[Hiring] Senior Director, Brand and Creative Strategy @The Standard

Role Description

The Senior Director, Brand and Creative Strategy leads end-to-end creative development for Corporate Marketing at The Standard. This role leads a team of writers and designers who are dedicated to growing The Standard’s business and building the company brand through storytelling. The role ensures alignment to corporate strategic priorities and delivers creative ideas, concepts and campaigns across channels. This position also partners with Corporate Communications to engage the company in our brand strategy and objectives as well as brand compliance. Occasional travel only (such as for planning purposes, team building, or conferences) may be required.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree with business focus - Master's degree a plus.
• Experience: 8+ years’ progressively responsible experience in marketing or creative services.
• Demonstrated skills in team leadership, strategic thinking, brand management, analysis, vendor management, relationship building and negotiation.
• Ability to communicate and implement plans, leverage and align multiple constituencies.
• Experience negotiating with stakeholders including vendors and business partners, to reach consensus that meets stakeholder needs and delivers output that is effective in the marketplace and meets all corporate and legal guidelines and requirements.
• Comfort in presenting to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with senior leaders, business stakeholders, peers and customers.
• Background meeting tight deadlines to address the urgency of customer needs including negotiating and adjusting priorities and resource allocation as applicable.

Requirements

• Winning Together – Ensure their teams examine a diversity of perspectives before designing and implementing solutions.
• Strategic Visioning – Identify criteria to assess strategic alignment and success of plans tracking against measurable success factors.
• Adaptability – Promote ongoing change and continuous improvement as important aspects of organizational effectiveness and market viability.

Benefits

• A rich benefits package including a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.
• An annual incentive bonus plan.
• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure.
• A supportive and responsive management approach.
• Opportunities for career growth and advancement.
• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools.
• Much more!