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Location: In the NYC Office / Remote when possible

Compensation: $120,000 to $148,800. This is a 1099 Independent Contractor position.

Start Date: 08/01/25 or earlier

About VMGROUPE

VMGROUPE is a 360˚ agency unlike any other. We are one group, and an extension to our clients' internal teams. Recognized as a strategic thought-leading partner for leading and high-profile brands in the beauty, fashion, and luxury lifestyle goods space, serving client who demand clarity, excellence, and cultural resonance. Hyper international and headquartered in New York, we lead with diversity, ensuring creativity that resonates globally, and is fresh and on the pulse. We build brands. We build experiences. We build systems. We build resort villages. We're juggernauts and polymaths, not bound to a list of predefined capabilities. As our clients claim, there is nothing we do not do. We do it all, beyond well, with the highest level of expertise and attention. We elevate brands and push luxury forward, because we are DOPE AF, and do Dope AF $$$hit. We are ultra-refined, and forever uber young with a GenZ sense of humor.

You Are

A Creative Director with otherworldly capability and creative leadership. You move across disciplines with fluency and purpose. You lead strategy, brand identity, design systems, copy, packaging, spatial design & development, CGI, and content production. You are experienced in building brands, directing creative, and operationalizing ideas across channels. You understand platform logic, channel behavior, and the specific needs of eCommerce, digital media, and retail systems. You are proficient in briefing AI tools, shaping UX flows, and managing large-scale brand initiatives across performance and awareness objectives. You operate at hyper-speed, with structured focus and without loss of precision. You create tension to activate energy when needed. You resolve tension to maintain direction when required. You manage the room, hold the vision, and drive the work forward with precision and clarity.

A Hands-on, executable Creative Director with vision, discipline, and deep design intelligence. You lead with clarity and confidence, driving concept to completion across mediums. You understand how to interpret business goals, client personalities, and strategic intent into creative that works. You are a design system thinker, a builder of high-performing teams, and a creative strategist fluent in aesthetics and business outcomes. You lead by example, execute with excellence, and inspire those around you. You possess highly advanced executable skills in all Creative Cloud Applications. You roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty. Not relying on verbal directing but by doing and showing.

Most importantly: Not a drama queen but you reign dramatically.

The Role

You will lead creative across branding, packaging, content, campaigns, and digital experience. You will direct concept development, oversee creative teams, and manage cross-functional execution. You will partner closely with Account Directors and the Chief Creative Officer to ensure work meets the brief, upholds the standard, and delivers results. You will guide visuals, language, casting, art direction, and post-production across formats and channels. You will represent VMGROUPE's creative voice to clients and collaborators.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide development of 360˚ creative across all visual disciplines

• Lead concept ideation, art direction, and design execution

• Maintain creative excellence across packaging, branding, digital, CGI, motion, and content

• Ensure each solution aligns to brand strategy, positioning, and business objective

• Oversee all presentations, reviews, and client-facing creative discussions

Team Direction

• Mentor and manage designers, art directors, writers, producers, and editors

• Assign creative talent based on skill and opportunity

• Review, refine, and approve creative work from concept through final delivery

• Support team growth through feedback, systems, and daily leadership

Production Oversight

• Direct still and motion shoots on set and in studio

• Approve casting, styling, set design, and shot lists

• Partner with post teams to finalize image selection, retouching, and delivery

• Collaborate with CGI, 3D, and metaverse teams on concept and execution

Business & Client Partnership

• Translate business goals into brand and campaign strategy

• Own visual and conceptual tone for pitch work and key presentations

• Lead visual storytelling across decks, lookbooks, and launch tools

• Collaborate with Account Directors to maintain scope and timelines

• Support client relationship through consistent creative leadership

Practical Requirements

• 10+ years of creative experience with 5+ in a leadership or director-level role

• Proven success directing creative for high-profile brands and campaigns

• Expertise across brand identity, packaging, digital, social, motion, and experiential

• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, Google Workspace, and design collaboration tools

• Comfortable directing on set, remote, and hybrid

• Strong visual storytelling and concept development skills

• Experienced in mentoring teams and managing complex workflows

• Clear communicator and skilled presenter

• Familiar with integrated production timelines, agency processes, and creative ops systems

• Familiarity with Shopify ecosystem and eCommerce content is a plus

What We're Looking For From the Heart

• Calm, clear creative leadership

• Vision with structure

• Curiosity and taste

• High energy and initiative

• Reliable under pressure

• Precision in detail and delivery

• Committed to excellence and team growth

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time Independent Contractor position

• Role is NYC-based with flexibility, but 90% of the role requires on-set or in-office presence

Seniority level

• Seniority levelDirector

Employment type

• Employment typeContract

Job function

• Job functionDesign, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• IndustriesAdvertising Services

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