Creative Director - Conceptualize

Req ID:303557

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Creative Director - Conceptualize to join our team in New York, New York (US-NY), United States (US).

Launch by NTT DATA hires exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. We're an inclusive, adaptable, forward-thinking organization, and we're constantly seeking talented individuals who are the same. If this sounds like you, keep reading.

We are currently seeking a Creative Director to join our US-based Strategic Growth team. This person has built out concepts and visuals. They have worked on projects around technology.

Location: While this is a remote role, the preference is to have someone in the New York or surrounding area allowing occaisonal team meetings.

As a Creative Director, you'll contribute to some of the most ambitious work we share with clients. You'll support our Strategic Growth team as we build relationships with prospective clients in conversations, workshops, editorial experiences, and more, and you'll collaborate with other practitioners to produce visuals that bring innovative technology ideas and narratives to life.

Our team is comprised of a diverse group of practitioners with backgrounds in media, politics, publishing, content strategy, design, government, and more. If you love to rally clients around a great story rooted in strategy and then help ship solutions that turn that story into reality, we'd love to meet you.

Who you are:

• You're an experienced, compassionate, and opinionated designer who loves to use your technical fluency to make incredibly ambitious things that are also realistic
• You're optimistic and curious by nature and interested in understanding how AI will impact us all
• Your talent isn't limited to screens; you have a passion for visual and brand design across industries, devices, and platforms
• You stay at the cutting edge of trends and techniques in the technology, design, and creative space, and you're always ready with a hot take or fresh perspective on visual design and product development
• You want to contribute to strategic research, ideation, and storytelling in addition to producing designed artifacts
• You're skilled at creating and directing creation of a variety of client-facing storytelling and visual deliverables and can guide teammates through your vision
• You can work independently with minimal guidance, relying on your experience and intuition to give you confidence
• You excel at working through ambiguity with a team to deliver a clear vision
• You can adapt your message in advance and on the fly so that it resonates with different audiences
• You excel at reading the room and communicating ideas to clients, stakeholders, and teammates at all levels of seniority
• You enjoy the variety of working with diverse groups of busy stakeholders and colleagues on timelines short and long

• You enjoy a challenge and are looking to grow with a team that values optimism, intuition, and trust
• You believe giving and receiving feedback is a skill, and you lead by example
  

What you'll be doing:

• Developing creative directions and concepts for client-facing artifacts and marketing efforts, including: high-fidelity designs of digital products and experiences, emerging technology solutions, storyboard narratives, social media assets, prototypes, and more
• Crafting immersive digital campaigns and visuals that captivate and engage our clients and express the Launch perspective
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and strategists to develop visual concepts and ensure they're both aspirational and representative of a feasible development process
• Researching market and industry trends to inform a compelling visual and creative direction for client proposals
• Supporting the creation and refinement of client proposals and other public-facing documents
• Contributing to and facilitating workshops with peers and clients from time to time

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with marketing, sales, brand, creative, and/or product strategy as part of multi-disciplinary teams
• Versatility is essential; you should bring comfort and confidence to a variety of design venues, from screens of all sizes to editorial on the printed page
• Proven track record in brand and/or visual design with a strong portfolio showcasing expertise and demonstrating an ability to bring dynamic and engaging visuals to life
• Exceptional skills in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and familiarity with emerging design tools and software, including the use of artificial intelligence tools
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint) and SharePoint
• Experience in and love for presenting big ideas to clients and stakeholders and absorbing feedback for design iteration
• Proven track record of successfully working with deadlines and ambiguity, as well as sharing in-progress work at all levels of fidelity
• Ability to rapidly build expertise on new businesses and industries and a deep understanding of the technology space with an interest in the latest UX and visual trends
• You can explain a design system and an API to a dentist or a zookeeper
• Strong opinions, weakly held

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in 3D rendering software (such as Blender) and motion graphics
• Prior experience working with major brands and provocative challengers in a client services / agency environment

Basic Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with marketing, sales, brand, creative, and/or product strategy as part of multi-disciplinary teams
• Has created visual ideas and concepts.

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