Job description
Our global agency client has an immediate need for a remote freelance Senior Art Director. This will be completely remote, 40 hours per week, through August (with potential to extend).Title: Art Director (REMOTE)
Schedule: FULLY REMOTE (40 hours/week)
Pay: $35-$43/hour
Type: Freelance
Duration: At least 2-3 months w/ strong possibility to extend
This person will work across digital and print! Shopper Marketing experience is required!
Responsibilities
- Attend project kick-off meetings with senior creative team members, account, strategy, and project management
- Take notes based on creative brief discussed
- Ask clarifying questions to understand the assignment and any specific creative requests
- Confirm role on the project
- Participate in creative brainstorms
- Provide input on concepting the ideas based on knowledge of current trends, pop culture, and current and past design themes
- Bring own original ideas to the meeting and share with team
- Build upon other participants’ ideas
- Constructively critique ideas discussed
- Partner with a copywriter to design and create agreed upon concept per brainstorm meeting
- Create designs based on strategy, target audience, brand, brand guidelines and retailer
- Design logos and sketch out ideas or layouts
- Search for photos to be used in the design
- Identify the correct font and imagery that works best with the idea
- Use color appropriately to facilitate the idea or direct the eye
- Work within the industry standards and follow company procedures and protocol
- Present work to the senior creative team members
- Further explore and/or revise concept per creative lead’s direction
- Interpret feedback and adjust design accordingly
- Ensure the design is on strategy
- Prepare and package files for transfer to the next phase (i.e. transitioning a file to the studio)
- Follow specified guidelines to store files properly
- Ensure files are properly labeled and placed in the correct folder on corresponding server
- Shopper Marketing experience required; CPG experience is great
- 2-5 years of experience as an art director, preferably in an agency or in-house creative department
- Proficient in Adobe Create Suite applications
- Basic understanding of advertising and marketing principles
- Functional knowledge of typography, layout and design principles
- Knowledge of current trends, pop culture, current and past design themes
- Able to communicate clearly, thoroughly and succinctly both verbally and in writing; can clearly articulate an idea and the reason(s) behind a specific creative direction
- Able to accept constructive feedback and apply in work
- Current knowledge and understanding of where and how people interact with media, including at home, on the go, while shopping, mobile, broadcast, print, event, etc.
- Collaborates well with others, demonstrated by partnering with other creatives to successfully brainstorm and concept ideas
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