Associate Creative Director

Legion Creative Group, Ltd.
Glendale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/2/2024


Legion Creative is a fully integrated advertising agency dedicated to delivering great strategy & creative for entertainment properties. We produce some of the world's most recognizable campaigns for film, TV/streaming, live and home media clients. 

 

As an Associate Creative Director  you will create, develop & execute multi-channel creative concepts, designs and messaging strategies across all consumer touch-points from print and digital, to experiential, retail and packaging. Your creative talent is industry leading, you lead by example on how to be an effective communicator to get large projects produced on time and within budget for clients. 

 

You must have a passion & strong experience with theatrical animation projects. You have strong photo manipulation and illustration skills, with tremendous attention to detail. Must have a great understanding of color, anatomy, lighting, perspective. You will create concepts to a high standard “FOMP” for our discerning theatrical & streaming clients on animation & live action content, mostly in the print marketing domain. You are multi-skilled & can also lend your hand to Finishing.

 

You are proactive and embrace change positively. In order to reflect the initial, on-going and future requirements of Legion, you show an ability to grow alongside Legion by being flexible and adapting to the changing needs of the business.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Deliver a range of innovative, on-brief creative ideas. Creating original & high quality work that maintains & enhances Legions’ reputation for creative excellence. 
  • Produce creative ideas that consistently rank high with clients 
  • Deliver on a range of concepting & art direction tasks including: overall campaign look and feel, image searches for mood stimulus, layout and design creation, photography key visuals and print creative.
  • Creating finished level comps (“FOMPS”), tailored to the preferred styles of or clients. 
  • Present ideas to internal and external partners including: Art direction (look and feel of slides, references and visual world building) & presentation skills (persuade and inspire your audience around your creative vision)
  • Participate and contribute in brainstorming sessions and in new business opportunities
  • Help build client relationships through the delivery of high quality conceptual thinking and thoughtful discussion
  • Work collaboratively with our team of passionate creatives and have a strong drive to a successful execution with all constituents on board, able to take & execute direction from client, Creative Director & Account Services. 
  • Give constructive feedback and input to design team. You hold others accountable for achieving results/ 
    Commitment to meeting demanding client timelines, highly organized, multi-tasking on multiple projects.


JOB REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university, or one to two years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience: 

At least 10 years’ experience working client or agency side servicing major film studios on major theatrical animation titles in the print marketing domain. 

  • Significant experience working within the key areas of marketing communications such as: Marketing Strategy, Concepts/Creative, Key Art Development, Creative, Finishing, 3D/POS/Print or similar areas.
  • Expert in Photoshop, In Design and Illustrator. Having knowledge of Photography and 3D is a plus.
  • Strong typography skills & type design
  • Knowledge & adherence to film industry security requirements. Must have experience of television, film, still photographic production, art direction and print production terminology and best practices & content security requirements.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, Slack, Zoom, Google Sheets, Docs, & Slides. 


Legion Creative is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are a company free of prejudice and one that fully respects and embraces diversity.

Salary Range: 165,000-175,000 Annual




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