Senior Creative Lead

4 weeks ago

New York, New York, United States SquintOpera Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a seasoned, multidisciplinary creative with a passion for shaping big ideas and a flair for narrative-driven storytelling and cutting-edge design. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with the Creative Director and Producers to interpret and translate briefs into creative visions and contribute to delivering high-impact experiences across digital and physical formats for exhibition projects in the cultural and brand sectors.

Main Responsibilities
  • Creative Visionary: Collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Producers, and cross-disciplinary teams to transform ideas into high-quality, deliverable content that tells a story, creates an experience, and leaves an impression.
  • Art Direction: Provide hands-on art direction to junior creatives and contractors for various projects, including film (live action, CG, VFX, animation), interactive media, and experiential design.
  • Brief Interpretation: Attend client meetings, interpret briefs, and build strong narratives and achievable creative visions for a wide range of deliverables, including creative treatments, storyboards, spatial design, script writing, creating brief decks, and style frames.
  • Visual Direction: Lead visual direction from conception through execution, ensuring the creative vision aligns with client objectives and our studio's high standards.
  • Project Management: Work with Producers to manage timelines and project reviews.
  • Presentation Materials: Create presentation materials for existing projects and new business.
Character Traits
  • Autonomy: You are autonomous, self-directed, and proactive - you always know when and how you need to put your creative prowess to use.
  • Teamwork: You also enjoy working as part of a team and can give and receive feedback openly.
  • Adaptability: You're comfortable working in uncharted territories - be it unfamiliar content, new technologies, or complex briefs.
  • Continuous Learning: You're passionate about staying ahead of the curve and evolving your creative approach.
  • Effective Communication: You ask the right questions.
  • Flexibility: You have a flexible 'can-do' attitude and adapt well to changing priorities.
  • Positive Impact: Ability to have a positive impact on others and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.
  • Technical Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of technical and creative aspects of the work and ability to reconcile these.
  • Time Management: Ability to manage time effectively.
  • Problem-Solving: Confident and decisive, a problem-solver.
  • Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail, high-quality standards.
  • Creative Innovation: Help to foster an atmosphere in which creative innovation can take place.
Qualification/Experience
  • Design Experience: 5+ years of demonstrable design experience with an innovative, creative agency or production environment.
  • Design Excellence: A sharp eye for design excellence and details.
  • Design Versatility: Ability to design in a wide range of styles and platforms.
  • Narrative-Driven Design: You're a natural storyteller - you approach visual design through the lens of the narrative.
  • Leadership: You've previously led creative visions.
  • Brief Development: You can take a brief and run with it, bringing the vision to life through compelling art direction and hands-on design work.
  • Creative Background: Candidates may have any combination of creative backgrounds, including film, motion design, exhibition design, spatial design, branding, or immersive content.
  • Technical Skills: Experience with Google Suite and strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite - shortcuts and efficient workflow a must.
Desirable Skills
  • Museum/Exhibition Design: Experience in museum/exhibition design.
  • Figma: Experience with Figma.
  • Cinema 4d: Experience with Cinema 4d.
  • Unity/Digital Pipeline: Basic understanding of Unity/digital pipeline.
Outcomes
  • Immersive Excellence: Your creative vision will define how visitors engage with and experience exhibitions, ensuring every project is memorable and emotionally resonant.
  • Collaborative Success: Working closely with production teams, you will ensure all visual elements of an exhibition come together smoothly and that tell stories that resonate.
  • Creative Innovation: You'll continually push the boundaries of exhibition design, integrating new techniques and technologies to create more immersive, interactive experiences.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates. Please submit your resume and portfolio with your application. Unfortunately, applications without portfolios will not be considered.

Salary Pay Range: $85,000-$100,000 USD

Hours: This is a full-time position. Our working hours are 9:30am - 6:00pm [Monday through Friday, with one hour for lunch]. We currently have a hybrid approach to working with a mixture of in-house and remote days.

Benefits
  • Unlimited Holiday
  • Medicash Health Scheme
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Weekly Masterclasses
  • Cyclescheme
  • Medical Insurance
  • Secondments between our London and New York studios
  • Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Access to FSA, HSA, and pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Training and Development Opportunities

This is just a snapshot of some of the perks you can expect at Squint.

About Squint/Opera

Squint/Opera is a leading creative studio which bridges the worlds of architecture, design, media, and technology to create compelling, narrative-driven experiences. As experts in blending digital media with physical reality, we help our clients craft digital content to immerse their audiences and communicate big ideas.

Squint was founded in London in 2001, by four young friends who wanted to help visionary thinkers and institutions make the radical a reality. For more than 20 years, we have delivered projects in every corner of the globe and for a wide range of clients across architecture, government, real estate, museums, and attractions.

Squint/Opera is now part of Journey, a leading innovation and design agency who specialise in crafting compelling experiences across the physical and digital realms. Together, Squint/Opera and Journey create the first agency with proven expertise blending the physical and virtual worlds at a global scale.

Our Values

  • Embrace Change
  • Seek Invention
  • Increase Our Knowledge
  • Say It Simply
  • Ego-Free

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