Associate Creative Director, Information Design

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Associate Creative Director Information Design

*To be considered you MUST HAVE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS examples in your portfolio***

About the Role

Join Merkles Information Design team as anAssociate Creative Director (ACD) Visual Design. Reporting to the Group Creative Director help craft high-impact presentations for some of the worlds most recognized brands. This is a high-visibility role where your design expertise will influence major business decisions and elevate how Merkle presents itself to clients.

What Youll Do

• Own the design of high-stakes pitch materials and executive-level presentations that drive strategic decisions and win new business.
• Collaborate with Sales Strategy Creative Data Solutions and Analytics teams to transform complex content into clear organized and visually compelling materials.
• Organize and design content-heavy decks with diagrams charts and tables while creating image-driven TedTalk slides to introduce or summarize the topic to a client.
• Apply Merkles branded capabilities while incorporating client branding to showcase partnership potential.
• Own projects end-to-end: set milestones communicate progress and ensure timely delivery under tight deadlines.
• Mentor and review other designers work helping expand best practices and elevate design standards.
• Contribute to building a team of elite-level designers and over time potential to take on people leadership responsibilities including guiding direct reports.

What Were Looking For

Responsibilities:

• Develop RFP / pitch decks product and thought leadership materials that elevate the brand and help us stand out from our competitors.
• Able to distill content and use best design practices to translate into purposeful presentations.
• Demonstrates exceptional creative conceptualization design typography and layout skills
• Confidently lead meetings with subject matter experts to ask strategic questions that inform your design recommendations.
• Be an advocate of brand guidelines. Maintain and evolve our brands graphic aesthetic and quality.
• We are working with a variety of the worlds largest brands be able to pivot to design in our clients brand aesthetics.
• Follow creative direction from the group leader then provide creative direction to other team members if needed.
• Seek and apply the latest presentation design thinking; work collaboratively within a group dynamic; and participate in any given project or team to which assign.
  

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of experience required
• Expert-level skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Understanding of design applications in traditional and latest channels
• Strong typography layout and visual storytelling skills.
• Familiarity with publication-style design with heavy content per slide/page.
• Experience with graphics charts infographics animations transitions video storyboarding and more.
• Strong image making and typography skills is a must. Our work is similar to publication design but produced in PowerPoint.
• Ability to confidently lead meetings and present to internal executives and stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing projects ability to adapt to changing priorities deadlines and directions
• A portfolio with examples of PowerPoint presentations is required

Nice-to-Have:

• Leadership experience with direct reports or mentoring designers.
• Portfolio includes data visualization and/or QBR or EBR projects

Why Merkle

Youll work on presentations that influence top global brands and reach CMO CTO and CEO desks. The variety of clients is unmatched and the impact of your work will be seen at the highest levels. This is an opportunity to grow your career in a collaborative fast-paced environment while shaping the future of our Information Design discipline.

Additional Information

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $94000 - $152375. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience knowledge skills and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

Medical vision and dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

At least 15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave and

Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits please visit .

At dentsu we believe great work happens when were connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices currently located in Chicago metro Detroit Los Angeles and New York City are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients which may include attendance in an office.

To begin the application process please click on the Apply button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. #LI-RB1 #LI-Hybrid

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