iCrossing is a global digital marketing company that combines talent and technology to help world-class brands find and connect with their customers. The company blends best-in-class digital marketing services -- including paid and natural search marketing, Web development, social media, research and analytics -- to create integrated digital marketing programs that engage consumers and drive ROI. iCrossing clients include over 40 Fortune 500 companies and such recognized brands as The Coca Cola Company, DuPont, Office Depot, Toyota and Travelocity. Headquartered in Scottsdale , Arizona , the company has 550 employees in 13 offices in the U.S. and Europe . Find out more at www.icrossing.com.

You are a designer. You live and breathe design and have the portfolio to support it. You are an entrepreneur. You have the innate ability to manage projects, people and client expectations. A designer with a knack for marketing it all comes together in the Art Director role at iCrossings Los Angeles office. Here, where the beach meets the bleeding edge, youll provide forward-thinking creative leadership and inspire creative collaboration within our agency.

With a trained eye on challenging the industry status quo, youll be continually engaged in delivering outstanding work on projects large and small, from web engagements to display advertising and internal promotions to external presentations. Equally comfortable leading a team of designers, presenting to clients, and defining strategy, youll also get to keep your own creative muscles flexed as you personally create and design for our ever-expanding list of Fortune 500 clients. Adjectives used to describe your creative workkiller, award-winning, re-defining, how did they do that? Adjectives to describe your management skillscool, calm, organized.



Major Job Accountabilities:


· Provide forward-thinking creative leadership

· Inspire creative collaboration across the organization

· Effectively translate branding and marketing strategies for a wide range of clients/verticals into exceptional creative concepts and executions

· Develop and create innovative concepts in keeping with project scope: strategic positioning, business requirements, timelines, and budgets

· Lead design team in delivery of outstanding design for all-things digital: large scale web engagements, online advertising, digital marketing, business development initiatives, brand boards, and video

· Serve as mentor to design team

· Prepare creative deliverables (brand boards, creative comps, and style guides)

· Present creative concepts internally and externally

· Manage entire creative process and large-scale projects

Requirements:

· 4-year degree in a related field

· 3-4 years in a leadership role in an interactive, design, or advertising agency

· Proven success in online and offline media delivered in an impressive portfolio of work
(electronic submission or URL preferred)

· Consistent display of interest and involvement in the industry. Applicants are encouraged to include links/references to relevant activities that help round out their experience and interests. These references could be participation in or utilization of online communities, forums, blogs, ezines, contests, and/or personal projects.

· Expert capabilities in website design and user interface information architecture implementation

· Extensive experience implementing web design best practices and highly intuitive visual design techniques

· Understanding of capabilities and restrictions of selected technologies in the online space (HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash)

· To digest complexity and deliver simplicity

· Superior design skills

· Strong concepting skills

· Passion for the creative process

· Excellent communication skills

· Keen organization and project management skills

· Desire to work with art directors and designers of all levels

· Self-motivated, entrepreneurial

· Can-do attitude and positive work ethic

· Cultivates teamwork

· Good problem-solving skills

· Strong presentation skills

Click the following link to apply online:
https://www.hirebridge.com/application/appchoice.asp?jid=62867

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