CONTENT CREATOR (REMOTE)

Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $40.00 - 46.88 per hour

Cella has partnered with a global hospitality brand to find a talented Content Creator to join their team. In this role you will work on multiple campaigns for various internal brand clients at once, often in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. The ideal candidate has strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to inspire and sell creative rationale to senior management, and cross-functional teams.

This is a 100% remote opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively understand and gain knowledge of brands, target audiences and competitor activities.
• Develop creative ideas and concepts, often in partnership with the Creative Director and other Senior Designers and Copywriters.
• Collaborate with the Loyalty, Enterprise and Brand marketing teams along with other members of internal creative studio to understand business objectives, marketing objectives and creative needs to support a variety of direct response marketing campaigns. Liaise with internal stakeholders to interpret creative briefs.
• Develop compelling creative solutions across omni-channel touchpoints with a customer-first lens.
• Responsible for graphic design and direction, seeing all projects through from concept, design, production, completion and delivery.
• Present and provide business rationale for creative ideas to our internal stakeholders for approval and development.
• Evolve, revise or redevelop advertisements or campaigns in response to feedback from the Creative Director, or internal stakeholders.
• Assist the team with day-to-day production requests, including image selection and reformatting creative for various channels.
• Balance multiple projects successfully to meet deadlines and collaborate across multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the ACD, Art Director and design/production team on all creative projects. Personally work on graphic development.
• Adhere brand identity standards and guidelines, while helping to inform the evolution and extension of the visual identity.
• Interact with ACD/Art Director/Copywriter to develop creative concepts and executions.
• Work closely with project manager to keep all projects on track.
• Present design work at various stages to stakeholders for review and final approval.
• Use campaign performance data to understand the effectiveness of campaigns and apply key learnings to future campaigns.
• Stay current on industry trends, particularly in the digital and social space; share ideas and recommendations for innovating new templates and design approaches.

Qualifications:

• Strong portfolio showing a range of experience, concepts, and visual styles. Portfolio MUST be linked in your resume.
• Minimum of 5 years relative Design experience, preferably in a design firm, advertising or in-house creative department.
• Experience working with a marketing department, understanding of business objectives and ability to find creative solutions to help achieve objectives.
• Knowledge of design fundamentals, & messaging hierarchy.
• Experience working on direct response materials and designing for a range of marketing channels including email, banner ads, social, landing pages, print collateral.
• Ability to develop/present/pitch creative ideas.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Suite.
• Ability to process and produce multiple projects in a short time frame- resizing art/layout accordingly to specs.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously under the pressure of deadlines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong creative, organizational problem solving.
• Experience developing rich media and other forms of online advertising.
• Must be able to apply style guides creatively while upholding brand identity.
• Have a strong interest in social and cultural trends and emerging digital technologies.
• Strong attention to detail. Self-starter. A positive attitude and a collaborative personality.
• Animation & Video production experience is a plus.
• Experience supervising junior designers is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have an interest in popular culture, new trends, and styles.
• Experience working at a creative agency.
• Experience in hospitality or consumer brands.

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