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Creative Director / ACD (NY)

Fluid is searching for an interactive visionary to lead our super-talented team of artists, designers, and art directors in our NY office on Varick Street in SOHO.

Our ideal candidate has a formidable brain that fires on both right and left cylinders: the talent and passion to truly innovate + the experience and sensibilities to expertly manage a stellar team to greatness and profitability. We are looking for a concept-driven visual problem solver with expert design chops and a desire to define the next generation of consumer shopping experiences for digital retail.

At Fluid you will lead an award-winning creative team with a portfolio of innovation for premiere brands such as Calvin Klein, Lancome, Theory, Milly, and Nine West. You will be simultaneously hands-on and high-level, leading select accounts from concept-to-launch as well as mentoring, managing and directing your team of designers and artists through to pixel-perfect work.

You:

  • Live a digital lifestyle!
  • Passion for innovation!
  • Fluent with social media
  • Love big ideas and seeing them through
  • Own a reasonably good sense of humor

Experience:

  • Hands-on experience designing exceptional digital brand experiences
  • 8+ years experience in an interactive agency or working directly for a globally recognized consumer brand
  • 3+ years experience directly managing and growing an interactive creative department as well as creative for account/project teams
  • Direct experience developing strong client relationships, eliciting client vision & direction, and presenting & selling creative concepts
  • Successful track record for creating and delivering pitch proposals for new opportunities and developing existing accounts

Skills:

  • Professional, graceful and effective under pressure and tight deadlines
  • Expertise in concept development, visual design, interaction design and animation
  • Ability to translate client business and brand goals into innovative, meaningful and differentiated conceptually-driven digital experiences
  • Thoughtful leader who knows how to effectively manage, cultivate, mentor and inspire a group of creative individuals to consistently produce their best work
  • Respectful listener and great communicator who is able to articulate complicated things very simply both internally and externally

Fluid

At Fluid, you will join a vibrant group of people with a passion for ideas and innovation.

Fluid focuses exclusively in digital experience for the world’s premiere brands including Calvin Klein, The North Face, Design Within Reach, Lancome, Timberland, and JanSport. Fluid is located at 180 Varick Street in SOHO in New York.

Introduce Yourself: Online (no recruiters or firms please)

Please send your portfolio URL, a letter of interest, salary requirements, and resume detailing your specific background. Tell us a little about yourself and how you approach the discipline of design. We will review submissions and contact you if you meet the criteria listed above.

Keywords: Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, Art Director, Visual Designer, Senior Designer, Web Designer, Visual Design, Interactive Design, eCommerce, e-commerce, Digital Retail, Flash Animator, Flash Developer, Flash Designer