Global Presentations Account Director (Hybrid)

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry's most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

RR Donnelley is adding a Global Presentations Account Director to their New York City team!

*This is a Hybrid role working 3 days in office, 2 days remote*

The Global Presentations Account Director will help manage a graphic design / creative team that creates captivating and innovative presentations for our bulge bracket, global investment banking client. This role will provide thought leadership and excel in aligning personnel across creative, traffic, proofreading, and project management in the on-time and accurate delivery of creative services projects. He/she must have experience in communications design including business strategy and design. He/she must have the ability to work creatively within a corporate brand and a fast-paced environment. They will manage all creative resources to provide quality products and services, on schedule, and within budgeted cost parameters.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborating with the creative management team, design team, traffic, proofreading, and project management to identify project needs and design finished product to support the businesses and marketing objectives of the client's brand strategy and maintain the creative concept of the work, keeping it on strategy, meaningful and visually impactful

• Works to mentor and coach graphic design team members

• Develops creative and graphic concepts in collaboration with the assigned team

• Solves business challenges through marketing and smart creative design

• Takes ownership, leads initiatives, and successfully executes through all stages of creative development on target, on time, and on budget

• Maintain and enhance the bank's identity by working creatively within the corporate Brand.

• Manage the execution of the work, ensuring that creative projects are completed and meeting budget and schedule targets.

• Understands the client's design needs and methodology

• Effective communication with peers, senior management, and clients across all topics from business to creative.

• Leads creative teams and will have direct reports.

• Bachelor's degree in area relative to the business

• Minimum 7 years of experience in an Operational Management role in a similar client facing position

• Ability to lead teams & collaborate with varying internal and external clients

• Possesses a strong developing portfolio of imaginative work

• Organizational skills, adaptability, and composure under fire are equally important

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to build and maintain strong and effective customer and internal relationships

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, along with the ability to listen for understanding to execute the work according to the customer's needs

• Strong project-management skills, organizational skills, and time-management skills

• Experience presenting/pitching concepts to internal clients and external customers and sourcing vendors

• For Creative Team Managers:

  • Banking, agency, or in-house corporate design experience preferred

  • Well-versed in Macintosh platform (OSX) and industry-standard applications:

  • Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and MS Office. SketchUp or similar

  • 3D rendering programs are a plus. Must be highly proficient in CS3 Design software and other applicable programs

  • New ideas, great design sense, copywriting skills (a plus), and the ability to prepare projects for print are essential

  • Understanding of basic web development and good user interface concepts

RRD's current salary range for this role is $105,900 to $169,500/year. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee, and the range may change in the future. At RRD, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon, but not limited to education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. Depending on the role, in addition to base salary, the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus, commission or incentive program. RRD's benefit offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.

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RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans