Creative Director

**About Northern**

Headquartered in London, Ontario, Northern is an integrated digital solutions agency that specializes in helping leading Retail and Public Service brands navigate digital change. Leveraging our industry expertise and deep understanding of our clients’ businesses, we collaborate to design, create, and enable tailored digital experiences that drive growth. We have strategically assembled a group of innovators who have a passion for technology, design, and improving digital experiences.

**What We’re Looking For**

We are looking to add a strategic **Creative Director** to our Marketing Design Team.
- Full-time remote is available nationally. Our Connected Workplace Program gives you the option to choose a remote, hybrid, or in-office workspace_

**Benefits of Becoming a Northerner**

In exchange for your talent and expertise, Northern is committed to providing:

- Benefits plan, including a Health Spending Account
- Wellness Program & LifeWorks EAP
- Fitness Reimbursement Program
- Vet Care Program
- RRSP Matching
- Profit-Sharing Performance Bonuses
- Endless Professional Growth Opportunities
- Delicious Meals & Company Social Events
- Free Onsite Parking
- Referral Bonus Program
- Flexible work environment - so you can work where & when you work best
- Allowance to help set up home office

Just to name a few...

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- **Define and implement** strategic and creative approaches for engagements, ensuring alignment with industry trends, recent data, and insights.
- **Lead** and facilitate creative meetings, workshops, and presentations with external and internal stakeholders, fostering collaboration and innovation.
- Demonstrate a **deep understanding **of **client creative and business objectives** to translate briefs into compelling, effective creative concepts and campaigns.
- Maintain and **enhance client relationships **by **directing creative solutions**, providing support to internal stakeholders, and ensuring client satisfaction.
- Present and defend creative concepts to achieve internal and external alignment, **communicating ideas effectively and persuasively**.
- Utilize data insights and analytics,** collaborating with performance marketing teams** to optimize and iterate creative campaigns for maximum impact and ROI.
- Explore and **champion design and AI trends and tactics**, enhancing Northern’s creative offering, client value, and competitive positioning in the market.
- **Define and uphold best practices** for training, tools, design processes, and quality standards, ensuring consistency and excellence in all creative deliverables.
- **Manage team efficiency and budget usage**, providing support for resource allocation and project management.
- **Formulate** policies, procedures, and **strategic plans for future department growt**h and project delivery, contributing to Northern's overall success and expansion.
- Build and maintain relationships with vendors that contribute to Northern's service offerings, capabilities, and overall project success, ensuring effective partnerships.
- Lead team meetings, **provide direction for the department's growth and development**, implement professional development strategies for the team, and provide regular performance feedback to direct reports, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and growth.

**Knowledge, Education & Experience Required**
- 7-10 years’ experience, preferably as an Art Director or Creative Director in an **agency environment**:

- 5+ years’ experience managing a team
- A College diploma, University degree in a related field
- A portfolio with conceptual examples of websites, eCommerce, packaging, brand development, and digital marketing, including paid advertising
- Proficient in the fundamentals of graphic design and the functionality and utilization of the extended Adobe Suite and Sketch
- Experience directing projects that meet accessibility and UI standards combined with UX research

**Bonus Skills**
- Proficiency with Animation, after effects

Since its founding in 2015, Northern has grown to over 155 employees working together to help leading brands across North America navigate digital transformation. As one of only 3% of agency partners awarded Google Premier Partner status, and a Facebook Marketing Partner, Northern is a leader in digital marketing and advertising excellence. Our campaigns have been recognized as best-in-class by the Google Premier Partner Awards, Search Engine Land Awards, the Canadian Search Awards, and more.

Northern’s continued growth, strengthened by our strong company culture, has led to multiple recognitions by Great Place to Work® Canada, including Best Workplaces in Canada, in Ontario, for Women, and for Hybrid Work.

**Equity and Diversity