Description:
As a Senior Manager, Associate Creative Director - Muticultural Audiences, you'll be a driving force in Target Creative by leading a creative team that supports our Multicultural audiences. Your support for your team will include overseeing their development by providing motivation, coaching, and advocacy. You will establish strategies for achieving individual and team goals that align to the broader Target Creative vision and drive successful outcomes.

Alongside leading a team, you will also lead campaigns that connect our brand with Black guests. You will use both creative skill and audience knowledge to guide work that celebrates, resonates and furthermore helps to build and maintain meaningful connections with the Black community. You'll provide the creative vision to guide and inspire internal and external creative teams/agencies to meet and exceed business and marketing objectives. You will articulate Target's brand (voice and culture) to infuse the work with an unmistakable Target approach, seamlessly integrating a multicultural lens. Your work will live across channels, including Video, Social, Digital, Display, Direct Mail, and In-Store Experiences.

Multi-tasking and collaborating with partners across creative and marketing disciplines, you are responsible for providing clear, actionable and timely feedback, and meeting project deadlines. You are comfortable in hands-on creation, as well as guiding the work and in presenting to partners across the organization. You will need to demonstrate excellent taste level and experience in photo/art direction, graphic design, and typography. Critical to this role is staying current with retail trends and experiences, developing competent base knowledge of categories and guest behaviors, and being a passionate advocate for great design.

We'll support you along the way with personal and career development, to help you grow as a strong Senior Manager, Associate Creative Director. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of industry experience including video, direct mail, social, digital, influencers and experiential marketing
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop people, including providing meaningful feedback and managing performance
• Experience developing successful work for Black audiences.
• Strong conceptual skills and expertise in typography and use of photography
• Possesses refined presentation and negotiation skills, and the ability to align partners in high stakes moments.
• Ability to lead the team through challenging moments, keeping them motivated and results-focused.
• Flexible to travel (weekends included)

About us:

Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers.

Fueling the continued success of one of the world's most beloved and recognized brands is a distinctly capable, creative and innovative Marketing organization. Target Marketing is well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride ourselves on connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and deserve from Target. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, and then craft every interaction to build brand love. We are market experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to exciting and unique promotional marketing. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.

Target Creative is the in-house creative agency dedicated to bringing one of the world's most beloved and recognizable brands to life. Whether through design, marketing or brand work, we are the driving force behind delivering Target's dynamic, inventive and unmistakable storytelling to its massive audience.

Our mission is to inspire a sense of joy, wonder and excitement, and to take our guests-and ourselves-somewhere new. Never resting on past wins or settling for anything less than extraordinary, our origin story built us to thrive in the competitive and changing retail marketplace. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story, maximizing our messages across multiple platforms-whether via a digital art gallery or a new $1 billion children's clothing brand. Operating as one fully integrated team in both the U.S. and overseas, Target Creative comprises the best and brightest talent to execute market-leading creative strategy, design, writing, video production, operations, digital, UX, social media and more. We leverage smart and rewarding external partnerships while closely aligning with our Target teams. Together, we tackle every creative challenge with our amplified strengths, ultimately bearing the groundbreaking creative work that helps make Target the decisive guest favorite, year after year.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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