Creative Team Lead

Responsibilities

iSoftBet is looking for a motion designer to use visual effects, animations and other techniques to create artwork for media such as website, social media or outdoor wide video formats. Working closely with the marketing team, this video producer will brainstorm and create high quality video content that reflect the new branding and creative expression. S/he will be responsible for the end-to-end creation of video content – including storyboarding, selecting audio, video, colors, animation

• Responsible for conceptualization and implementation of design of solutions that meet marketing strategies from concept to completion
• Lead the implementation of the company branding & creative expression
• Manage the brand guidelines and brand positioning - Ensure our brand guidelines are implemented correctly internally and externally, and suggest new ways to enhance the visual identity of all our brands
• Be an expert on design trends worldwide, especially with regards to social publishing, and make recommendations to the business as a result. 
• Manage the lifecycle of all assets and marketing touchpoints internally / externally (rebranding, refreshers and updates)
• Think globally - but act locally - ensure that all artwork / marketing assets are in line with advertising regulations and local specifications (no use of white in China for example)
• Manage a team that creates a wide range of different marketing materials (for both online and offline use) - social templates, assets for major marketing campaigns (owned / paid channels), pitch decks and commercial assets for our client campaigns - and contribute to the workload as and when needed
• Familiar with all design sizes / format and technical requirements
• Prioritize all activities smoothly to cater for multiple stakeholders needs (commercial, GTM, HR and PMM teams) 
• Manage external resources as required 
• Managing relationships with creative agencies from brief to completion including budget and timeline management
• Manage your own time and advise on time required for jobs. Ensure all work is delivered on time and stakeholders are kept up to date
• Line management responsibilities - Lead a team of designers and copywriter
• Efficient management of time and resources - ability to assess the workload necessary for a given task and project estimates etc.

Requirements

• Creative experience in branding, digital and motion design
• Degree in graphic design and three to five years’ experience in lead designer roles or previous Motion Graphics Designer experience.
• Excellent skills in communication, both verbal and in written, and used to communicating within an international business
• A desire to implement new, creative ideas to help improve the business 

Tech requirements 

• Specialized knowledge of methods and techniques necessary to create graphic designs and layouts
• Should demonstrate a high level of proficiency in design, web and multimedia software and applications, such as Adobe Creative Suite. It is beneficial if they have knowledge of printing procedures, photography, illustration.
• An expert in Adobe Creative Cloud such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• You possess strong knowledge of Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro or similar tools