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Creative Director

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Auctane

Auctane

1,001-5,000 employees

Provides shipping and logistics technology solutions

Data & Analytics

Senior

Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid model requiring in-office presence Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Category
Animation
Graphic Design
Art, Graphics & Animation
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Figma
Wordpress
Social Media
SEO
Sketch
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Demonstrated track record at the Creative Director level in the software industry, including managing a multi-national, multi-time zone team that has successfully engaged with a broad stakeholder set.
  • Talent for developing elevated aesthetics, visually cohesive campaigns, and the ability to tell a powerful story through the work.
  • Experience working with consumer brands and B2B brands, ideally with exposure to ecommerce or logistics sectors.
  • Has shaped planning and execution of multiple, complex creative initiatives, led brand transitions, experimentation, and proven ROI growth.
  • Strong design training and instincts with a proven track record of leading - both direct management as well as cross-team influence - to reach creative campaign goals.
  • Comfortable with providing creative feedback and managing feedback processes.
  • Experience in agency and vendor selection and oversight, plus negotiating best partnership strategy to balance in-source and out-sourced work.
  • Manages direct teams and managers, as well as cross-functional teams and brings a proven track record of performance optimization.
  • Ability to act as a player-coach by executing creative work when needed to get the job done.
  • Strong leadership presence serves as a senior leader within a company, influential with a diverse group of stakeholders and can create buy-in across an interdisciplinary talent set.
  • Solid experience in applying workflow tools and management systems that optimize resource productivity and deliver work on time, anticipating plan changes and adjustments, proactively seeking stakeholder input to align expectations.
  • Well versed in all advertising mediums and their appropriate usage including social media, display, SEO, SEM, audio, video, TV advertising and mobile channels.
  • Leverage research, analytics and brand insights to optimize and improve creative performance.
  • Demonstrated experience building personal knowledge of complex businesses as well as experience building comprehension and knowledge across one’s team.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced growth environment, highly organized, detail-oriented and able to multitask.
  • Bachelor's Degree required in Marketing, Art or Design. Masters degrees in Design or other related higher level education degrees are ideal.
  • Successful record of expanding responsibility including Creative Director roles in PE- back companies.
  • Flair for the creative and fresh ideas.
  • Excellent communication and organization skills.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects.
  • Familiarity or an understanding of UI/ Web layout programs like Sketch, Adobe XD or Figma.
  • Experience working with experimentation and testing platforms such as Optimizely and usertesting.com.
  • Web design experience an advantage, especially using HTML5 and WordPress.
  • Experience or an understanding of working within brand guidelines/ style guides and design systems.
Responsibilities
  • Brand Leadership for Auctane’s family of brands, aligning creative initiatives that deploy through paid and owned media channels - both online and offline to grow new user acquisition, activation, and engagement.
  • Execute creative for rapid experimentation of new channels, campaigns, events, incentives, and approaches for the purpose of building scalable demand generation.
  • Recruit and lead a team of skilled designers and content producers to supply marketing campaigns through ideation, execution, and delivery, continually raising the bar with high impact creative.
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders across the organization including product management, sales, marketing, operations, and communications.
  • Raise the bar in creative and design best practice implementation at Auctane, serving as a role model for designers and marketers across the organization.
Auctane

Auctane

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Auctane provides a suite of technology solutions, including ShipStation, Stamps.com, Packlink, ShipEngine, and Metapack, to address logistic challenges with same-day delivery, intuitive shipping software, and a network of 3PL providers. The technology orchestrates the movement of millions of letters and packages globally, serving over 1,000,000 customers annually and reaching 250 countries and territories.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2011

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 0%

1 year growth

↓ -1%

2 year growth

↑ 11%