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Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services (FAS) Marketing team is looking for a new Multimedia Lead to guide a team that will craft compelling stories for Financial Advisors, showcasing our thought leadership, investment products, and financial planning tools that assist advisors in managing their clients' investments through video and motion design. As consumer consumption of media shifts more and more to short form video content and animation, you’ll lead the team through development of a clear strategy and vision to ensure we are well prepared to evolve alongside our clients.
In this newly created role, you’ll lead a team of multimedia strategists, helping to build a best in class multimedia function to support the ever growing demand. The team does everything from creating and editing new videos, to animating charts and graphs, to shooting new video at events or our in house studio, where we host webinars and shoot custom content. As the team grows, you’ll help us think through the right structure and role definition as we scale.
This role:
- Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
- Organizes and facilitates brainstorming sessions and critiques to drive content, design, and presentation solutions. Collaborates with internal clients to determine creative tools and solutions, ensure appropriate staffing, and provide support and guidance each step of the process. Leads external vendor strategy for creative services.
- Sets measurable goals to increase efficiency, performance, and quality of team output. Quantifies and reviews team efficiency by analyzing data and researches root cause of any issues. Audits crew and team work for quality control. Identifies opportunities to revise or dispose of obsolete or inefficient processes and practices.
- Provides status updates to the business regarding various creative services projects and processes. Partners with senior leaders to prioritize projects, accommodate workload changes, and resolve highly complex creative services issues.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
What it takes:
- Minimum of five years related work experience, with at least two years of design, advertising, or communications experience.
- Experience facilitating creative brainstorming sessions and critiques to drive content, design, and presentation solutions.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graphic Design or other creative arts degree preferred. Graduate degree preferred.
- Previous experience hiring, evaluating, and leading others is highly preferred.
This role is part of our hybrid work model with Tuesdays – Thursdays required in our offices to foster collaboration and relationships. On Mondays and Fridays, our crew will have the option to work remotely, or continue working from our offices in Malvern, PA.
At Vanguard, we're different by design. Since our founding in 1975, we set out to take a stand for our investors. To create a company that puts them at the center of what we do and inspire our crew to work on their behalf. We transformed an industry, and we're still on a mission. Imagine your future here.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Vanguard’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse—one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.
Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress—from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.
Together, we’re on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care—for our clients, our communities, and each other.
Vanguard’s DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
