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In This Role
The Ideal Person
At Four Hands, we don’t just design furniture, we furnish style. Our creative marketing team specializes in partnering with the product development team to bring our products to life through photography and expression.
In addition to marketing its products across national brands and retailers of all sizes, we also work with residential and commercial designers, offering a direct to-the-trade online marketplace. It has also made e-commerce a revenue focus and succeeded in attracting major online players.
At Four Hands we do everything from design, manufacture and distribute home furnishing products. While we are most well-known for being a leading global designer and wholesaler of lifestyle home furnishings, we provide much more than that.
Four Hands' Creative Marketing Team is looking for an an experienced Creative Operations Director to manage and evolve Creative Services process across Imagery (photo + CGI), Brand Creative (design + copy), and Visual Merchandising for showrooms.
This role is responsible for managing the creative operational production teams. The ideal candidate has strong leadership qualities, a knack for problem solving across multiple mediums, experience getting teams to operate consistently, and is excited to roll up their sleeves work alongside their team. This role will directly manage some creative production while mentoring and establishing production best-practices for direct reports.
This role is responsible for managing the creative operational production teams. The ideal candidate has strong leadership qualities, a knack for problem solving across multiple mediums, experience getting teams to operate consistently, and is excited to roll up their sleeves work alongside their team. This role will directly manage some creative production while mentoring and establishing production best-practices for direct reports.
In This Role
- Manage all creative producers across Creative Services at Four Hands: Imagery, Brand Creative, and Visual Merchandising/Styling
- Partner with creative leaders to plan and organize efficient and scalable productions
- Inspire direct reports and peers to align on process and communicate effectively cross functionally
- Use operational problem-solving skills to assess challenges across Creative Services and propose solutions
- Unify creative request process utilizing production tools
- Negotiate and Communicate expectations, dates, and milestones with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Plan and communicate photoshoot production both in studio and on location
- Uphold the Core Values and be a valuable member of the Four Hands Team
- Other tasks as defined by Management
The Ideal Person
- People Manager, comfortable leading and inspiring teams
- Manager-doer: work alongside your team
- Passion for clear and consistent organization
- Wizard with timelines, work backs, and holding teams accountable
- Travel as needed, Four Hands hosts tradeshows 4x/year in Las Vegas NV and Highpoint, NC
- Occasionally work extended hours as needed to meet deadlines
- Expert with Project Mgmt. tools/software
