Creative Director - Santa Clara, CA - Hybrid

Description

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure, and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.

The Gigamon creative director guides all brand creative projects and deliverables. This person is responsible for the overall brand and the quality of work produced by the corporate marketing team. The creative director sets and communicates our brand standards and focuses on developing and building the company’s image and reputation through creative vision and delivery.

What you’ll do:

• Proactively evolve Gigamon’s global brand as a strategic visionary
• Consistently evolve a brand in a way that tightly aligns to changing business and marketing requirements.
• Manage the creative process from concept to completion.
• Translate marketing objectives into clear creative strategies and deliverables.
• Manage a creative staff of internal designers and/or external design agencies in the development and production of all marketing assets, from collateral to the web, events, and advertising
• Develop and manage the company’s brand and creative guidelines and standards and ensure that they are consistently met across the company’s internal and external communications channels
• Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to creative teams
• Remain actively involved in hiring, training, and managing creative staff and agencies

What you’ve done:

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in creative design preferably in B2B technology, with at least 4 years serving as a creative lead
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and Experience Manager tools and workflows
• Proven track record designing and leading teams that deliver award-winning work
• Experience performing and/or managing range of creative roles, including graphic design, art direction, presentation design, and copywriting
• Expert knowledge of the business side of design
• Proven skill in developing and delivering well-designed web sites and online marketing campaigns
• International experience working with global teams

Who you are:

• You take initiative in serving as the company’s brand ambassador, assuring the brand aligns to the future direction of the organization
• You are a mediator, a multitasker, and a motivator who gets creative team members to work together efficiently and consistently produce quality deliverables, meet deadlines and get results
• You know the ins and outs of marketing and creative workflows and have significant expertise in developing high impact work
• Strong understanding of industry trends and technology
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and project management skills
• Ability to inspire creativity and work well with diverse personalities
• Deep understanding of online marketing and user-centered design

*Applicants for this role are encouraged to provide a link to their portfolio or sample work.

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role is expected to be between $168,000 - $210,000 (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard employee benefit programs, which may include health and other insurances such as life and disability, and savings accounts such as a retirement plan with company matching contributions or similar, paid time off (holidays, vacation, and sick), tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program (EAP), business travel accident insurance, employee discounts, and employee referral program. Additionally, employees may be eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at (669) 240-2248.

If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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