Group Creative Director

Best Buy

Minneapolis, Minnesota
30+ days ago

Highlights

This leader manages and mentors a team of writers and art directors while partnering cross-functionally to align creative strategies with business priorities. 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.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Industry	Retail
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1966
Website	http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/

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

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.