Digital Director- Contract Jobs

We are now looking to bring on a talented Digital Director to join our Zulubot team for a Mat Leave cover Contract. We are a close knit team and looking for truly collaborative, positive team-players. If that’s you, then you’ll love it here!

Key Responsibilities

• You will bring together bespoke teams of freelancers, perfectly tailored for each project, manage the team, oversee agile production processes, workflows, budgets, contracts and schedules, ensuring that deadlines are hit.
• You will have an entrepreneurial mindset and always be looking for New Business opportunities, finding areas where we can bring in new business by building our capabilities.
• You will leverage our office space to become a digital creative community hub: setting up a new-tech demo space and also bringing the digital community together through hosting events.
• You will bring a ready-to-go network of digital innovation freelancers and continually look to build this out, making up a large part of the Zulubot Creator Network.
• Assessing feasibility, creating costings and workback schedules, etc;
• You will work with finance to identify and obtain any grants/monies available for digital innovation / R+D projects, that will help maximise our ability to over-deliver on projects.
• Looking to resource the work with in-house employees first, pulling in freelancers where needed – and if absolutely required, partnering with external vendors.
• You will then lead projects through production, working alongside agency producers where appropriate.
• You will nurture existing relationships we have with platform partners like Facebook and Snap (looking to become an official production partner for both as a source of new business), as well as establishing and developing relationships with innovation partners, looking to establish mutually beneficial partnerships to elevate the work and maximise return on investment.
• You will lead and oversee the digital team, having daily check ins, resourcing projects, reviewing processes and implementing new ones if needed.
• You will also lead and oversee production across all digital innovation projects (AR, VR, AI, voice, etc.) with some of our key clients, as part of the new innovation fund.
• You will mentor digital production personnel, showing great leadership, educating and inspiring, while looking to develop their skillsets and manage their career progression.
• You will work alongside creatives and strategists in bringing innovation ideas to life, potentially liaising directly with client in a Project Manager / accounts capacity.
• You will be the main point-person for all digital production coming from the agency:
• You will champion innovation and cutting-edge opportunities across the wider agency, showcasing great work and helping to inspire creative cultural change from more traditional approaches to being truly digital-first.

What we’re looking for

• A curious approach to development in new technologies, and the ability to research and present details on how they may be applied in advertising.
• A passion for continuous learning that leans into the future and embraces the dynamic nature of platforms and technology.
• A history of client facing production experience working with innovation technologies
• A track record of successfully producing and delivering digital experiential projects involving design, development, 3D and asset creation.
• An entrepreneurial approach to leading the projects with autonomy to make business development decisions

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of design, development and content.
• 10+ years of relevant experience working with brands, agencies and platforms
• Hands on knowledge of client relationships, budgeting, timelines and project delivery
• Experience coaching and managing teams to successful outcomes.
• Experience working on large brands, with nuanced and complex strategies.

Zulu Alpha Kilo is an equal opportunity employer. It prohibits discrimination based on age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws. Zulu Alpha Kilo is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in Zulu.