Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.
Our marketing team is charged with an important task – sharing our Staples story. We use customer data and analytics to help us understand and improve our customers’ experiences, drive customer retention and encourage brand loyalty. Our team is diverse, with skillsets and responsibilities ranging from graphic design, content creation and performance marketing to internal communications and loyalty & rewards programs. We work together to provide expertise and guidance, so that the Staples brand is well represented in all areas.
What You’ll Be Doing
Create innovative new ideas and designs that are compelling, original content for a variety of digital, video and print-based assets with a focus on digital display assets.
Leverage brand identity guidelines, the Art Director will execute against a defined brand style guide to align with key customer segments, business drivers and campaign objectives.
Ensure brand is visually represented and maintain a fresh and relevant expression of the brand within marketing campaigns, digital assets, and sales collateral.
Ensure on-brief communications are developed in a timely manner.
Ability to partner with Project Management and Business/Marketing partners to ensure creative is on brand and on strategy.
Work closely with the Associate Creative Director, Creative Director, project management team, marketing operations and copywriter.
What You Bring To The Table
Ability to actively present designs that are on strategy and on brand.
Strong listening skills, customer service skills, verbal communications, and the ability to translate agency briefs into breakthrough creative executions.
Ability to demonstrate a sense of partnership and caring within the creative team while guiding the team’s output.
Ability to create innovative new design ideas and original content and create a variety of digital, video and print-based assets.
What’s Needed- Basic Qualifications
6+ years of professional-level experience required; in an external or internal agency
1+ year of managerial / supervisory experience
What’s Needed- Preferred Qualifications
Experience in B2B communications and understand fundamental marketing engagement and customer experience practices
Experience in designing effectives digital communications