Creative Director
Location: United States
Reach is seeking a full-time Creative Director who not only has extensive experience directing other designers but is passionate about creating industry-leading creative assets across mostly video & animation but will also engage in other digital design. As a Creative Director at Reach, this person will push boundaries and be able to deliver a broad set of aesthetics across animation, video and digital projects.
This is a dynamic and integral part of our growing creative team as we establish and elevate our design standards across multiple platforms.
Our ideal candidate is a storyteller, artist, strategist, leader and doer. You love to tell a good story and know how to convey the message to the audience. You must possess strong visual storytelling skills. You must have the ability to inspire and collaborate with a team of illustrators, animators, video editors, writers and designers in the development of content that is engaging, entertaining, on message, and within deadlines. Prior experience in animation, video production and as a Creative Director preferred.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 6+ years directing designers in digital environments
- Interact with stakeholders and teachers to gather and interpret design needs
- Guide the creative strategy for storyboards, animations, video content, sound design, graphic design and 3D assets
- Absolutely exceptional design portfolio of recognizable work for high profile clients
- An eye for detail, typography and color
- An understanding of current animation, video and digital trends
- Ability to concept unique ideas
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities
- Working knowledge of the video production and animation process
- A start-up mindset and passion
- Deep Expertise in digital design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Cinama 4D
- Comfortable collaborating online (Zoom, email, software)
Applications without a stellar portfolio will not be considered.
Compensation
Reach offers a salary commensurate with experience and qualifications as well as a fun, hard-working, entrepreneurial work environment.
About Reach
Reach is an online education platform for K-12+ that makes the world’s best teachers accessible to anyone, anywhere, affordably. Reach combines great teachers with illustration, animation, storytelling and technology to engage students and track learning progress in real-time. Reach’s mission is to elevate and equalize education around the world by giving back through our 1:1 + 1% giving model – for every subscription purchased we will give a subscription to a child in need + we give 1% of our gross revenue to provide tech and infrastructure to further education around the world.