Creative Director, Exhibitions in POLAND

For any experiential creative, this is a dream role...please keep reading.

You have creative freedom, you travel, you rub elbows with clients and suppliers at trade shows across the world, learning, taking notes, expressing opinions, selling the concepts and ideas that you believe in. You are directing creative while helping our clients achieve massive success, and using your skills, knowledge, and intuition to make and discuss concepts that look absolutely stunning. You are the creative heart of the company, and will be the go-to creative expert our team will look to (and our clients will look to) for guidance and direction. You must have a creative vision...a strong point of view, and a deep understanding and caring for our clients. You must have the fortitude to push designers when the results are not to your expectations. You must have high standards and to hold the people around you to the same high standards. Your office can be in Bali, LA, Rio, Barcelona....anywhere you can imagine, but your mind should be singularly focused on growing yourself, your team, and your clients through relentless and dedicated creative excellence.

But, if you're not a experiential creative, please do not apply. This means art directors (graphics), motion graphics people, interactive designers, or any other generalized creative directors. All of these people who are not structural event designers, it's not for you. The person applying to this role has at least 5 years experience doing 3D designs and renderings for TRADE SHOW EXHIBITS. If this is not you, please do not apply because there is no point.

About us

Global Creative is an international event agency specializing in the design, construction, and management of trade fair booths at conferences throughout Europe and the USA. We are seeking a full-time Creative Director to directly interact and present creative concepts to our clients, while managing a team of remote Exhibit Designers and Graphic Designers.

How to apply

1. Please read through the information below in detail, paying special attention to the Core Values, Outcomes, and Competencies.
2. Ask yourself: Do the company Core Values align with my own? Can I achieve the outcomes described? Do I have the competencies listed? Have I managed a creative team in the past, being directly responsible for their output?
3. If yes to all of the above, and your English in on a high level, then we want to speak with you. send an email to: scott@globalcreative.eu with “Creative Director Position” in the subject. Include your CV, portfolio samples and some times you’re available to meet.

Core Values at Global Creative

1. Expert Partnership We bring speed, value, and respect to every interaction, building strong partnerships by guiding our clients to their goals with confidence, clarity, and directness in all our actions and words.
2. Practical, Creative Solutions We solve challenges in uncommon, creative ways, delivering value that makes our clients’ lives easier and helps them stand out, increasing their industry status and visibility.
3. Radical ownership We exercise extreme ownership in our relationships, our projects, and our challenges, and embrace all three as opportunities for continual growth. We take calculated risks, think ahead, and proactively drive work forward to magnify our impact.
4. Guided by Integrity We make confident, ethical decisions to resolve issues and to deliver successful, complaint-free events.
5. Maximizing Client Success We achieve extraordinary outcomes for our clients, unlocking their full potential by consistently delivering results that exceed expectations, build lasting trust, and ensure maximum customer retention.

Creative Director Mission

The mission for the Creative Director is to devise the most useful, valuable, and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their trade show goals through exhibit and graphic design. We need you to devise unique structural concepts and graphics, combined with efficient and practical space planning solutions and a client-focused ability to sell your ideas using beautifully rendered visuals, written copy, and diagrams. The person in this role will be continuously thinking of new and clever ways to help our clients achieve visual impact and engagement on the show floor.

Outcomes required

1. Write detailed Creative Brief for all projects and get approval on it from client and Client Services within 24 hours of initial client meeting.
2. Devise a unique design idea or creative hook based on the Creative Brief that achieves a sale-to-proposal percentage of 60% or higher. How is this achieved?
3. Thoughtful, practical ideas: on-brief, cost-efficient, minimal negative impacts, easily built and transported
4. Beautiful booth architecture: large graphic areas, simple, easy to understand structure, good lighting, good camera angles
5. Dramatic, hyper-realistic 3D renderings: Software skills (you or someone you hire) to create high detail visuals, with wide variations of light/dark, and depth
6. Delivery at speed: 1 week or less from client meeting to completed final renderings with pricing
7. Rigorous cost/value analysis for all proposals, with all design decisions fully justified from the creative brief
8. Construction knowledge and software skills (you or someone you hire) to create detailed technical build drawings with dimensions and material callouts, with a 1% error rate or less.
9. All designs sourced and documented for the Client Services team for pricing within 4 days from client meeting
10. Provide helpful creative direction and management for all 3D design, graphic design and video production, to achieve client approvals within 3 revisions or less
11. Develop and manage a robust and dedicated Creative department that will help with all the outcomes you are responsible for.

Competencies required

• Efficiency. Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
• Honesty/integrity. Does not cut corners on ethics. Earns trust and maintains confidences. Does what is right, not just what is politically expedient. Speaks plainly and truthfully.
• Organization and planning. Plans, organizes, schedules, and budgets in an efficient, productive manner. Able to determine and focus on key priorities.
• Aggressiveness. Moves quickly and takes a forceful stand without being overly abrasive.
• Follow-through on commitments. Lives up to verbal and written agreements, regardless of personal cost.
• Intelligence. Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information.
• Analytical skills. Able to structure and process information and draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits an inquisitive mind and achieves useful insights.
• Attention to detail. Does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
• Persistence. Demonstrates tenacity and willingness to go the distance to get something done.
• Proactivity. Acts without being told what to do. Brings new ideas to the company.
• Ability to hire A Players. Sources, selects, and sells A Players to join the company. An A player is defined as someone who is able to successfully accomplish at least 90% of requirements for a role.
• Ability to develop people. Coaches people in their current roles to improve performance, and prepares them for future roles.
• Flexibility/adaptability. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
• Calm under pressure. Maintains stable performance when under heavy pressure or stress.
• Strategic thinking/visioning. Able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way. Determines opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends.
• Creativity/innovation. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems.
• Enthusiasm. Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude.
• Work ethic. Possesses a strong willingness to work hard and sometimes long hours to get the job done. Has a track record of working hard.
• High standards. Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Listening skills. Lets others speak and seeks to understand their viewpoints.
• Openness to criticism and ideas. Often solicits feedback and reacts calmly to criticism or negative feedback.
• Communication. Speaks and writes clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative. Maintains this standard in all forms of written communication, including e-mail.
• Teamwork. Reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.
• Persuasion. Able to convince others to pursue a course of action.

Details

1. We’re looking for candidates who can design and render on their own, and also have directed design teams in the past. Please show examples of both. If you can't render, it's still ok though...we will consider you for the role.
2. Position fully remote, full time, some travel may be required.
3. Ideal candidate location will be in North America or Europe.
4. Mastery of English a must
5. All hardware equipment (laptop, webcam, etc.) is the responsibility of candidate.