Location/Market: Los Angeles, CA
JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary
Qualifications
- At least 10 years’ experience as a Creative Director at a media organization and or creative agency.
- Experience in emerging design trends, including Video, Motion Graphics, Interactive, Web Development, Email, Mobile and Social Media.
- Advanced knowledge of video production and post-production with experience with systems implementation in a successful environment.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritize against goals.
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to a challenging, fast-paced environment of multiple priorities and partners.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong attention to detail.
- Consistent record of breakthrough creative development and a love for storytelling!
- Creative thinker, innovative partner with a strategic and resourceful mind.
- Fast-pace creative able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Outstanding communicator with the ability to work within multiple levels within the company.
Responsibilities:
- The Director of Creative Services will partner with internal teams including our editors of each one of our news hubs to deliver a clear creative direction that results in content that meets or exceeds the strategy, creative expectations and engagement.
- This role will define workflows and improve processes that decrease individual load and increase efficiency, ultimately giving teams more time to build our brand.
- Facilitate efficient communication between groups to guide campaigns from ideation through timely delivery.
- Implement best-practices and technology across our hubs to support and facilitate best in class workflows and our end product.
- Serve as the primary creative contact between the content department and marketing department to coordinate and execute campaigns strategically and to take advantage of synergies.
- Work with senior leadership to constantly evolve, and maximize workflow.
- Provide creative leadership, mentorship, and positive management skills to support our team members refining their skills, expanding capabilities, and enhancing engagement.
- Collaborate with content promotions teams and copywriters to generate concepts and ideation, starting with ideation and strategy and carrying the project through implementation.
- Responsible for the implementation with creation of graphic and animated elements for the Content team including network graphics, news graphics, show packages, events inserts and titles.
- Must understand and interpret the network's brand strategy into quality design and graphics.
- Expected to handle design needs within a show package as well as build ground up creative design and animations as needed.
- Effectively communicate concepts and ideas.
Requirements:
- Understanding of the implementation of design elements in network television and live environments is a must.
- Passion for show packaging and knowledge of current trends in graphic design
Excellent knowledge of Adobe PS, AI, After Effects and Cinema 4D, including modeling, texturing and animating.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a Full Time position.
Supervisory Responsibility
Reports directly to VP of News Operations
Required Education and Experience
· Must have three years management experience or equivalent; five or more years of Television and digital experience.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Entravision Communications Corporation participates in the E-Verify system operated by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration and will use E-Verify to confirm work eligibility for all new hire employees.
Entravision Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We encourage women and minorities to apply.
Qualifications
- At least 10 years’ experience as a Creative Director at a media organization and or creative agency.
- Experience in emerging design trends, including Video, Motion Graphics, Interactive, Web Development, Email, Mobile and Social Media.
- Advanced knowledge of video production and post-production with experience with systems implementation in a successful environment.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritize against goals.
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to a challenging, fast-paced environment of multiple priorities and partners.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong attention to detail.
- Consistent record of breakthrough creative development and a love for storytelling!
- Creative thinker, innovative partner with a strategic and resourceful mind.
- Fast-pace creative able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Outstanding communicator with the ability to work within multiple levels within the company.
Responsibilities:
- The Director of Creative Services will partner with internal teams including our editors of each one of our news hubs to deliver a clear creative direction that results in content that meets or exceeds the strategy, creative expectations and engagement.
- This role will define workflows and improve processes that decrease individual load and increase efficiency, ultimately giving teams more time to build our brand.
- Facilitate efficient communication between groups to guide campaigns from ideation through timely delivery.
- Implement best-practices and technology across our hubs to support and facilitate best in class workflows and our end product.
- Serve as the primary creative contact between the content department and marketing department to coordinate and execute campaigns strategically and to take advantage of synergies.
- Work with senior leadership to constantly evolve, and maximize workflow.
- Provide creative leadership, mentorship, and positive management skills to support our team members refining their skills, expanding capabilities, and enhancing engagement.
- Collaborate with content promotions teams and copywriters to generate concepts and ideation, starting with ideation and strategy and carrying the project through implementation.
- Responsible for the implementation with creation of graphic and animated elements for the Content team including network graphics, news graphics, show packages, events inserts and titles.
- Must understand and interpret the network's brand strategy into quality design and graphics.
- Expected to handle design needs within a show package as well as build ground up creative design and animations as needed.
- Effectively communicate concepts and ideas.
Requirements:
- Understanding of the implementation of design elements in network television and live environments is a must.
- Passion for show packaging and knowledge of current trends in graphic design
Excellent knowledge of Adobe PS, AI, After Effects and Cinema 4D, including modeling, texturing and animating.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a Full Time position.
Supervisory Responsibility
Reports directly to VP of News Operations
Required Education and Experience
· Must have three years management experience or equivalent; five or more years of Television and digital experience.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Entravision Communications Corporation participates in the E-Verify system operated by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration and will use E-Verify to confirm work eligibility for all new hire employees.
Entravision Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We encourage women and minorities to apply.