownership of creative work internally and externally in a clear, professional and impactful manner.
Maintain good relations with various members of the teams.
Work closely with traffic, strategy and account management to manage your creative teams’ expectations and continuously look out for opportunities to better the work.
Be a team player who gets stuck in the work with your team. Become a leader people work with and not someone they work for.
Use strategy, skill and articulation to help a creative team execute ideas and client briefs.
Actively participate in new business pitches and business development when required.
To inspire, coach and guide your creative teams for continuous improvement of individual and collective performance.
Required
Strong art direction, animation and design skills (N.B)
Outstanding creative ability
A strong grasp of digital creative as well as ATL executions
A desire to listen, learn and adapt in a high-pressure role
Conceptual thinker with strong design ability
Management skills leading and developing other creatives
Ability to direct and nurture creative resources and build a culture that enables inclusivity
Presentation skills
Strategically minded
Decisive
Ability to articulate themselves in a clear, simple and convincing way
Technical understanding of TV and content production, edits, sound, music, voice and direction
Impeccable attention to detail
Experience required
Five+ years as a senior art director
Two+ years as a creative director in a creative agency/company

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