Director of Creative Services
Wasserman, United States
Job Description
Wasserman powers the business of sports, music, entertainment and culture. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world’s most iconic sports and entertainment figures, music artists, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide.
Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman operates globally across 27 countries and more than 62 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.
We’re seeking an experienced Creative Services Director to join our bustling Creative Department headquartered in Brooklyn. We are a rapidly growing global agency, doing primarily experiential work for some of the world’s most iconic brands. Our ever-growing team needs a multitalented creative services director to ensure the smooth day-to-day function of our creative studio, while also contributing to the organized growth, resourcing, expansion and recruitment of our team’s future.
Who You Are
You’re a hyper-organized people-person with ample experience working with creative teams, including roles such as Art Directors, Copywriters, Designers, and 3D Environmental Artists. You’re an industry veteran and have a network of professional relationships across the creative spectrum. Project management tools and software give you warm, fuzzy feelings especially when using them to effectively collaborate with Project Management leads and Creative Team members. Your knowledge and expectations of talented creatives gives you trusted authority to help navigate through full-time and freelance portfolios, all while coordinating their contributions to client work and internal needs.
What You’ll Do
The Director of Creative Services will work in lockstep with our Project Management lead to help ensure the right creatives are on the right projects.
Above all, you’ll have an intimate understanding and tight grasp of what’s on team members plates at any given time. You’ll coordinate and track the bandwidth of internal team members to ensure they’re working efficiently and healthily. Additionally, you’ll lead the charge in doing the same for external and freelance resources.
Working with our project management tools and software, you’ll manage the annual freelance budget, maintain up-to-date records data to ensure our teams operate with smooth synchronicity across a wide array of projects and clients.
Responsibitlies:
- Managing the creative team’s bandwidth, intake and output
- Maintain an understanding of clients, current and upcoming projects, team skillset, and project types to be able to provide recommendations around staffing
- Developing a trusting and communicative relationship with creative team members
- Organizing and coordinating freelance resourcing as needed
- Organizing and assisting in staffing open full-time and freelance roles
- Excellent communication skills, presenting internally when appropriate.
- Regular attendance, teamwork, initiative, dependability and promptness
- Identify opportunities for process improvement
- Managing and reconciling freelance budget, developing tracking documents and necessary processes to keep senior leadership informed
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience
- Have a working knowledge of project management tools and software
- Have a strong understanding of Project, Team and Agency Budgets
- Ability to multi-task across concurrent projects
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to intelligently prioritize within a complex matrix of competing obligations
Benefits
Base salary range: $135-165K, plus bonus potential if applicable for role.
Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc. The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role