Associate Creative Director, Campaigns LatAm

About the team

The Campaigns Team at Uber is charged with boldly connecting our business with our users. Creative excellence is the measure of our success. No matter how large or small the campaign, we apply our persuasion with diligence and heart. Across every campaign asset, social asset and activation executions. 

About the role

We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director with a solid background in advertising to support our LATAM region. The role focuses on delivering creative campaigns and communications across the regions to ensure the various business needs are achieved. The role demands great conceptual thinking, flawless execution, bold innovation, passion, and optimism. The ideal candidate has deep experience in leading and creating work for the world’s most recognized brands and has a solid understanding of advertising and communication, corporate identity, and digital innovation. 

What the candidate will do

• Build brand consistency and alignment across the LATAM region through the work we build and the work we ask partner agencies to produce.

• Align with the Head of Creative to ensure a consistent direction, style, and methodology.

• Use sharp judgment and visionary leadership skills to guide teams and agencies through the creative process to launch engaging, strategic world-class marketing.

• Set the bar high and get there fast without sacrificing quality for speed.

• Roll up your sleeves and get into the details when needed, while also knowing when to lead and when to help.

• Help everyone excel, and have your process and approach be celebrated, emulated and copied by teams throughout the organization.

• Work among other exceptionally talented staff in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, highly collaborative environment.

• Manage and direct outside agencies in a variety of cross disciplinary executions from concept and execute both large scale and small scale to brand expressions that are incredibly impactful and positive.

• Make a measurable impact on brand perception and growth by leveraging the right marketing tactics with breakthrough creative executions.

• Build team camaraderie and apply best practices in cross region knowledge sharing.

   

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years working experience across international advertisement agencies, especially as an Associate Creative Director or equivalent (preferably in a traditionally managed creative or digital agency environment).

• Degree in design, communications, marketing, or equivalent. 

• Fluency in English and Spanish.

• Highly strategic and conceptual thinker with a love of storytelling and that pushes creative boundaries.

• Strong business acumen, with a solid understanding of how to achieve business objectives while meeting an expected brand standard and high bar for aesthetic quality.

• Experienced overseeing relationships with ad agencies and production houses.

• Experience managing stakeholders in a large global org.

• A solid understanding of how creativity can achieve business objectives while still meeting an encouraged brand standard for aesthetic and communication quality.

• Experience directly managing, mentoring, and building creative teams.

• Ability to present a strong body of work across multiple media channels.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong conceptual thinking.

• Tact to find commonalities between differing opinions and needs across agency partners and business partners.

• An ability to work with different time zones and understand how to scale ideas within various cultural markets.

• Clear and effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

• Strong analytical ability, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

• Outstanding organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.

• Highly productive with the ability to execute with limited direction and often ambiguous challenges.

• Initiative to solve problems big and small.

• Optimism and excitement for your work, a love for the next big challenge, and a passion for business impact.

• Work experience in one or more LATAM markets, having lived in multiple LATAM markets is a bonus.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.