Here is the posting on the Sears site<\/a><\/p>\nTitle: Creative Director<\/p>\n
Location: Downtown Chicago Illinois<\/p>\n
Job Description:
\nFunctional Visual Design expertise is mandatory along with team management and client facing skills. Requires the capabilities to direct and enhance the efforts of the creative teams focusing on gaming experiences and consisting of design managers, designers and copywriters in an online gaming environment.<\/p>\n
We are searching for a highly conceptual team leader who is constructive, fearless, charismatic, smart, self-possessed and committed to a vision. Passion, perspective, innovation and impact are the Sears core values a potential candidate will be expected to embody.<\/p>\n
The successful candidate will have a well-rounded understanding of:
\n\u2022 Mapping out and implementing game play logic
\n\u2022 Graphic design, information architecture, usability, technology, and experience design
\n\u2022 Applied conceptual strategy, brainstorm facilitation, day-to-day shepherding of a project to completion
\n\u2022 Team collaboration with engagement managers, production, and technology leads
\n\u2022 Creating backgrounds, characters, objects, and UI
\n\u2022 Leading and directing cross-disciplinary development and execution of short-term (project specific) and long-term (engagement specific) creative strategies.
\n\u2022 Representing and communicating Sears creative and business philosophy, methodology and capabilities to larger organization, as well as across all departments, business units and service lines
\n\u2022 Seeking out opportunities to collaborate across the Sears network with the OBU<\/p>\n
Key Job Responsibilities:
\n\u2022 Fulfills leadership tasks and deliverables of a CD in support of the office of the Executive Producer. Specifically, leads and directs across disciplines, the development and execution of short term (project specific) and long term (account specific) creative strategies.
\n\u2022 Ensures creative scope, schedule and budget are accurate. Develops and signs-off on creative estimates and ensures high quality, profitable execution of creative deliverables.
\n\u2022 Provide strategic program direction and leadership, team management and stewardship for idea through implementation, of the various existing and evolving company\u2019s business systems, solutions and processes, including the emerging commercial products space.
\n\u2022 Develops and executes account growth strategies with account core team members to meet account goals set by the engagement lead
\n\u2022 Coordinates with group director and resource manager in projections for, and assignment of, creative discipline group members to projects
\n\u2022 Maintains an awareness of status and project deliverables of all discipline group members’ project work
\n\u2022 Provide visual direction during the pre-production, production, and post-production phases of game development
\n\u2022 Oversee all aspects of creative design including particle effects, animation, color choices, logo treatments, etc.
\n\u2022 Supervise a team of internal\/external artists, identifying the appropriate needs and resources to support the growing business
\n\u2022 Inspire creativity and style that will continue to innovate how art can be used in a game
\n\u2022 Participates constructively in inter-department and cross-service line communications
\n\u2022 Contributes to the evolution and maintenance of each creative discipline workflow<\/p>\n
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
\nEight to ten years of professional experience – six years minimum as a senior level professional in at least two of the following areas: game interface design, interactive design, advertising, interactive advertising, marketing, publishing, broadcast, film or television
\n\u2022 High level of creativity whose art choices will appeal to the casual gamer market
\n\u2022 Clear understanding of how to integrate backgrounds, characters, objects, and UI to ensure continuity, clarity, and enhanced game play
\n\u2022 Strong technical knowledge to integrate art into a game
\n\u2022 Strong creative and conceptual vision for interactive, and the ability to execute high quality integrated interactive communications against strategic business objectives
\n\u2022 Solid ability to weave game play with storytelling art
\n\u2022 Is an expert in graphic design; demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other graphic designers
\n\u2022 Strong comprehension of information architecture and editorial disciplines and methodologies
\n\u2022 Mastery of project concept creation, site architecture, user-interface specification, functionality specification and interactive design
\n\u2022 Strong understanding of front-end interactive design solutions for back-end data systems. Working knowledge of capabilities of different platforms and browsers, and their design constraints on the Web
\n\u2022 Ability to direct creative teams including flash designers, designers, and writers
\n\u2022 Bachelors degree or higher in a relevant creative discipline (experience and training may be substituted)
\n\u2022 Online portfolio review required
\n\u2022 Has successfully directed\/ managed multidisciplinary creative teams in the production of Interactive and web based products, and has worked in multi-disciplinary teams that included project managers, artists, designers, writers, and engineers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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