The Director, Design Shop combines a builder’s mindset with an artist’s mentality. Overseeing Design Shop, Director, Design Shop is a functional and inspirational leader to our internal team of designers who execute brand design and build digital and physical assets for our clients. The Director, Design Shop understands and has experience with every step in the digital production and design process. In addition, they are an entrepreneur at heart and will partner with the CCO to optimize the creative approach and process. The Director, Design Shop will be a design thought leader within the agency, exposing the creative department to new design trends and new creative spaces. 

You are:

·         A leader. Someone who has experience successfully managing a team of creative people. 

·         A listener. Someone who enjoys hearing from others as much as they love being heard.

·         A leader. Someone who has about 10+ years of experience at agencies or in-house (or a combination of both)

·         An innovator. Someone who can draw from the experience of working within a system for devising a better way. And there’s always a better way. 

·         A creative. There’s a reason you got into this business in the first place, and it wasn’t the free coffee. 

·         A business person. Someone who can shift from creativity to practicality when they need to. 

·         An improviser. Success in advertising is directly proportional to your ability to sift through ambiguity. 

Responsibilities:

• To maximize efficiency without compromising creative quality and integrity
• Be the external face and voice of PETERMAYER’s design practice 
• Work with the CCO to craft and execute a vision for the future of digital production at PETERMAYER
• To be the input valve for all work coming into Design Shop to ensure a smooth production process with on-time delivery of creative deliverables
• To be a student of the latest digital and social media trends and educate the creative department on how to build for new creative spaces
• Hire and manage a variety of outside vendors and agencies
• Establish and maintain a network of go-to contract talent to help with expanded workflow
• Interrogate our processes and make recommendations for optimizing the way we work so that we can get to the best creative product
• Put your own talent to work and creatively contribute to lighthouse creative moments within the agency (i.e., big client briefs, internal projects, and new business)

PETERMAYER is an Equal Opportunity Employer.