Senior Creative Director, US Market- Remote

Senior Creative Director – US Remote

Ancestry is looking for a Senior Creative Director to help drive and provide direction to external agency partners responsible for creative across the funnel (branded and performance) in the Ancestry US market. Evolve the creative brand strategy, expression and interpretation pure and at its highest level across multiple channels, including television, digital display advertising, CRM, onsite, social media, and search marketing.

Direct, inspire and ensure in-house creative teams, external agencies and third-party resources are providing the highest level of copywriting, art direction, and design possible, providing daily approvals and direction on creative assignments in US markets.

Provide creative strategic oversight of direct reports, creative directors and staff within the US Market.

What you will do:

Accountable for the creative effectiveness as measured by our internal metrics/targets.
Manage the relationship and career path of direct reports.
Partner with internal teams in Marketing, Product and Corporate to help them articulate their strategy, messaging and tactics and enable creative success.
Partner with Project Management to assign creative to the best internal (and external) teams.
Possess excellent presentation skills.
Ensure self and team are continuously curious and developing web and digital marketing capabilities.
Consistently bring new, innovative ideas to the table, to the delight of your partners.
Participate in development, implementation and maintenance of creative group policies, objectives and short- and long-term planning.
Set priorities based on the highest impact to brand and business results.

Who you are:

Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Art, Film Theory, or related field or equivalent working experience.
7-10 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a creative director-related occupation.
Conceive original creative concepts to earn consumer attention and address a specific marketing challenge within a business.
Initiate and manage complex commercial film productions with budgets from $10,000 – $2,000,000
Manage complex teams of varying skill sets and experience level (from director level to intern level). Motivate, inspire, mentor and lead by example.
Author and build upon foundational creative strategies, based on insights about the consumer, category, product or culture.
Direct third party production resources including editors, sound engineers and voice actors to record, edit and mix audio for broadcast / streaming.
Model an inclusive culture throughout the department by ensuring respectful and equitable practices amongst team members.

In the US, if you’re based in CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, ID, IL, IN, MA, MI, MN, MT, NV, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY, or NY (excluding NYC), you’ll have the option to work remotely.