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Group Creative Director

Best Buy
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
    21 days ago

    Job Description

    The Group Creative Director is a senior creative leader responsible for shaping and delivering the brand's creative vision across all channels. With a strong background in art direction or design, this role leads the development of integrated, high-impact marketing campaigns that elevate brand expression and drive engagement. This leader manages and mentors a team of writers and art directors while partnering cross-functionally to align creative strategies with business priorities. This role ensures all creative output reflects the brand's standards of excellence and evolves to meet the needs of a dynamic retail environment.

    This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

    What you'll do
    • Define and lead the overall creative direction and brand narrative
    • Translate brand strategy into compelling, integrated creative executions
    • Continuously evolve and elevate the brand's visual and storytelling expression
    • Lead, inspire, and develop a team of writers and art directors while providing clear creative direction, constructive feedback, and career mentorship
    • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns across all media channels (digital, social, print, in-store, etc.)
    • Ensure consistency, quality, and craft across every brand touchpoint
    • Balance creativity with business objectives and performance goals
    • Uphold and enforce brand standards to ensure a consistent and cohesive identity
    • Maintain a high bar for creative excellence across all deliverables
    • Partner with internal stakeholders (marketing, merchandising, strategy, etc.) to align priorities
    • Leverage creativity as a force multiplier to support broader business goals
    • Champion the use of customer insights to inform creative decisions
    • Stay current on retail trends, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape
    • Apply business acumen to ensure creative work supports company performance

    Basic qualifications
    • 10+ years of experience in creative roles, with a strong foundation in art direction or design
    • 5+ years of leadership experience, including managing and devel

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMinneapolis, Minnesota
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1966
    Websitehttp://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/

    About Company

    Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

    That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

    You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

    Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

    When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

    So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

    Skills

    • Art Directionunmatched
    • Brand Strategyunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Customer/Consumer Behaviorunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Market Trend Analysisunmatched
    • Marketingunmatched
    • Marketing Campaignunmatched
    • Media Campaignsunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Merchandisingunmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Storytellingunmatched
    • Work From Homeunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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