I believe that a company would look for creativity while seeking for a multimedia artist, because then they can have more ways to expand the company by attracting people with the art, and maybe also because then they would have lots of ideas, making a wide variety of things helpful to the company.
(Sorry for my broken english, I am spanish so I don't really write it well.)
The context of this sculpture is important, because it is actually based off of a goddess name Nike; hence the name. Nike of Samothrace was created to honor the goddess Nike and commemorate a sea battle.