Global Associate Creative Director

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Powering the Creative Future of Wahl

For more than a century, Wahl has shaped industries, sparked categories, and set the standard for craftsmanship and innovation. Today, we're looking for a visionary Global Associate Creative Director to help elevate our brand, sharpen our global identity, and drive the creative direction that fuels the next era of Wahl storytelling.

If you're a creative leader who loves building beautiful, strategic, high-impact work, and you thrive at the intersection of brand vision, design excellence, and global influence, this role puts you right where the energy is.

What You'll Do

You'll define and protect the creative heartbeat of the Wahl brand, ensuring everything we release is smart, strategic, and inspiring across every region we serve. Your day-to-day will include:

• Define the creative vision and brand identify for brand and sub-brands.
• In partnership with the Global Brand Team, establish the creative direction for brand, category, and product campaigns across multiple communication platforms.
• Delivers full go-to-market (GTM) kit of assets with creative and copy for regional adoption across all relevant communication channels.
• Inspire and motivate team of designers to create remarkable work for global adoption.
• Ensures maintenance of brand standards by reviewing and approving all package and campaign design concepts, illustrations and photography.
• Oversees or develops presentations for internal and external meetings.
• Supports the brand marketing and media teams to generate ideas to develop effective, results-driven creative marketing concepts.
• Consistently research, identify and share current design trends and competitive reviews as they relate to the brand.
• Demonstrates strong aesthetic skills with the ability to combine various design disciplines (color theory, typography, contrast, balance, repetition, alignment, etc.) to create high-value campaigns.
• Provide quality control including proofing, reviewing, measuring, and evaluating creative output performance.
• Promote continual creative improvement and actively contribute to a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability
• Research and quote projects while adhering to budgets set forth by stakeholders
• Assists in photoshoot art direction and scheduling, and image retouching

Leadership

• Leads internal design team in creative concepting, through-out all design phases from initial overarching brand concept, through consumer testing and leadership approval.
• Lead internal (global and regional) and agency teams to develop inspiring, strategically driven campaigns, informed by data.
• Maintains regular communication with regional counterparts to ensure all are working with a holistic execution across all brand channels.
• Balance multiple campaigns and projects.
• Attends and oversee creative production when necessary.
• As a leader, sets examples through work, behavior, effort and attitude.
• Must be hands-on leader, willing to execute alongside the team.
• Supervise daily workflow, assign project workload, and monitor deadlines and budgets.
• Provide clear, insightful, and objective critiques of regional and global creative work in connection to the strategic vision.
• Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to regional and global creative team members, contractors, and outside agencies.

Budget & Performance Management

• Set and oversee creative development budgets and allocate resources effectively.
• Review creative performance and optimize for continuous improvement and effectivenes

What You Bring

• 7 years of increasing responsibility with hands on creative development.
• 3 years of experience in leading the strategy and managing/mentoring creative teams.
• Experience managing campaign development with external agencies.
• Experience developing creative for global adoption.
• Expert at presenting ideas in all group sizes, both internally and externally.
• Strong knowledge of 360 campaign development and creative process.
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• A passion for brilliant copy and beautiful design.
• Instinct to lead with vision and creative inspiration.
• Comfortable estimating and scoping projects.
• Proven experience with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Suite, MS Word, PPT, and Excel.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects while maintaining a clear sense of priorities.
• Experience consulting with cross-functional partners and business leaders on artistic and creative direction.
• Experience serving as a trusted advisor from a creative/design perspective.
• Understand the essential role visual design plays in helping to interpret stories, engage audiences and meet organization-wide goals.
• A strategic thinker with a broad vision, a Senior Graphic Designer can challenge conventional boundaries and stays current on innovations and best practices in the fields of design and design-related technology.

Core Competencies

• Drives Results
• Global Perspective
• Decision Quality
• Builds Effective Teams
• Instills Trust
• End User Customer Focus
• Strategic Mindset
• Drives Vision, and Purpose

Why You'll Love Wahl Clipper

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being and growth, including:

• Low-cost BCBSIL medical, dental, and vision plans
• A generous company-matched 401(k) and profit sharing
• Tuition support to fuel your learning
• Paid holidays and a vibrant, casual work environment

But that's just the beginning. At Wahl, you'll also enjoy:

• A legacy of quality and innovation.
• A team that values your expertise and ideas.
• Opportunities to grow and contribute to meaningful projects.
• A culture built on respect, precision, and progress.

Ready to Lead Our Creative Future?

If you're driven by vision, strategy, storytelling, beauty, and building world-ready creative work - we want to meet you. This is your opportunity to shape a global brand story with real impact.

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Salary : $135,000 - $155,000