Benchmark Education Company

Benchmark Education Company

Vice President, Creative Services

New Rochelle, USA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 91 days ago
AccessibilityBrand StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • This position is onsite at our New Rochelle office.
  • Development Efficiency: Establish a clean and effective workflow that meets deadlines established at projects' initiation.
  • Metrics & ROI: Link creative work to business KPIs and define success metrics (conversion, retention, NPS, task completion) and use evidence to prioritize investments.

Responsibilities

  • Design Stewardship: Establish and enforce design standards and guidelines; ensure quality and consistency across channels: email, ecommerce, video, collateral, advertising, social media, conferences, content platforms, and research/efficacy reports.
  • Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the principal creative partner to marketing leads, ensuring integrated visual messaging; translate stakeholder requirements into design priorities.
  • Team Leadership & Development: Hire and mentor designers and creative managers; build career ladders; define competencies and cultivate a high-performance creative culture.
  • Development Efficiency: Establish and document a clean and effective workflow that balances quality and scalability; in concert with product development teams, help ensure that all deadlines are met efficiently (simultaneous projects range from 1-week to 1-2-year turnarounds) and suggest solutions or adjustments to workflows as needed and in a timely fashion.
  • Management Prowess: Model and lead teams in development of market-responsive, deadline-observant institute and manage production schedules and budgets, identifying risks and mitigation strategies as needed.
  • Proven track record leading large creative teams in developing successful print and digital products (complex, multi-component) and multi-channel marketing initiatives (email, ecommerce, video, collateral, advertising, social media, conferences, content platforms, research/efficacy reports)
  • Establish and enforce design standards and guidelines; ensure quality and consistency across channels: email, ecommerce, video, collateral, advertising, social media, conferences, content platforms, and research/efficacy reports.
  • Act as the principal creative partner to marketing leads, ensuring integrated visual messaging; translate stakeholder requirements into design priorities.
  • Hire and mentor designers and creative managers; build career ladders; define competencies and cultivate a high-performance creative culture.
  • Model and lead teams in development of market-responsive, deadline-observant institute and manage production schedules and budgets, identifying risks and mitigation strategies as needed.

Requirements

  • Ability to work on site (in New Rochelle)

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree required

Compensation

  • The base salary range represents the low and high end of the expected salary range for the position.
  • The base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level.
  • $150,000 - $200,000

Benefits

  • The Vice President, Creative Services will define and guide the company's creative vision, ensuring design quality and consistency across products and channels, aligning creative outcomes with business strategy.
  • Vision & Strategy: Set high-level creative and design direction; translate business goals and brand strategy into coherent experience principles and long-term roadmaps.
  • 10+ years of creative leadership experience-product and promotion-preferably in educational publishing or related field
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in education, design, or related field preferred
  • Hybrid Product Development: Guide cross-functional teams to design products that seamlessly deliver content in print and digital formats and leverage digital tools to enhance teaching and learning.

Company info

  • Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction.
  • BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.
  • BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research.
  • Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.
  • Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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