Leadership for Creative Teams
OVERVIEW
- Passion for building intuitive, engaging, enterprise and entertainment experiences
- Unique problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Attention to detail and organization
- Strong oral and written communications
- Outstanding ability to self-manage, proactively offer soutions, and initiate action
- Extensive experience managing remote teams
- Flexibility and eagerness to assist with tasks or projects outside of job description
- Acts decisively, promptly and confidently
- Calm under pressure
- Award-winning portfolio
TEAM LEADER
- Extensive experience managing multi-disciplinary creative teams
- Extensive experience managing multi-disciplinary creative teams
- Thorough understanding of the design process for UI, web, print, broadcast, film
- Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and leadership skills
- Fosters a passion for collaboration, problem solving, and creative excellence
PROJECT LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY
- Lead the internal process to execute on the product strategy, roadmap, and priorities
- Facilitates requirements gathering and brainstorming sessions
- Manages dependencies with other teams, negotiating and reprioritizing
- Prioritizes initial tasks, revisions, and other work items for the team
- Establishes clearly articulated sprint goals
- Reviews feedback and requests
- Stays alert to potential issues and leads problem-solving sessions
- Ensures an appropriate level of design consistency across all teams
- Ensures all team members are consistently communicating progress, problems, and
completion - Evaluates, modifies, and creates effective production processes
MENTOR
- Help ensure each team member is meeting their personal and company goals
- Provides critical creative thinking, critiques, and mentorship to shape best-in-class work
- Draws out creative passions and helps develop each persons unique skills
- Imparts a desire to encourage and collaborate with others
HIRE
- Identify personel needs in advance
- Develop job requirements & descriptions
- Work with HR to develop pool of candidates
- Conduct interviews and make recommendations
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- People matter
- Positively focused
- Results oriented
- Problem solving is prized
- Communication driven: Potential problems are identified early and communicated quickly
- Collaborative: Team members work together to find best solutions utilizing each others strengths
- Whole company mindset between departments and managers
- No drama, just great people doing great work
PROJECT TYPES
- Motion Graphics
- UI/UX interaction prototyping
- 3D
- Television and web commercials
- Full video production
- Editing
- Visual effects
- Explainers
- Sizzles
- Product introductions , demos, and walkthroughs
- Multi-Screen events
- Jumbotron/Times Square/Video walls
- Interactive installations
- Presentations
- Web
THE WHOLE PROJECT
Provide creative leadership and direction across multiple disciplines
- Pre/post production planning
- Direct and manage video shoots
- On-set VFX supervision
- Motion graphics supervision
- Editing
- Color
- Sound
- Compression