Thrive in a fast-paced environment?

Want your ideas to be heard?

Like the freedom to create?

Ready to leverage your managerial and hands-on design experience?

If so, we need to talk!…

Located in vibrant Charlotte, NC, Vital Media, Inc. proudly provides brands and retailers with innovative and affordable turn-key retail marketing solutions that lift sales and enhance shopper experience. We customize content to bring brands to life and inspire increased customer transaction values and integrate this content with our customers’ current advertising on-line and off-line to maximize customer experience.

With clients in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada, we’ve been recognized in 2011 by the Charlotte Business Journal as one of the “Best Places to Work”. For two years in a row, we have been recognized as the sixth fastest growing company in the Charlotte metro area. In addition, our Creative Department won an ADDY Award in 2010 and a DIGI Award in 2012 for Best Content in Advertising. Sound like your kind of company? Read on!…

In this mission-critical role, we will rely on you to oversee the creative output of our design team and processes, including the ideation, presentation and execution of client branding.

In fulfillment of our brand promise to our clients, you will also have the opportunity to manage marketing communications campaigns, the profitability and creative quality of client projects, and the operational readiness of the creative team.

Responsibilities:

• Fluent in taking creative briefs and scoping motion graphics work that both fits the timeline and budget, while wowing the clients
• Committed to not just fulfilling an assignment, but creating work that makes a difference
• Solicit and act on client feedback
• Direct creative function and directly manage design staff
• Managing art direction, design, copywriting and production of projects
• Quality control (including proofing, reviewing, measuring and evaluating staff performance)
• Manage schedules, budgets and overall project organization to ensure regular and profitable deliverables
• Ensure creative product placement in the market
• Passion for emerging technologies
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to create individually and collaboratively as a team
• Maintains a strategic and creative vision that supports the goals of the client
• Actively prioritize and translate internal and external client projects, marketing goals and information into strategic brand concepts, voice, messages and rationales
• Write and present cohesive and persuasive rationales for campaign approaches
• Lead marketing/concept/design and post-production execution as well as interactive/web/video/motion graphics
• Ensure the professional development of the creative team
• Manage the evolution of Vital Media’s technology needs
• Revamp company website and marketing collateral
• Strong client facing communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Managing outside resources including vendors, printers, freelancers, web and interactive sub-contractors

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Our ideal candidate will be a proactive and natural leader with an affinity for creativity and design.  We’re seeking a hands-on executor, not just a manager.  The ability to effectively lead a team while being an individual contributor is a must.  If you’re ready to continue moving our cutting-edge company forward into the market, your opportunity is knocking!

Required skills and experience:

• 3+ years direct managerial experience
• 5+ years design experience
• Must be proficient in After Effects, MS Office, inDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and a 3D program such as Maya
• Superior understanding of marketing communications strategies and tactics, including technologies
• Superior understanding of advertising and marketing principles
• Demonstrated talent for high-caliber creative concept and writing
• Ability to judge creative concepts and copy, and clearly communicate creative direction to others
• Thorough understanding of on-line and off-line Marketing Communication production elements
• Working knowledge of Key Frame Animation and Motion Graphics
• Understanding of interactive media production; interactive user interface, and mobile content creation

Preferred:

• Bachelor degree strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of print and multimedia

Benefits:

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive salary and an extensive benefits package including:

• Paid time off
• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Gym membership
• Education benefits
• Future growth opportunities with the company!

In addition, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

To Apply:

Send cover letter, resume and a link to your website, portfolio or reel to:

careers@vitalmedia.com

(Applicants with no link to website, portfolio or reel will not be considered)

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