Allstate Creative Director
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Nov 15, 2019
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- Category
- Marketing / Communications, Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
About Allstate
You know Allstate as an insurance company, but did you know it’s among the top 10 Fortune 100 Companies in Chicago? Allstate has been named to Fortune's “Change The World List” for two years running, and as a top 10 company for innovation by The Wall Street Journal/Drucker Institute. Allstate has a long history of redefining how a company connects with its customers and empowers them to live confidently. Related accolades include:
World’s Most Admired Companies – Fortune Magazine
One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere Institute
Elite 100 List – InformationWeek Magazine
Top 50 Companies for Diversity (16-time award winner) – DiversityInc
Top 100 Green Companies, Newsweek
Job Description
Creative Director: Are you a Creative Director with experience bringing innovative ideas that influence and drive organizations to life? Do you enjoy mentoring other creative teams to foster and grow ideas in a team-oriented environment? If so, we invite you to bring your knowledge, skills, and experience to positively impact Allstate as Creative Director. Allstate is commited to the power of Creativity, Design and User Experience to build brands and grow the business.
Team Summary: The Allstate Creative team serves the entire enterprise, including Allstate Insurance, Esurance, SquareTrade, InfoArmor, Arity and other innovation-oriented emerging businesses that are part of this growing portfolio. The Allstate Creative team includes several Areas of Responsibility, including: Design, Advertising, Content, User Experience Design, Technology, and Production Studio. These teams provide creative solutions across the enterprise to accelerate creativity, innovation and business growth.
Job Summary: The Creative Director is responsible for leading and executing the creative vision for the company and delivering aesthetics, experience design and brand storytelling across the enterprise. This requires the ability to apply business knowledge, data and consumer insights to creative solutions that deliver results. The Creative Director will lead the art direction and copywriting teams. The Creative Director will oversee all projects and programs related to design aesthetics in support of Integrated Marketing Services, bringing brand storytelling to technology, business strategy and digital innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver creative across all channels – digital, web, social, broadcast, print, etc. – for internal and external audiences
- Develop and manage creative portfolio and brand standards across all work, on all brands
- Oversees creative for the enterprise to ensure integration across Marketing teams to enable business growth and success
- Serves as a strategic business partner to leaders across the enterprise which includes creative solutions for affiliates and subsidiaries as needed
- Responsible for delivering work aligned to strategy and brand
- Delivers original ideas that are clear, concise and convincing
- Proactively looks for opportunities to push the work to the next level
- Meets all deadlines with work that consistently exceeds expectations
- Provides guidance and direction to others thinking beyond their own work
- Can cover major assignments without the need for additional teams, while managing lower level teams on minor assignments
- Assures full trust in covering business partner meetings
- Can present ideas in a clear manner, can defend a point of view regarding those ideas, and is an active listener and problem solver when feedback is provided
- Works with creative leadership to foster new and innovative ideas
Job Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in advertising, design or an idea-led in-house agency
- BS or BA in Advertising, Design or other relevant degree required
- Portfolio that demonstrates proven track record of award-winning, business-building creative solutions
- Omni-Channel experience including TV, Print, Digital, Content/Video
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment
Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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