Become an Associate Creative Manager at a fast-growing FinTech company, a highly energized playground where brilliant minds come together to help local restaurants grow, while partnering with some of the biggest loyalty programs in the world. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling as we strive to transform the marketing landscape. As an Associate Creative Manager, you are a project owner, team leader, and a master of digital craft. You push teams and their projects to new heights. You are a risk taker and creative innovator. You can spot issues before they turn into problems and work collaboratively with stakeholders and personnel at all levels.

You should be able to shift gears between long-term projects, short-term requests, and last-minute challenges. You should be confident in pitching your ideas, whether they are practical or absolutely off-the-wall. Our company organization is pretty flat, so you should be comfortable working with everyone from designers to developers and market researchers to our CEO. If you strive to be the central leader of an interdisciplinary creative team while surrounding yourself with people that share the same passion for design, UX, and exploration, please keep reading!

What you’ll do with us:

The Associate Creative Manager is growing into a leadership role—and will act as a player coach, balancing individual creative goals and team oversight. You’ll pivot between B2B, B2C, and internal communications at a fluid pace. The net result will be masterful brand and design execution across every marketing touchpoint and work that resonates with exactly the right people.

That said, here are a few things you will be expected to consistently deliver:

• Support the Senior Creative/UX Manager to drive the customer/partner/brand relationship, manage multi-discipline marketing deliverables, and assist with P&L responsibility.
• Direct and mentor a creative team of designers and copywriters to consistently deliver on-brand strategy and messaging
• Working closely with Business owners, help manage and update creative/project briefs, create deliverables lists for projects as well as help prioritize and manage team resources by assigning projects based on individuals' workload and expertise
• Protect the integrity of the brands we champion through consistent design decisions and strong collaboration with other departments and their leadership
• Manage the process of moving marketing projects along, from kick-off to going live according to the project brief and timelines, while working closely with business owners and marketing specialists to help establish, maintain, and adjust project timelines
• Act as a gatekeeper, ensuring all necessary information is provided to begin work on a deliverable
• Utilize established resources, tools, processes, and techniques while identifying new options that the team would benefit from
• Identify potential workflow efficiencies within the team and across departments
• Drive strategic brainstorming sessions and direct creative execution that creates best-in-class UX/creative and exceeds the project’s objectives
• Help sell the team’s ideas in creative presentations
• Maintain a flexible work schedule, as weekend and extended workdays are sometimes necessary
• Collaborate with your team members—marketing managers, copywriters, designers, and developers—as well as multiple departments ranging from sales to legal, to consistently deliver polished, award-worthy work 
• Lead by example—get into the trenches with the creative team

Who you are:

• 6+ years of professional experience in a design or creative field, preferably in an agency setting
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Solid knowledge of marketing, brand, and design principles and development
• A portfolio that demonstrates the above
• Ability to scale ideas up or down according to available resources and time to market
• Strong concept and strategy development skills
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Strong and quick creative mind
• Ability to shift perspective between big picture and granular details
• Out-of-the-box resourcefulness
• Ability to design and execute across a variety of channels, including, but not limited to web, email, direct mail, blogs, e-books, and social media
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the digital marketing industry; restaurant industry experience is a plus
• Ability to generate and develop creative marketing ideas
• A masterful ability to follow brand specs and guidelines
• Organizational skills and the ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities for multiple stakeholders and business partners
• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite and Office Suite
• Passion to learn new skills and platforms

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We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers thanks to our ability to leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, while simultaneously providing value to our strategic partners' overall loyalty programs.

We work alongside our restaurant partners every day, sharing in the ebbs and flows of their business while helping them achieve their dreams. We provide marketing and financing that work with their business and are truly pay-for-performance. We help them increase revenue, traffic, and customer engagement. Importantly, our services do not require the merchant to discount or give away their products.

Even more, we enhance our partners' loyalty programs by offering a turn-key, scalable dining rewards program that is right for their business model and leverages their unique brand to help increase the value proposition for their customers.

Finally, we connect our millions of members to our participating restaurants, allowing them to earn the rewards they desire when dining out.

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.