Job Detail

Job Title: Account Manager
Posted: 06.30.2010

Company: Paladin
Contact Name: Lissy Pineda
Contact Email: lissy@paladinstaff.com

Company Description:
Paladin is searching for a stellar Creative Director with Interactive and Print experience for one of our clients. This position is for someone who has had a successful career in print and ventured into the interactive space as our client is focusing more in this area for the future...

Job Summary:
Title- Creative Director Interactive & Print Location- Chicago (north suburbs – you will need a car) DIRECT HIRE Salary- up to $85K/yearly Benefits: plans include profit-sharing, 401K, Medical, Dental (company supported health insurance), Life insurance options, employee assistance program, paid holidays and vacations. You must live in the Chicago land area. NO RELOCATION My client is looking for an experienced Creative Director who has a strong interactive portfolio as well as a successful print background to join their team. This person must have strong presentation skills and have managed a team of designers as well as work with various departments to get the job done. There is an in-house creative team as well as a web development team you would be interacting and working with. You will work closely with the VP of Marketing to help solve any problems he faces creatively. You must be able to think outside the box when it comes to print as it relates to catalog. Can you make a retail catalog with heavy product images and text look inviting and clean? Are your website designs among the best that are out there?

Responsibilities:
Requirements: • Must have a solid print background. • Must have experience managing a creative team • Catalog design and layout experience for catalogs ranging from 200-500 pages that are product & text heavy. Not boring layout but clever and clean use of space to show products. • Interactive experience is required. Must have website design experience. • Must be technically savvy and understand the web to communicate with a team of developers. • Must be able to present to a room full of executives and command attention. • Must be able to provide clear objectives and talk strategy behind designs.

Qualifications:
Again, to be successful with this client you will be ambitious, a quick problem solver, able to multi-task and work fast. You will have had some experience designing for the web and understand how to communicate and work with a developer to clearly describe the creative direction you are looking to accomplish. You will be a team player and want to mentor designers you are managing. You will be a key player in the direction this client is taking in print and web. You need to know how to communicate clearly and have a strategy behind your work. This client will ask to have a criminal background check and drug screen done prior to sending an offer to the selected candidate.

Additional Information:
To Apply: please send all requested documents to lissy@paladinstaff.com 1. Send a targeted résumé 2. In the body of your email write 2-3 paragraphs as to your print and web experience. How many years in each and clients/brands you have worked with. Please list only programs you are proficient in. 3. Send a link to view your work. 4. Send 3 recent references as this is a direct hire opportunity. References will be called if you are to be presented to the client. I will be reaching out to qualified candidates only. Applications that do not provide all of the above will not be reviewed. No phone calls please.