The Traits - We are looking for a creative expert to join the Brand Influence & Identity team. You should excel at coming up with big ideas and bringing them to life with engaging visuals and thought-provoking copy. As a creative leader, you are constantly pushing our brand expression while keeping the strategic positioning top of mind. You take great ideas and turn them into fully functional campaigns. You solve problems and think proactively, always stepping up to the next challenge.

The Team - The Brand Expression team defines, maintains, and expands the Thunder brand. As a creative partner to the various departments within the Thunder organization, we supply creative solutions, language, and design support for a wide variety of campaigns, using central brands and visual themes that help the Oklahoma City Thunder and Oklahoma City Blue basketball teams connect with our fans locally and around the globe.

The Role - As a creative leader, you are independently proactive. You are a veteran in the creative process, introspective to your work, and motivational. You are responsible for setting the standard for layout, design, narrative positioning, campaign development, and production on multiple projects, while applying your individual talent, and collaborating with other designers and editors to craft outstanding results. This job has variety, and you will work with other designers as we tell the story of our brand.

In this role you will:

• Manage personal workflow and multiple projects Meet with team members and translate insights and objectives into concrete creative concepts
• Assist interns and mentor team members with creative solutions to complex problems
• Build high level creative solutions from concept to execution on a consistent basis
• Conduct and synthesize research to apply to creative ideas in a clear format
• Implement process-centric solutions and actively seek problems to solve
• Keen understanding of scalable design systems and brand development

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Four-year college degree or equivalent work or military experience valued
• 3-5 years of creative experience in a professional setting preferred
• Outstanding communicator. Present ideas that captivate from a deck to verbal presentations
• Skilled in creation of visual and verbal brand expression
• Deep understanding of emerging media and industry trends
• Knowledge of the production process and thrive to play any role to bring an idea to life
• Extreme eye for detail and reliable particularly under deadline pressure
• Strong creative voice and perspective
• Creatively flexible. Takes direction and feedback well. Eager to rework an existing idea or imagine something entirely new. Conceptualization, recreation of developed campaigns, and implementation of design solutions that meet brand strategies
• Detailed understanding of the creative process and cross collaborate during a project’s journey from idea to delivery
• Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite & Microsoft Office
• Experience creating mood/story boards and presentation decks to communicate high level concepts

Additional Information:

Work location will be the Oklahoma City Thunder corporate office located in downtown Oklahoma City and work schedule may include some evenings, weekends, and holidays. This is a full-time, non-exempt position reporting to the Head of Brand Identity. Employees are encouraged to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. All religious, medical, or other legally recognized exemptions regarding vaccination status will be considered.

We offer a positive office environment and a robust benefits package including excellent medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with matching funds, paid downtown parking, tuition reimbursement, employee ticket options, family gym membership subsidy, parental leave, team shop discount, and much more!