Senior Creative Advertising Manager

This is a Full Time Job

Senior Creative Advertising Manager, Amazon

Senior Creative Advertising Manager, Amazon Mgm Studios Marketing

Amazon MGM Studios is the home for talent, creating and producing Original films and television series for a global audience. Original series premiere exclusively on Prime Video, which is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon MGM Studios also produces and acquires Original movies for theatrical release and exclusively for Prime Video, in addition to producing Original content for Freevee, Amazon's premium free streaming service.

Amazon MGM Studios is hiring for a dedicated and dynamic 360° Senior Creative Advertising Manager to contribute to innovative and impactful creative advertising and marketing campaigns that increase the viewership of our original series and films. The ideal candidate should have a knack for crafting engaging and high-quality entertainment campaigns that resonate with audiences across various channels. This role is well-suited for someone with prior experience in the entertainment or agency sector, possessing skills in AV, print, social, and experiential marketing.

Key job responsibilities
Creative Thinking
• Independently ideate and develop innovative long-lead creative advertising campaigns that tell stories, connect with customers, and drive viewership of our highest priority original series and movies.
• Have a strong POV and creative vision along with a clear, concise ability to provide direction to internal and external partners.
• Craft high-level creative briefs and presentation decks.
• Prepare photo shoot brief, sketches and comps that communicate concepts and campaign direction.
• Drive consensus for your campaign by clearly articulating your creative strategy and presenting concepts to peers, senior studios leadership, and executive producers/filmmakers.
• Solve for cross-functional business, customer, and stakeholder requirements while building creative that is breakthrough.
• Think globally and across platforms, mastering the idiosyncrasies of each and create tailored content across channels that help drive marketing objectives.
• Strive to create first-to-market ideas that raise the bar.

Creative Execution
• Lead the execution of key campaign creative assets within budget and on-time.
• Elevate the creative output of internal resources as well agency partners to ensure that all marketing assets meet high standards of creativity, innovation and brand association.
• Manage highly visible and complex projects that have wide impact across the business and that span multiple territories, teams, and platforms.
• Effectively direct and manage the development of all creative assets for creative campaigns including but not limited to: trailers, TV spots, key art, OOH, digital, social, merchandising and experiential.
• Forecast resourcing needs and work with key stakeholders to drive a schedule for projects while prioritizing and using resources effectively.
• Manage blockers or obstacles in the creative process with confidence and clear communication.
Identify and implement appropriate processes to insure an efficient and effective workflow.
• Facilitate meetings with all levels of management both internal and external.
• Collaborate with team to allocate, manage and track budgets for creative asset development.

Leadership
• Promote collaboration with internal stakeholders and foster positive agency relationships to achieve high-level outcomes.
• Work with senior leadership to create policies and procedures, best practices that impact the broader department.
• Proactively work to solve problems and communicate to senior management, and actively seek clarification when there is ambiguity.

A day in the life
• Establish and maintain effective communication channels with all project stakeholders, including internal teams and external partners, to ensure clarity and alignment on project objectives and progress.
• Build effective communication collaboration with global internal stakeholders and foster positive agency relationships to achieve high-level outcomes.
• Build strong relationships while earning trust and showing willingness to collaborate.

About the team
Preferred qualifications:
• 10 years of entertainment experience with expertise in AV, print, digital, social, branding and design.
• Experience leading creative teams in an entertainment environment.
• Developed campaign for global launch with unique creative in territory.
• A strong portfolio of work showing creative innovation with the ability to articulate big and breakthrough ideas in print, outdoor, AV, social, digital, events and experiential.
• Deep knowledge of storytelling and the customer journey.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Creative writing skills.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• 8 years of creative industry experience
• Experience defining the workflow within a marketing, production, or creative department or company
• Experience working at or with a creative or advertising agency, network, streaming service, or studio
• Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders, including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
• Experience working with digital asset management tools
• Experience leading process improvements and/or operations tool implementations (e.g. digital asset management tool)
• Experience managing direct reports