Creative Job Description
Creative
provides direction to photographers, designers, directors, editors, and other vendors as they relate to the creative output.
Creative Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective creative job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included creative job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Manage the work of the Writer/Producers/Editors and vendors
Responsible for guiding a creative team of employees in a motion graphics, on-air promo’s setting
Editorial content creation in television or digital environments, ideally both and to a senior level
Content development, with a strong digital fluency
Public speaking and strong writing ability
Define, drive and communicate creative vision for the game’s design and pillars
Concept and pitch high level game ideas that support a specific product vision or general studio vision
Champion the player experience and knowledge of mobile player’s needs
Ensure needs of all system, content, story and level designs are being met
Ensure Design documentation is a level actionable by development staff
Creative Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Creative
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, QA, DCS, MCSE, FB, MPM, PRINCE2, CSM, CAPM
Education for Creative
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the creative job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Marketing, Design, Graphic Design, Advertising, Communications, Education, Business, Art, English, Fine Arts
Skills for Creative
Desired skills for creative include:
Illustrator
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop
InDesign
Directors
Photographers
Illustrators
Production personnel
Recommends those that are best suited to achieving the desired results
Talent
Desired experience for creative includes:
Eligible candidate pool will be asked to submit a portfolio of work and may be asked to interview with multiple UP&L Team Members and Executives
Willingness to travel for business when necessary
Bachelors or higher degree in design with practical experience working within a licensing/ agency environment
Must have background in consumer products and packaging, with demonstrable experience in approvals of product and packaging
Sensitivity to cultural habits and trends across the international markets and how these impact product development
Must be able to prioritize workload, develop strong working relationships with international clients and work in a collaborative cross-functional team
Creative Examples
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of creative. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for creative
- Works with the Show Producer to identify and procure talent and resources necessary to complete the project
- Provides guidelines and supervises special projects, such as on-air campaigns for novelas, launches for entertainment and news shows network initiatives that will increase ratings and brand awareness
- To lead and manage project teams delivering world-class user-experience
- Providing expert consultancy and inspirational design management to projects across a range of scales, working with a mix of in-house teams, design agencies, or software vendors and integrators to ensure the best possible experience
- Promote user-centred design, ensuring a coherent user interface that supports the aims of the business
- Build relationships with internal management teams to know the ins and outs of their departments and better understand their needs
- Hunt and gather in both traditional and unorthodox ways
- Negotiate every detail of hiring a future team member down to the every detail
- Engage UX Research team by participating in or consulting throughout research process
- Will be responsible for a portion of the creative solutions in their entirety
Qualifications for creative
- Computer literate on Mac and PC with good Microsoft Office skills
- Must have experience of, and an ability to work within, defined creative development procedures
- A minimum of 5 years experience in on-air promotion/production for a cable television channel, with a solid working knowledge of all aspects of production
- Reports to VP, Brand Design the Creative Director will be responsible for the overall “look and feel” of the Oxygen brand across all platforms
- Manage in-house design team, mentor and train-up Jr
- Exceptional time management, communication and organizational skills
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a creative. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative
- Acts as “vision-keeper” for the project team
- Collaborates with Show Producer to maintain the desired creative intent
- Creates and presents project materials to internal and external audiences to advocate and communicate project concept, content and status
- Supports in the process of creating and producing original and engaging promos promotional materials and interstitials according to a brief, timeline and budget as agreed
- Supports on the development of projects with the Lead Creative and Creatives throughout the production process
- Communicates throughout the stages of production to the rest of the department and where necessary other departments within the company
- Has the confidence to pitch and present ideas to the team
- Proactively offers creative ideas, where appropriate, as part of the creative development process
- Is an engaged and enthusiastic team member, proactively sharing ideas and always committing to best practice
- Be willing to write everything from social posts, blog posts, brochures and brandedcontenttoTV, radio and long form video concepts
Qualifications for creative
- Expert in various web development tools such as HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript
- In-depth knowledge of global brand equity, management and marketplace
- In partnership with the Art Director, concept and develop exceptional creative work
- Solid understanding of the product development cycle and what it takes to ship a game on quality, time and budget
- Lead visual identity development for HD titles
- Direct creative execution of brand bibles and franchise design toolkits for cohesive visual brand identities
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Our company is looking for a creative. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for creative
- Designing web pages and landing pages using a Magneto platform
- Use behavioral marketing techniques to engage online customers to generate additional revenue and increase user experience
- Develop online advertising material to drive e-commerce marketing strategy
- Design and produce graphics materials related to the company’s sales and marketing efforts
- Paginate, layout, and collect catalog files for final production
- Interpret briefs including creative concepts and to work them into suitable and robust draft copies and/or graphic art files
- Achieve all agreed targets relating to the delivery of artwork and pre-press materials
- Deliver artwork of a consistent quality which meets the client brief and to follow this through to final artwork delivery, undertaking amendments and corrections to proofs as required
- Ensure that the storage and management of all artwork follows INWK procedures and policies at all times
- Carry out additional duties and responsibilities from time to time as required by INWK
Qualifications for creative
- Expert level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, with ability to execute high-level creative concepts
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in design management in a newspaper setting
- Must have experience in art direction of stories, projects and sections
- Prefer experience in newspaper redesign
- Strong track record as print designer, creative designer and newsroom manager is necessary
- Excellent analytical skills and leadership abilities necessary
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Our company is looking to fill the role of creative. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative
- Full life-cycle recruiting of marketing and creative professionals for contract and direct hire roles in the fashion, beauty, lifestyle and advertising industries
- Contributes to preliminary strategy formation for each new project (Digital & Direct)
- Craft project estimates and work with project management on implementation
- Leads team to identify and solve marketing problems from a creative perspective
- Creative Production from PSDs and other files
- Develop fully interactive rich media ad units intended to engage the user
- Resize and/or Revise ad units
- Compile KPI report for Team Lead
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to set the strategy of how design brings the brand to life and use this strategy to guide the priorities and output of your team
- Implement, test and iterate on different game mechanics
Qualifications for creative
- Comfort with Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, and other contemporary design tools
- Flexibility - ability to respond with a positive and flexible approach to competing priorities
- Ability to conceptualize and turn a seed of an idea into a fully integrated, successful program concept
- Ability to juggling multiple projects and deadlines
- Ability to lead a team and provide mentoring to junior team members
- Strong exceptional communication, networking, influencing and persuading skills
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a creative. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative
- Produce professional quality code
- Follow best practices for documentation, testing, and code reviews
- Partnering with key stakeholders to identify opportunities and to understand customer needs and business requirements
- Working with the Head of UI/UX Design and the Head of Design Strategy (and other design leaders) to set the Design team direction and strategy – developing and refining how we engage and inspire the business, setting the overall creative direction, establishing the set-up and workflow of the team
- Participating with senior stakeholders on shaping overall wider vision and strategy for experiences, products and services, particularly in areas of specific expertise
- Contribute to the development and adoption of innovative interactive/web principles and ideas across the broader team
- Oversees brand development and design for The Oklahoman, contribute to NewsOK, Oklahoman Direct, and BigWing Interactive
- Contribute to and guide Advertising Sales national and local sales efforts by creating, analyzing and leveraging data that identifies sales opportunities, influences sales initiatives and proposals, and informs sales reps on competitive and category data, industry trends
- Provide support to other organizations in the company, including Circulation, Audience Development and NIC, to Strategy teams
- Represent the brand creatively wherever necessary
Qualifications for creative
- 2+ years of prior experience working as a Recruiter or Sourcer for Creative and UX positions
- Strong interest in visual design and user experience
- Strong understanding of the interactive industry/business overall and associated technologies and trends
- 3+ years in story development, publishing, game development, or other story development on other interactive platforms
- Must also have strong knowledge of MS office products, , MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel Adobe
- Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field of study, or equivalent work experience