Creative Director

Chicago –

Introduction

Envoy is an end-to-end digital consultancy that helps organizations accelerate growth through connected customer experiences. Trusted by iconic brands and tomorrow's category leaders, Envoy's multidisciplinary team of strategists, designers, and technologists deliver client impact through brand building, ecommerce, digital products, built environments, marketing and communications. Headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in San Diego and Chicago, Envoy transforms experiences for clients such as T-Mobile, VIZIO, Arlo, Nike and Diageo.

Opportunity

Envoy’s digital environments team is seeking a Creative Director with conceptual, technical and aesthetic prowess to join us on a journey of creating never-before-seen immersive experiences at the nexus of design, storytelling, digital media, and interaction.

This is a hybrid position based out of our Chicago office.

What You Will Do

You’ll Transform spaces into immersive storytelling environments through design and technology. Clients look to you to solve creative problems they can’t, while the design team expects you to establish the parameters for their work. A Creative Director answers the what, why, and how that a team uses as a “true north” to guide all of their decision-making.

A Creative Director will have an intimate knowledge of the limits and needs of a production’s pipeline and workflow; they are the Producer’s trusted partner in developing schedules and budgets to deliver a successful project.

Most of a Creative Director’s time is spent with clients, developing presentations, and collaborating with their producer and creative team to establish the look and feel of a project. A Creative Director is expected to be continually developing their voice and vision as an artist as they are often the most visible member of a design studio.

You Can:

Use design thinking and strategic research methods to shape a creative brief through client brainstorms and vision sessions. Examples include:

Journey Mapping
Narrative development
User Personas

Pitch and present creative ideas clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of the creative team.
Develop concepts for media rich physical spaces such as innovation centers, architectural installations, trade events, briefing centers, or museum exhibitions.
Direct Storyboards + Styleframes: A strong understanding of immersive storytelling techniques allows you to develop styleframes for pitching as well as generating imagery from scratch in various styles.
Design for interactivity: Understand the principles of UX/UI design for interactive and screen-based media.
Collaborate effectively with the production team on determining budget, project plan, schedule, and how to best manage a project from bid to final render.
Apply brand identity systems, typography, photography, color, and other visual elements appropriately to create innovative solutions to client needs
Mentor and support the growth of designers to develop in their skills
Maintain management and supervision of concurrent design projects/timelines and assigned hours

Additional Skills
In addition to the skills above, you may want to sharpen your skills in the following areas:

Advanced Motion Workflow / Advanced Interactive Workflow: As a Creative Director with a strong focus on design, strengthening your understanding of production workflows will help you understand the requirements and capabilities of your production team, allowing you to better understand how to take advantage of 3D or Real-time tools in your pitch and design work.
Architectural / Spatial visualization.

What We Offer

The salary range for this position is between $140,000 to $160,000 plus benefits. Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.

Envoy offers 100% employer-paid health and dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Envoy is committed to equity.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our community. Envoy does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.