ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be part of the team that’s re-envisioning the Pangea brand, working closely with your partners across brand, lifecycle, and demand generation marketing in addition to brand and digital agencies. This means you’ll play a key role in defining what the world thinks about Pangea. You will do this by helping lay the strategic foundation of the Pangea brand and build a design system for our multicultural customers.

The ideal candidate will be passionately customer-centric and have a deep portfolio that demonstrates design excellence in bringing brands, products, and services to life. This role is for a highly capable creative leader and team manager who can direct internal and external creative resources, and has the composure and communication talent to effectively engage with senior executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, inspire and build a team of designers, copy, and agency partners to create best-in-class campaigns for the multi-channel multicultural marketing efforts.  

• Own creative strategy for multicultural campaigns, including the desktop homepage, product pages, mobile, email and applications

• No job is too small, this is a hands-on job especially for the first several months.

• Must have strong acumen for writing and developing a voice through words.

• Build and manage a creative team in Mexico City from our headquarters in Chicago.

• Must have strong project management skills.

• Manage the timely execution of all creative priorities with your team and stakeholders.

• Effectively develop relationships with product, brand, and marketing teams to develop strategy that drives compelling creative executions.

• Bring our brands, products, services to life and help raise the bar on customer engagement for our programs across demand generation (digital advertising), lifecycle marketing (CRM), brand awareness (tv/radio/OOH), social influencer programs, and our blog.

• Lead development of innovative online and offline creative assets, from concept to delivery.

• Evangelize brand style and tone, and develop usage guidelines and templates that support the business.

• Quickly develop concept mockups to visualize new ideas in context.

• Present campaign concepts effectively to senior executives.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong copywriting skills

• An online portfolio of your work is required. Please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when you apply .

• Understand the nuances of multicultural marketing and be able to design systems that can translate into multiple ethnic markets.

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience driving strategy and execution.

• Demonstrated creative leadership

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, English, Communications, Fine Arts, Design or similar or equivalent professional experience.

• A demonstrated portfolio of breakthrough creative ideas, creating original advertising and creative marketing concepts.

• Experience with a high-volume advertising design studio, ad agency or internal corporate agency.

• Ability to speak a second language and have familiarity with one of the many cultural markets we serve. Spanish is particularly useful.

• Experience building creative teams, finding the best talent, nurturing that talent, and knowing how to use both internal and external resources effectively.

• Ability to lead multiple, simultaneous creative development efforts effectively in a fast-paced, metric driven environment.

• Must move fast and have a bias towards action. Understand the concept of working in an agile environment and comfortable with the idea of iterating.

• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to effectively multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience in a startup environment a plus.

• Experience in fintech or tech industries are a big plus.

• Unwavering attention to detail with an acute awareness that every design detail in creative execution counts.

• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on creative projects, and history of establishing effective creative development processes.

• Demonstrated business acumen, including experience of budgeting and resourcing.

• Self-motivated team player, with refined and assertive leadership skills.

• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business and user interaction priorities.

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Keynote, and Microsoft Office.