Job Description

About the Job...

Were looking for a Creative Director with an art background who sees precision as an act of love.

You can look at the kernel of an idea and know if its worth chasing. You also know how to transfer that understanding to someone else. How to help them see what you see.

Were here to make things that actually change the world vs. just decorating it for a minute. You have to understand the difference to do this job.

You have agency. You have ambitions that are as big or bigger than ours. Your understanding of what you are now vs. what you could be are miles apart.

Youll lead creative across all of our partners. Youll lead teams. Love teams. Get in fights. Have the best days of your career and some of the hardest ones sometimes on the same day.

Were employee-owned. When you join you have a real stake in what we become. You wont be an employee youll be an owner. Youll be surprised by how much that matters.

What the role requires:

• 8 years significant time at the senior creative level
• A highly conceptual portfolio with breadth a point of view and a reverence for craft
• Experience leading & developing creative teams - not just managing them growing them
• Comfort executing your ideas in any and every medium
• Four-day work week in the office Monday through Thursday in Portland Maine

About VIA

VIA means The Way in Latin. Weve been finding the way for 33 years - for our clients for ourselves and most importantly for the humans on the receiving end of our work.

We started with $4000 and a set of principles we wrote in a hotel bar in fifteen minutes. That was 1993. We still use the same principles. They are our lighthouse. They keep us off the rocks:

Be Curious.

Honor the Process.

Think Like the Audience.

Create Respect.

Be on Time.

Be on Budget.

Figure It Out.

Find the Magic.

Do Work That Makes You Proud.

Believe.

We believe in ideas with consequences. Ideas that dont just look good in a deck or win a room for an afternoon. Ideas that change what people do next. Ideas that move markets. Ideas that alter destinies.

Were 100% employee-owned. Every person here has a real stake in what we become. That changes what you fight for. What youre willing to put your name on. What done actually means.

Were based in Portland Maine. Four-day work week. Some of the best benefits of any company our size in America. A 200 year old library that we get to work in every day knowing its ours. Great schools. An ocean. A food scene that has no business being this good.

Required Experience:

Director

Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Monday to Thursday

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