Creative Director - Avanade X - North America

Introduction

What is Avanade X?

Avanade X is a digital design and marketing agency specializing in creating exceptional digital experiences for consumers and employees alike.

Over Avanade's 20+ years, we've delivered the most intelligent, engaging, industry leading, award-winning experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. As technology and human expectations evolve, we see incredible opportunities for customers, products, and workplaces-where imagination is the only limit.

Come Join Us

Avanade X is our way to bring unconventional thinking, exceptional creativity, and our unparalleled engineering heritage to think big and make it real. Our vision of the future goes far beyond concepts to enable and deliver the impact our clients, their people, customers, and communities need.

We support each other with great work to push boundaries, connect technology with what matters to people first, and grow with our clients. If you feel this is a great fit for your path, we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Sell big, creative world-changing ideas, both internally and to clients?

• Use consumer behavior and human-centered design to drive creativity?

• Build trust and brand equity with clients, partners and internal teams?

• Understand clients' brands and how to solve their business problems?

• Provide creative leadership on the strategic accounts to ensure creative quality is of the highest bar?

• Design creative team structure, processes, working models in alignment with Avanade X

• Drive growth and development plans for the creative team?

• Align our creative practice capabilities to our Microsoft, Sitecore and Adobe implementations

Skills & Experience

• Proven design experience and a strong portfolio that demonstrates expertise in design principles and solutions

• Expertise in customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) disciplines such as information architecture, research, usability and content strategy

• Experience providing inspirational and motivational leadership to people and teams

• Experience in a technical consultancy/digital agency is an asset, although not required

About You

Characteristics that demonstrate success for this role

• Ability to quickly develop rapport and earn the trust of key stakeholders such as sellers, partners and clients generating business results

• Ability to coach, mentor, motivate, grow and lead high performing teams

• Deep industry knowledge covering one or more of our primary industries such as Health Care, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present at the highest levels of leadership

• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with technical teams to transfer creative ideation and design to client deliverables

• Ability to plan and execute for strategic growth