Location: NYC, NY
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 10+ years
Compensation: $222,000
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Ford Foundation’s Office of Communications team is hiring a Creative Director (CD) to oversee all aspects of the foundation’s brand identity, including strategic planning and creative content. Reporting to the Vice President of Global Communications, the CD builds internal and external brand standards, ensuring strategic and high-quality audience experiences on various digital and physical environments (including in Ford’s offices around the world); and bringing to fruition the systems needed to successfully help build key audiences over time.
Directly supervising a core team of creative staff and working across multiple stakeholders, the CD will serve as the senior creative leader at the Foundation and will drive the visual output of the Foundation across all platforms including print, digital, social, interior spaces, and multimedia.
A competitive candidate will have a deep understanding of brand strategy, contemporary visual culture, and a drive to do mission-driven work. In addition, they will possess strong leadership and strategic communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and an interest in managing the growth and needs of a high performing team. They will nimbly direct and translate abstract ideas into world-class campaigns, stories, and digital experiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with VP of Global Communications and senior colleagues to formulate brand and creative strategies and to improve brand consistency across platforms.
Mentor, motivate and inspire a group of creatives, communications colleagues and freelancers with a diverse range of backgrounds.
Sets priorities and oversees the execution and development of creative assets in support of a variety of teams and programming. Strong art direction skills, including experience with photoshoots and the ability to translate organizational goals into concrete projects and products.
Ensure timely and seamless execution of cross-functional projects; design flexible and iterative frameworks to foster collaboration, leading work both within the communications function and across the Foundation.
