Associate Creative Director, Mejuri
6 Month Contract
$150-190k
3 days a week in office
Fine jewelry brand
Job no longer available
Fine jewelry brand
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$150-190k
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To turn fine jewelry into an everyday occasion while working towards making a positive impact in our communities, the industry, and the world.
Role
Who you are
- Mejuri is seeking a talented, hands-on Associate Creative Director to lead our in-house design team for the next 6 months
- 8+ years relevant experience in an agency or in-house agency environment on the brand side
- A leader with a strong portfolio that demonstrates originality, innovation and multi-disciplinary thinking
- Solid business sense and experience in balancing creative vision with business priorities/objectives
- You are someone with an impressive portfolio that demonstrates a high standard and quality of work, delivering on consistency in brand look, feel, and experience
- Strong understanding and experience with the creative process and how to evaluate creative output in design, art direction
- Production savviness, knowing how to work within budgetary constraints; experience working with photographers, directors, and vendors is essential
What the job involves
- 4-6 Month Contract
- We are a team of retailers, creatives, technologists and strategists, and we are looking for someone special to join our team
- In this role, you will lead the Art Direction process from conception through design and production to delivery of content for all brand, digital product, campaign and evergreen creative assets
- You will have an opportunity to help shape the vision for how Mejuri innovates and elevates the creative voice across customer touchpoints and apply that vision to the design and implementation of creative strategies for high visibility and high impact
- Your work, inspiration, and background is culturally-relevant, fashion oriented and you would be responsible for cultivating a culture of creative excellence for the brand
- You will ensure every project under your purview lives up to the Chief Brand Officer’s expectations and the larger creative vision and objectives of the organization
- You will set the bar for creative excellence at the start of every project, think critically about every insight and work with interdepartmental peers to shape the overall direction of projects
- You will drive a number of projects simultaneously, making sure none of them backslide over the course of creative development, in collaboration with the Brand Operations team
- Lead the quality of creative work by inspiring excellence, innovation and brand relevance, providing direction and constructive feedback in collaboration with the ACD Copy, while reporting into the Chief Brand Officer
- Work closely with the Brand, Growth, Retail, Digital teams to interpret briefs with a clear creative vision. Build powerful presentations to get alignment on creative concepts, design and execution choices
- Balance innovative creative vision with business objectives + priorities
- Attend briefings/status meetings, handle cross-team interaction, pitch concepts in a compelling manner; communicate and monitor project progress
- Lead with passion, guide & coach the team on their work, growth and performance
- Lead brainstorms as needed
- Ensure work is of highest quality, reflects brand standards, and is on budget and on time on all touch points
- Lead the creation, execution, and continual evolution of the brand guidelines
- With support from the Brand Operations team, identify the best resources from the team based on project needs, ensure processes are efficient
- Assess creative work to ensure ideas are as powerful in reality as they are in concept
- Provide creative quality control over concepts and execution
- Oversee in-house execution and production of creative work
- Stay up to date with new innovations and industry trends
- You set the tone for forward-thinking, positive, and an industry-leading creative organization infused with the brand vision; also contributes to thought leadership
Our take
Traditional jewelry retailers often target men for gifting - in part to make higher mark-ups acceptable. Mejuri, however, is putting the purchasing decision back with women with its direct-to-customer strategy. Instead of releasing large batches of seasonal pieces, Mejuri introduces only a small quantity of products each week, which allows it to translate trends and consumer feedback sentiments into its designs in a timely manner.
Having accumulated millions of visitors to its website, it is clear that Mejuri has captured a lot of interest. It has released over 1,000 designs since its launch, has an impressively long waitlist, and boasts that a large portion of its monthly transactions come from returning customers.
Despite its online focus, Mejuri has opened a number of brick-and-mortar stores across the US, Canada, and the UK. The company's current focus appears to be on this offline expansion, as it tries to push beyond its biggest markets into the other countries it ships to, as well as investing in branding and the customer experience.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2019
$23m
SERIES B
Sep 2018
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29m
Company benefits
- Parental support: we offer parental leave salary top up of up to 80%, as well as a personalized return-to-work transition and accommodation plan for all parents
- Health & Wellness: We offer you competitive medical and dental benefits, alongside a schedule that prioritizes whole health including personal days and mental health coverage
- Generous Total Rewards: Including a minimum of three weeks paid vacation for all corporate roles. And the cherry on top? A generous product discount
- Hybrid Work Environment: We believe in balance. Our corporate employees have a hybrid experience, spending three days a week (Tuesday-Thursday) as we are big believers in the value social capital provides our team members and our business. IRL time unlocks trust, creativity, innovation, career development and more
- Mejuri Passport: Your ticket to the destination of your choosing. The Mejuri Passport allows corporate employees meeting the criteria to work in any location for one month each year
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Noura Sakkijha
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience at CIBC as Process Analyst for 1 year, and Associate Specialist for 3 years.
Majed Masad
(Co-Founder & President)Previously an Investment Banking Partner at FirePower Capital for 7 years, and a Special Advisor for 1 year.
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