Do you approach creative work with an organizational mindset?

Groupon’s mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfill our purpose of building strong communities through thriving small businesses by connecting people to a vibrant, global marketplace for local services, experiences and goods. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

The Digital Content Marketing team is a large group of in-house creatives and creative ops professionals who support all the branded creative marketing and merchandising needs for Groupon globally. We work to create a brand people get excited about, for both customers and our clients across the company, through visual design, content marketing, and photos and videos from our in-house studio.

The Creative Director leads and drives creative direction of marketing/merchandising design for Groupon’s online brand experience. The Creative Director drives strategic creative innovation, collaborating cross-functionally with global and local internal teams dedicated to branded creative, digital and content marketing, merchandising, and social media, among others. This role reports to the Head of Global Digital Content.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work?

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Manage creative strategic initiatives from visual conceptualization to completion, and translate merchandising and marketing objectives into visual strategies and processes

• Be a master and champion of the Groupon brand, and drive creative production to brand guidelines, merchandising guidelines, and strategy

• Drive visual innovation, brainstorming, and conceptualization to develop and produce innovative, thought-provoking campaigns that align to business goals & objectives

• Review work, troubleshoot, and provide feedback and coaching to creative teams

• Identify and implement processes and solutions to drive creative operational scale and improved quality in line with brand and business requirements

• Remain actively involved in hiring, training, and cultivating career development of creative teams

• Determine production requirements and schedule in partnership with account manager and cross-functional teams by reviewing client requirements; outlining basic presentation concepts; and coordinating creative activities

• Meet with clients and/or upper management to explain campaign strategies and solutions

• Partner with leadership to lead annual operations planning and oversee subsequent management of the budget and operations

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 10+ years agency or creative services experience

• 7+ years leadership experience in agency or creative services, preferably as a creative director, art director, or similar role

• 5+ years experience directly managing and leading a team

• Bachelor’s degree in design, marketing, or other related field

• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite; working knowledge of Sketch and InVision beneficial

• Proficient in Google Suite and Microsoft Excel

• Extremely comfortable working on Mac computers

• Outstanding leadership and management skills

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills, able to resolve complex issues in creative ways

• Inspiring, values innovative thinking and is in-tune with emerging visual trends and how to implement them to solve for business needs

• Able to provide clear creative direction and articulate vision to all levels within organization

• Strong interpersonal skills, exhibits diplomacy and decisiveness

• Excellent communication skills

• Flexible and able to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment with shifting objectives

For your application:

When applying, please provide a link to your portfolio

Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.