**Job Title**: Design Team Lead
**Location**: Jakarta, Indonesia
**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE**:
The role is a hybrid role that will be split between design and client management.
This role will report into a Lead Creative for all things creative and into a Regional Business Director for everything relating to the overall business and client leadership.
Together with a Junior Digital Designer, you will be leading an account around all things digital design including, social media, E-commerce, creative ideation, art working and offline design collateral.
You will also be responsible supporting with some reporting for the APAC account team.
**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**:
Key Roles and Accountabilities
- To be responsible for the full creative lifecycle from concept to execution
- To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service - from brief, creative, design and production
- To work closely with clients to create strong concepts from the initial briefing
- To develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the clients marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting the product or brand
- To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies
- To provide leadership, best practise and direction to the Junior Digital Designer and multidisciplinary client digital team
- Manage and coordinate the sharing of brand and campaign knowledge pertaining to the different projects/work you own coming from a country level across all internal and client departments as necessary, to aid the development of creative ideas for the project.
- To oversee and manage the preparation of all finished artwork files that will comply with the correct output specifications
- To ensure all design work adheres to the best practises of digital and social trends and requirements
- Resourcing and scheduling of you own work
- Managing projects deliverables and key deadlines
- Supporting with BAU Design work
- Quality control
- Client relations, main point of contact on-site, managing day to day relationships with key stakeholder
- Creative and quality oversight for work produce locally
- Work with key clients to deliver the following types of projects:
- Social media and E-Commerce specific like Facebook, Lazada and YouTube
- On-site design updates (mostly posters, icons, logos and presentation slides)
- Support on visual identity and tone of voice for campaign materials including POS and OOH
- Merchandise design and production
- Support on one-off projects (eg brand day, anniversaries, social activities)
- Constant and pro-active branded assets optimisation throughout the company
- Creating monthly MI reports and providing insight into account strategy
- Ensures SLA's/KPIs are adhered to
**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE**:
- To be self-motivated, working with little supervision, communicating clearly with a line manager about own development needs.
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- Ability to effectively manage people through leadership and mentoring.
- The ability to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity
- Ability to take and challenge a client's brief, help them through the creative process.
- Some exposure and knowledge of account management
- Ability to pull weekly financial figures.
- Experience of providing clear and accurate Management information.
- Creative ability with strong adobe CS (InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop)
- Strong Excel skills
- Ability to manage resource not only in terms of the onsite team but regular additional resource for peaks and projects
- A good multitasker
- Ability to manage a high volume of work across a team of three (themselves and two others)
- A good problem solver
- Comfortable managing large design projects
- Responsible for all billing on the account
- Guardian of the client's brand guidelines, constantly challenging and developing them
- Working knowledge of digital design and its requirements is a benefit
**Role-specific skills, knowledge and experience**
Essential:
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships
- To have previously pro-actively managed multiple projects and work to tight deadlines.
You will be coming into a new account that requires a strong creative lead
- Experience of developing creative ideas and be confident presenting these to the client
- To be self-motivated, working with little supervision
- Strong Adobe CS (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
- Relevant design/creative/management experience
- Relevant knowledge across production, print and digital
- Awareness of emerging trends in design and the digital landscap