<aside> 🌟 Contract: Full Time

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<aside> 🌎 Location: Montreal or Remote. Operating on EST studio hours.

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<aside> ⏰ Closing Date: March 20, 2025

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About Wedge

Wedge is a globally-award winning, strategically-backed brand studio for distinction by design. We operate with the belief that Everything Can Be Special.

We work with a diverse range of ambitious clients across Consumer Packaged Goods, Beauty, Wellness, Lifestyle, Technology and beyond, to see the unseen. This means transforming business ideas into standout brand worlds, evolving legacies for their future, and taking on special projects like packaging, campaigns, books, retail design and more. Excellent craft and optimism are essential in all parts of our work.

About the role

Creative Directors lead multidisciplinary brand projects and teams. They are obsessive in craft, demonstrate strategic thinking, master the art of storytelling, and are highly attuned at the intersection of design, visual communications, and culture. Reporting to the Chief Design Officer and Founder, together they are responsible for setting and raising the standard of excellence, quality, and vision on all assignments. This person will establish, develop, and oversee the creative direction of projects from A to Z as well as manage the career paths of the teammates under their leadership.

Essential functions in your role

• Lead the creation of original brands into relevant, compelling, authentic and stand-out identities that bring impact though distinct character. Including design, packaging, digital, video, campaign, social, in-retail, traditional, etc.
• Bring a strong storytelling approach to brand building with the ability to articulate ideas with strategic thinking, clarity and empathy.
• Has the ability to see the unseen; unblocking challenges and inspiring new paths forward, bringing vision that inspires your team and clients beyond the obvious.
• Bring optimism and an industrious mindset to solving large, strategic, and complex creative problems.
• When relevant and required, hands on crafting the work from visual research, to copy to design solutions.
• Lead multiple complex projects at the same time across a wide range of scale (brand evolution, complex identity and packaging systems, culturally in-tune campaigns, etc.), to a high degree of quality and accountability.
• Model and foster an environment of teamwork and collaboration
• Guide and support the professional development of team members
• Takes lead on Case Study after the project is wrapped and get it across the finish line.
• Process client feedback into effective creative work, ensuring that we deliver not just what’s expected but what’s truly special.