Associate Creative Director - Digital

This is a Full Time Job

WWE consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. Our company is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE’s programming is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches more that 600 million homes worldwide.

This role will be a high level “hands on” creative position, supporting all web-based projects. The ideal candidate must have solid design skills in order to generate and maintain high level on-brand creative work from concept through completion.

The Associate Creative Director will be responsible for mentoring and creative oversight of a team of Interactive Designers, in addition to collaborating with the Creative Director, IA/UX and Front-End Development Team to ensure quality of work. In addition, this role will be responsible for meeting with key internal stakeholders and vendors to assist with the creative specification process.

Responsibilities:


* Act as Creative oversight, supervisor, and mentor for the Interactive Design team
* Work with internal stakeholders on project intake and creative vision
* Lead creative brainstorming sessions
* Take the lead role in creating powerful visual solutions and producing final assets including; UI, full page layouts, micro-sites, banners, games, and logos
* Turn concepts, wireframes, and technical documents into visually compelling and meaningful designs
* Follow design trends, patterns, and cutting edge innovative web technologies, and research and recommend best practices
* Juggle multiple projects and manage deadlines
* Keep current with WWE programs, characters, storylines, products, and overall pop-culture trends

Qualifications:


* 7+ years of UI and design experience in web/interactive media production, including at least three years managing and coaching a team
* Experience working as a Lead Designer through a full product development life cycle, acting as creative point person for clients and/or internal stakeholders
* Experience launching large-scale websites
* Able to translate traditional ad campaign messages into all digital mediums/platforms including web, video, and mobile
* High level Adobe CS5 suite skills and good understanding of HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, and HTML5 as they relate to design
* Solid portfolio of web design (cross platform preferred) that demonstrates superior sense of layout, usability, information architecture, and typography
* Excellent eye for design (You know great UI when you see it, and can explain why it's great.)
* Strong organizational, problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
* Able to function well in a dynamic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment while still paying close attention to detail
* Bachelor degree in a related field of study with formal training in typography, graphic art, and digital design
* Resume/application must include a link to your on-line portfolio/website to demonstrate your Design talent and skill set