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Cramer Executive Creative Director in Norwood, Massachusetts
About Cramer:
Cramer is a brand experience and content marketing agency with a talented and diverse team. Over the past forty years, we’ve built a culture and studio delivery model that has made us a trusted partner for global brands in technology, healthcare and financial services.
Our work creates moments and memories that drive teams, cultures and customers. We create events, brand cathedrals, immersive experiences and marketing campaigns that move audiences to take action.
Started over 40 years of go by a US Olympian, Cramer is an agency with a heart and passion for excellence. We are proud to have been recognized as one of The Boston Globe's Top Places to Work. We work in a welcoming and highly collaborative environment.
About You:
Do you have the passion to redefine experiential and live event marketing? Are you a creative visionary who thrives at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and technology? Cramer is looking for an Executive Creative Director to lead high-impact brand experiences that captivate audiences and drive measurable results. Sound like you? Keep reading.
You will work with our creative, strategy, healthcare, account, technical and production teams to drive the creation of immersive experiences and multi-channel marketing campaigns. Your job is to captivate audiences and drive measurable business results.
Your focus will be on events and experiential clients, but we seek a creative talent to push big ideas into other channels. Ideal candidates will have a portfolio that show us both!
Look through the work section of Cramer.com to see some examples of the programs we create. https://www.cramer.com
What We Need:
Strategic Creative Leadership
Empower and lead a creative culture that fosters innovative thinking, supports professional growth, and helps us deliver excellence to our clients’ most important programs. As a leader, it’s also a role of building the team of the next generation creative leaders through mentorship and hands-on leadership.
Lead Our Company-Wide Culture of Curiosity
By staying ahead of industry trends in technology, events, theater and culture. Integrating emerging technologies like generative AI, digital production studios, volume studios and continuously adapting to the evolving high-end real time theater landscape. And then create a culture of inclusivity around these technologies in order to involve the entire company.
Front Line Client Collaboration
Work closely with account directors and executive producers to ensure creative visions align with brand goals, business objectives, and event logistics. You have great ideas and a way with people. You will be a cheerleader and a champion for big ideas in ways that involve and encourage guidance and contribution from our client partners.
Passionate Ambassador for Innovation & Trendsetting in Marketing
Welcome to an agency that truly lives at the intersection of ideas and execution. If you can dream it, we can do it. Hands-on tech and execution is one of our superpowers. We need you to stay ahead of industry trends, leveraging new technologies and storytelling techniques to create memorable experiences. Come in with a few of your favorite brands and why you love what they used to do, what they’re doing now and how they evolved.
Client and Business Development Support
You love the hunt, you love the blue-sky opportunities to showcase the team’s ideas, and you love to collaborate with clients, account and new-business teams. You will be a key player in supporting business development through concepting and pitching creative solutions that exceed expectations and achieve beautiful and measurable results.
Team Management
Lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse and talented creative team. , A good listener, teacher and player/coach -- it takes all kinds of tools to keep this talented creative team organized, challenged and moving forward in ways that drive client outcomes and satisfies their need to do great work.
Executive Leader
You’ll collaborate across the company to build relationships, strategies and programs that nurture our people, clients, the work we produce, and our financial results.
Quality Assurance
You’ll build on our culture of excellence in our work and customer experience. Success is never final, and we need to continue to push the boundaries in our journey.
Requirements
• 10-15 years experience in creative leadership within the events, experiential marketing or advertising industry.
• Exceptional ability to lead, influence, and work across organizational boundaries with a consistent history of cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven ability to lead by example and consistently inspire creative colleagues to create differentiating, pioneering ideas that conceptualize world-class solutions.
• Strong presenter with an ability to sell creative thinking and ideas across the agency and with senior-level client executives.
• Diverse portfolio showcasing innovative event concepts, integrated marketing solutions and original content development
• Excellent leadership, communication, and client relationship management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to tell stories, sell big ideas and bond with clients and prospects on a human level
Benefits
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Health Savings Account, including employer contribution
Retirement Plan (401K) with company match
Profit Share Bonus Plan
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Family Leave
Short Term & Long-Term Disability
Tuition Reimbursement
Wellness Resources, including discounted membership to Lifetime Fitness
Generous onsite café
Paid holidays