Creative Director at Manhattan Associates in Atlanta, GA

Job description

We create possibilities that move life and commerce forward Welcome to Manhattan. Every day, our supply chain commerce technology connects two billion people to 20 billion consumer choices. In the warehouse, on the road and in the store, we make what was once impossible, possible. If you want to tackle complex problems and redefine markets, you’ve come to the right place. The Opportunity Manhattan Associates is building a more visible, more distinctive, and more dominant brand. We are looking for a Creative Director to define how Manhattan looks, sounds, and feels across the moments that matter, from campaigns and digital experiences to video, print and production, customer stories, and global events. This is a builder role for a creative leader who can move fluently between big ideas and the last mile of execution. You will set the creative bar, lead a multidisciplinary team, build the operating model that helps great work move quickly, and partner with leaders across Marketing and the business to turn complex technology into clear, compelling stories and experiences. You will be equally comfortable shaping the concept, challenging the brief, giving precise feedback on a final cut, making a smart budget tradeoffs, or helping the team get a critical deliverable out the door. The work should be ambitious, useful, and unmistakably Manhattan. What you’ll do Set the creative vision and protect the brand · Define and evolve the creative expression of the Manhattan brand across internal and external touchpoints. · Maintain a high, consistent standard across visual design, motion, photography, video, presentations, environments, and customer-facing experiences. · Serve as the final creative quality gate for high-visibility work, ensuring that what reaches the market is thoughtful, coherent, and fully resolved. · Translate brand strategy and narrative into practical direction that teams, regions, agencies, and production partners can execute. · Help the brand evolve without losing its recognizability, discipline, or distinctive point of view. Turn complex ideas into meaningful creative · Partner with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Content, Communications, Digital, Events, Sales, and regional teams to develop work that advances both brand and commercial priorities. · Translate technical, product-heavy, or jargon-filled inputs into messages, stories, and experiences that people can quickly understand and care about. · Lead creative development from brief through concept, design, production, launch, and reuse. · Support a broad range of work, including display and paid media, web and landing pages, campaign systems, social, video, animation, photography, presentations, print, and experiential design. Lead the creative experience at major moments · Set the creative direction for global events, trade shows, roadshows, customer experiences, executive gatherings, and other high-visibility brand moments. · Shape the full experience, including environments, booths, stages, screens, signage, wayfinding, presentations, show flow, content capture, and post-event content reuse. · Build scalable systems that allow regional teams to express Manhattan with local relevance while maintaining a coherent global standard. · Partner with senior leaders on high-stakes presentations, internal broadcasts, company communications, and other moments where clarity and polish matter. Lead people and partners · Manage, coach, and develop a growing multidisciplinary team across design, video, operations, and production. · Create clarity around roles, expectations, quality standards, career growth, and decision rights. · Build a high-trust, low-ego creative culture where people challenge the work, not one another. · Direct a trusted network of agencies, production companies, freelancers, fabricators, and other specialists for overflow capacity and high-production-value work. · Make the team more capable over time through strong briefs, useful feedback, repeata