Sunday, October 7, 2007

Creative Director at DivX

Creative Director
Location: USA, San Diego
Description
Hi. We're DivX, and we're looking for a creative director to help us create a brand identity worthy of the innovative and diverse technology products we make. We've gotten a good start with our DivX brand, but it's time to take it up a notch. (Bam.) We need someone bold, curious and creative, with experience using design to build consumer brands that people are so passionate about that the brand needs to turn up its collar to hide the hickeys when it goes home to mom and dad.

You should have experience building and managing teams of designers, creating company cultures that support and value design, and most important, setting clear creative direction that helps build strong brand identities. What we do cuts across media—from the web to the desktop to the home theater to mobile. We need someone who can design for perspectives from 2-foot to 10-foot, from the visceral to the spiritual and everything in between.

The Everyday View
You will be responsible for all design at DivX on a global basis. This includes managing all design work on a day-to-day basis, and championing and evangelizing good design high and low throughout the organization. We need you to figure out how to express our complex brand essence in a simple and powerful brand identity that works well around the world and across mediums. You will lead our internal design team (based in San Diego, California) and manage external designers and firms when necessary to achieve our goals.
  • Define a creative vision and set the creative direction for all of DivX for a strong and consistent brand identity on a global basis, including redesigning or refreshing brand identities where necessary
  • Lead, build and grow our in-house design team
  • Direct projects in several design disciplines, including print design, typography, illustration, web design, graphic design, motion design, product design and user experience design
  • Champion a clear and consistent brand identity design and use the design team to manifest it in all external and internal communications
  • Define a creative process that allows the design team to support the operational needs of our diverse and growing business
  • Manage the creative process to deliver design projects on time and under budget
  • Source and manage relationships with outside firms and freelancers to complete design projects when necessary
The Kind of Person We're Looking For
If you know your Bierut from your Rand, your Cooper from your Kalman and your Bauhaus from your Post-Modern, give us a shout (metaphorically, via email). Strongly held opinions on Helvetica are a must.

The person who will make our toes tingle will have:
  • 5-10 years of experience as a working art director and/or creative director, with a portfolio to show for it (if possible, please provide a link to your online portfolio with your submission)
  • Significant experience managing and leading creative teams to do great work (ditto on the online portfolio per the above)
  • A strong fundamental understanding of graphic design, web design, print design, interactive design and motion design
  • A passion for great consumer brands and an understanding of how design can be used to create them
  • Experience designing for multiple media with a recognition of their similarities and differences
  • A history of creating an environment and culture that celebrates and promotes good design
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