As a Senior Art Director on the Interactive team, you will work in collaboration with other creative and technical disciplines to create considered and elegant customer experiences and communications to exist within our partners digital channels or ecosystems.
The ideal candidate possesses strong communication and presentation skills, an impeccable design aesthetic, experience leading a team of designers, the ability to encourage positive collaboration with multi-disciplinary partners, a deep understanding of user experience concepts, style guides, systematic design rationale, and an extraordinary attention to detail.
Key Qualifications
- You have at least 10 years of design and art direction experience with an expert ability to develop innovative creative work.
- You have expertise coming up with creative solutions for a variety of experiences, including advertising, marketing, branding, and digital platforms.
- You possess excellent design and conceptual skills accompanied by the ability to guide and evaluate and redirect creative development when necessary.
- You are naturally curious and passionate about design — with a keen awareness of the evolving landscape of tools, technologies, resources, and trends.
- You are a motivated and driven art director that collaborates well with a team to find solutions to complex problems.
- You're a strong communicator with phenomenal presentation skills and are able to articulate ideas with clarity, engage in healthy debate, and accept directional feedback. Must be able to communicate effectively both up and down a creative organization.
- You have in depth knowledge of the creative development process, including effectively and efficiently staffing projects, providing timely and helpful feedback to improve creative solutions, and producing work on schedule. Must be able to effectively lead junior creative staff members, vendors, freelancers, and photographers as needed.
- Good organization skills to file work in a manner that can be shared with the team.
- Excellent skills with design software, including Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch. Experience with motion and 3D software is a plus.
Description
- Brainstorms, coordinates, and collaborates frequently in order to bring to life the key elements of design and art direction.
- Inspires the team to pursue new creative solutions while also being directly involved with the process.
- Leads the successful creation and production of design solutions, follows briefs and creative direction.
- Collaborate with ACDs, and the larger project team to explore concepts and iterate on design solutions. Anticipate and solve for potential challenges, as well as existing conditions.
- Plans and directs aspects of assigned projects to deliver superior design in accordance with project constraints and parameters.
- Delivers persuasive creative presentations to executive staff members.
- Dives deep into the details but also guide the work towards bigger-picture objectives.
- Multi-tasks on design projects that require both conceptual and functional thinking with a tireless work ethic.
- Reacts quickly to new information, opinions, and direction to strategically pivot when necessary.
- Provides thoughtful guidance to junior creative staff, with an eye on mentorship and knowledge growth.
- Executes high-quality design work on assigned projects. Regularly reviews creative work with the group’s senior creative staff to get feedback on direction, and to ensure the work is aligned with other activities in the group.
- Relied upon to conceive of, design, and lead the development of high-quality creative work that pushes the brand forward.
Education
- Preferred: BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent).
