🇻🇳 Creative Director

Xin chào, ambitious creative genius! You, who seek to collaborate and accomplish missions with high-performing teams. You, who are excited to lead the next generation of rising creatives in Vietnam and abroad. You, who are looking to be challenged, to grow, and to achieve massive success. This JD is not for the timid. This is the opportunity for the crazy person who has the desire and fire to build our Vietnam business.

⚔️ Qualities & Capabilities

• You have honed strong leadership and management skills. Ideally, you’d have spent many years leading in-house design studios or, at an advertising agency.
• Your English communication is fluent at a comparable level to native speakers. This includes reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and creative briefing.
• You are a creative mind and a lateral thinker. You think big and small―equally capable of big picture vision and attention to detail.
• You read a lot, including books about business, strategy, psychology, marketing, branding, and advertising. You are insightful and inquisitive. You ask interesting questions. You constantly learn new things to hone your mental sharpness and inventiveness.
• You have at least 8 years of experience in the creative business of branding, marketing, and advertising.
• Curious about human nature, you study psychology and observe behaviour, which gives you the ability to empathize with any audience.
• You think independently. You find sketching out and/or jotting down ideas by hand helps steer your brain and keeps your creative thoughts structured. You debate ideas assertively and collaborate open-mindedly. Once a decision is made, you move forward promptly.
• You are driven to create great work. You are a composed communicator, able to present ideas to different clients and audiences. You are tech-savvy and adaptable to new technologies and/or systems quickly.
• You are cultured, but not snobby. You are confident, but not egotistical. You are humorous, but not crass.

You are aligned with our cultural values.

🛡 Responsibilities

• Build, mentor and grow creative team in Vietnam (strategists, writers, and designers)
• Provide creative direction for B2B (and some B2C) communication (strategize, ideate, conceptualize, write, edit)
• Contribute to vision, direction, execution, presentation, and delivery on a range of projects
• Understand client objectives, project constraints, and market context to develop recommendations
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions
• Embody and drive creative excellence
• Raise thought leadership for company and clientele
• Embody and drive creative excellence
• Contribute to marketing and sales pitches
• Collaborate to guide and evolve the creative process
• Actively participate in nurturing company culture

🌏 Opportunities

• You will have meaningful work and meaningful relationships.
• You will play a vital role in shaping, executing, and overseeing the creative work for our company and clientele, including local and global brands across industries.
• You will build and nurture the best creative talents in Vietnam.
• You will work with a diverse range of creative formats.
• You will collaborate with a fast-moving team, in a stimulating and ever-evolving environment.
• You will benefit from kaizen operations and clear communication.
• You will pursue growth and leadership opportunities.
• You will make decisions, and see them through successes, failures, and lessons learned.
• You will step into your discomfort zone.Again and again.
• You will study new things, and teach what you learn.
• You will help your team and your company grow. You will help your clients grow. You will help your community grow. You will help make the world a better place.
• You will contribute to our company’s MTP, which is to raise intelligence and consciousness.
• Compensation will be commensurate with experience and performance.

🏆 Bonus Attributes

• You speak multiple languages
• You play a musical instrument
• You are fond of a wide range of music
• You appreciate great food
• You work hard and play hard

📑 Application Requirements

Respond to this posting with a cover letter, including the following:

• Who you are, where you are from, and why you’re applying for this opening.
• Share your favourite quote on copywriting and storytelling, and another one on leadership and management. Tell us what each quote means to you.
• End your letter with a laugh — literally. Tell us your 3 favourite comedians and why.

Portfolio: Include PDF with links

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