Dir Creative-Cacique - Full-time / Part-time

Brand Overview:ascena retail group, inc. is a leading national specialty retailer offering apparel, shoes, and accessories for women under the Premium Fashion segment (Ann Taylor, LOFT, and Lou & Grey), Value Fashion segment (maurices and dressbarn), Plus Fashion segment (Lane Bryant and Catherines), and for tween girls under the Kids Fashion segment (Justice). ascena retail group, inc. operates ecommerce websites and approximately 4,800 stores throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a Dir Creative-Cacique to join our team located at our Corporate-LaneBryant-Columbus, OH 43219.

Position Overview:

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

About the Role:

You are responsible for how the brand's mission and values translate to design, overseeing the brand expression across all touchpoints and channels.

What Makes you a great Candidate?

• You have commitment and passion about the mission to be a catalyst for women to feel, see, and claim their power and realize their infinite potential. You are a magic maker who sees possibility and turns dreams into reality.

What you'll do:

• Mentor and influence a large team of Art Directors, and Designers working across Content, and Shoots; directly managing the Content development
• Partner with internal Agency to execute to the crafted vision.
• Partner with VP of Creative and Merch team on the overall vision for the visual expression of the brand organizationally and strategically - including a deepened understanding brand health and articulation, external communication, brand architecture and evolution
• Innovate on tools and formats for brand education across the company, developing bespoke yet repeatable workshops for teams as needed
• Push the brand and how it's experienced into new places - innovating on the types of products and experiences
• Oversight on multi-faceted and multimedia projects, with the brand and mission in mind
• Serve as a brand ambassador for the brand, working with key leaders on both teams to ensure the creative vision of the company is translating over and is mutually beneficial
• Amplify our place in the industry as a first-class creative workplace
• Similarly, scout and attract key talent for staff, freelance and project-based collaboration opportunities
• Manage and oversee a budget in conjunction with tracking allocated resources and metrics to leverage business goals
• Provide onboarding, mentorship, continual education for latest brand evolution, process, and performance to design team as well as other departments
• Manage the quality and ensure consistent, strong design output across platforms
• Identify key collaborators and contributors across mediums
• All while fostering a thriving, inspirational, and immensely creative work environment for the team

What you have:

• 10+ years of experience in design, branding and photography
• Bachelor's Degree in graphic design, branding & visual communication, architecture, industrial design, or digital media, plus significant experience demonstrating creative sophistication in concepts and design
• Deep creative leadership and design management experience, ideally within large organizations, developing people and their careers on teams of 10+
• Proven care and attention to the craft including the ability to demonstrate, through portfolio and conversation, a well-developed understanding of good design fundamentals like color, type, hierarchy,
• Experience creating a culture of constructive critique and deploying effective design methodologies like creative concepts, user-centric design thinking, and prototyping
• Understanding of and ideally direct experience with iterative product design, development, and continuous deployment
• Strong desire to develop creatively and push the visual brand forward
• Deep knowledge of and familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud Products (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Etc.) (Keynote and Powerpoint familiarity is a plus).

To be successful here you are:

• A skilled leader, passionate about growing and nurturing talent
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high volume environment
• A problem-solver who sets an example of positive change
• Inspired to push boundaries and take work to its highest potential
• Able to collaborate across different departments and workflows, building relationships
• Someone who inspires, educates, and empowers others
• Imaginative, you see possibility

Location:Corporate-LaneBryant-Columbus, OH 43219Position Type:Regular/Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.