Manager, Creative Strategy – Design
Pearson VUE
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New Jersey • United States
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About the role
- Elevate the overall creative standard by developing ideas that reflect agency-level quality.
- Lead conceptual thinking for campaign-level, brand-defining, and high-impact Studio projects.
- Translate complex ideas into clear creative strategies, narratives, and design approaches.
- Shape briefs, frames, stories, and creative territories that guide the rest of The Studio.
- Provide creative direction across digital, editorial, environmental, social, and motion work.
- Serve as the anchor point between all creative verticals ensuring alignment, clarity, and consistency.
- Partner with Video & Media, Content & Copy, Digital Design, Brand System Management, and Operations to ensure shared understanding of creative direction.
- Facilitate idea development sessions, ideation workshops, and creative alignment conversations.
- Champion Pearson's brand identity system and ensure conceptual work pushes the brand forward while staying grounded in its strategic foundation.
- Lead creative reviews at all project stages; from concept through final delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in creative direction, design, or creative strategy in an agency or in-house studio.
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking, campaign development, and editorial/design excellence.
- Experience leading creative teams and guiding multi-disciplinary creative work.
- Skilled at shaping narratives, briefs, concepts, messaging frameworks, and design direction.
- Strong ability to communicate ideas visually and verbally, with clarity and inspiration.
- Deep understanding of brand systems, storytelling, and integrated creative development.
- Comfortable navigating a global matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
creative directiondesigncreative strategyconceptual thinkingcampaign developmenteditorial excellencenarrative shapingmessaging frameworksdesign directionbrand systems
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationcreative alignmentidea developmentfacilitationclarityinspirationstrategic thinkingstakeholder management