Senior Art Director

Senior Art Director

As a Senior Art Director, you are an emotionally intelligent storyteller who thoughtfully brings attention-grabbing concepts to life with your toolbox of various visual mediums. Your day-to-day involves generating ideas, developing concepts, and determining the look and feel for brand communications. As an active collaborator, you'll work with peers to build work that gets noticed and inspire clients to brave new visual paths through artfully crafted pitches.

Skills Required:

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Primarily: Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign)(Secondarily: Cinema 4D, SketchUp, Sketch, InVision, Figma, XD, Animate, After Effects, Lightroom, Bridge and Premiere)
• Ability to generate ideas and concepts
• Knowledge of photography and video production
• Strong sense of typography, color theory, and composition
• Knowledge of print, broadcast, and digital communications
• Attention to detail and visual precision
• Ability and willingness to stay on top of current trends, industry knowledge, and develop new skills
• Openness to receive and incorporate feedback into work
• Ability to confidently provide direction to partners and teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to take direction and prioritize while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with copywriters to generate a volume of ideas and concepts
• Develop and maintain the visual look of a project or campaign ensuring the work is consistent, distinct, appropriate, engaging, and that communication is clear
• Lead the collaborative visual development of projects and campaigns by guiding teams, producers, and partners with a clear direction from start to finish
• Maintain awareness of trends in culture and industry producing new thinking and looks for clients and the agency
• Research and understand client's needs, brand, products, audience, and competition
• Minimize subjectivity by developing creative strategies to sell ideas and concepts
• Find, recommend, and select vendor partners (e.g. photographers, retouchers, video production houses, editors, sound mixers and illustrators, etc.)
• Development of shot lists, treatments, and visions for capture
• Strong ability to present visions and plans with producers, partners, and clients
• Direct photo and video shoots ensuring the vision is met and the shotlist is captured
• Selection of image assets post-capture providing retouch direction to partners and presenting for approval with account to clients
• Building positive working relationships with all team members, vendors, and clients
• Inspire and motivate teams to create their best work; promote the environment for creativity to flourish
• Provide clear, timely, and helpful feedback to improve creative output and processes, keeping work on budget and schedule
• Articulate vision, ideas, and concepts to peers and clients — listening and reacting to feedback appropriately