Creative Director

**Description**:
**About Gartner Digital Markets**:
Gartner Digital Markets is a business unit within Gartner. Our mission is to empower organizations to accelerate growth by helping them embrace the right technology and services.

Gartner Digital Markets is the world’s largest platform for finding software and services. With more than 100 million annual visitors across four buyer destinations—Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice, and UpCity—and 70 localized sites, Gartner Digital Markets helps software and service providers build their brand, capture demand, and understand their market. As the only destination for software and services driven by independent, objective research and verified customer reviews, we help connect providers with in-market buyers to fuel growth across the full funnel.

**What we’re looking for**:
The Creative Director is part of Gartner Digital Markets Global Brand Marketing Team. He/she will be responsible for building and managing our newly formed in-house creative agency that is responsible for the design and production of all digital channel marketing assets for Capterra, Software Advice, GetApp and UpCity. Working closely with the leadership team, the Creative Director will be responsible for helping to define each brands’ creative needs, building the appropriate team to support the creative needs and implementing a unified vision for the team as well as fostering a collaborative multi-discipline environment.

**Why you’ll want to come to work**:

- Help define a simple, scalable, and impactful creative vision to drive the creative strategy and execution of all of Gartner’s digital brand properties across all channels and platforms.
- Provide leadership and expertise around design, brand, user research, and innovation that translates into simple, scalable, and effective designs and executions.
- Own the end-to-end creative process to effectively conceptualize and communicate creative standards, collateral, and marketing objectives.
- Relentlessly prioritize creative projects using GDM's business priorities as a framework.
- Ensure we’re on top of the latest creative trends and design principles.
- Collaborate and partner with the brand, content and marketing teams to create world-class, user-centric, branded experiences.
- Collaborate across the organization to create comprehensive and coordinated strategies
- Work closely with brand, product, content, and marketing teams to identify and develop creative assets that drive revenue for Gartner Digital Markets.
- Analyze and synthesize results and data into actionable recommendations.
- Build and lead a team of creative professionals fostering career development and growth paths for team members in alignment with company and personal objectives
- Inspire the team to greatness and support creative team members as they ideate, collaborate, and design new experiences.

**What you’ll bring to the team**:
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, marketing, design or similar creative field.
- 10+ years of video/advertising/design/UX/UI background required with professional experience in digital.
- Creative agency background with recent experience working with Fortune 500 B2C brands.
- Proven project management, prioritization, leadership, strategy, people management, interpersonal, presentation, organizational and communication skills.
- Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and ability to balance customer needs with business goals in developing solutions.
- Understanding of web analytics and A/B and multivariate interface testing.
- Outstanding leadership and people management skills.
- Exceptional communication, meeting facilitation, and presentation skills.

Check out our video to learn about who we are, and what we do:
**What you’ll find**:

- Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
- A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
- A chance to make an impact - your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
- Frequent social activities such as movie night, laser tag, bowling, escape room, summer beach party, hiking & bbq, and more
- A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
- Fresh fruit, snacks, selection of teas, fair trade organic coffee and a fridge full of beer for our Thursday Beer O’Clock.

**What you’ll receive**:

- Competitive compensation.
- 23 days annual holiday and an additional day off for your birthday.
- Private Medical and Dental Care.
- Life and Disability Insurance.
- Public Transport Subsidy.
- Ticket Restaurant Card.
- Childcare Vouchers (Ticket Guarderia).
- IncentiFit - annual reimbursement for health-and-wellness-related activities.
- Pension Scheme.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Gartner Gives Charity Match.
- Relocat