Creative Director in New York, NY

Director, Creative Design -Creative Director About Sapient Sapient, a business innovator, helps clients achieve extraordinary results from their customer relationships, business operations and technology. Leveraging a unique approach, breakthrough thinking and disciplined execution, Sapient leads its industry in delivering the right business results on time and on budget. Sapient works with clients that are driven to make a difference, including BP, Essent Energy, Harrah's Entertainment, Hilton International, Janus, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Nextel Communications, Sony Electronics, the U.S. Marine Corps, and Verizon. Founded in 1991, Sapient is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and operates across North America, Europe and India. More information about Sapient can be found at . Job Summary The Creative Director leads Creative Design teams and is responsible for understanding, planning, and leading the delivery of leading-edge Web solutions and software. The Creative Director is responsible for ensuring that the quality of design work produced by Sapient is of the highest standards. Key Responsibilities:

Provide art direction, mentorship, coaching to design teams ensuring each team member produces high quality design concepts and articulates to client and team members the rational behind each concept.

Actively shape the way design teams understand, represent and execute their work

Play a leadership role in developing client relationships and new business

Engage in thought leadership development

Manage to company and business unit financial goals and measures

Assume the role of the client's trusted advisor

Frame the business value from user experience initiatives and articulate this value to meet the client's business goals and objectives

Create estimations, SOWs and contracts for projects

Oversee project staffing Job Requirements:

Must provide url/portfolio

Bachelor's degree preferred in design-related discipline: Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer Interaction; Design Planning; Graphic Design; Communications.

10+ years of industry experience

Candidates must be well-versed in user-centered design methods and techniques

Proficient to expert in: Illustrator, Photoshop

Excellent verbal and written skills

Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously

Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams

Must have experience managing large creative teams

Prior experience in a consulting firm preferred

Experience in offline or various mediums a plus *Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role, which include hearing, speaking, typing and occasionally moving and/or lifting up to 15 pounds. Frequent travel may be required. Sapient is a registered service mark of Sapient Corporation. Keywords: design director, art director; creative director To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here