Job description
Timing: JulyDuration: Ongoing full-time
Hours per week: 40+
Location: Sylvania, OH (flexible hybrid schedule, onsite 3 days/week)
Salary: $65-90K DOE
One of our small agency clients is looking for an Art Director to join their team for an exciting full-time role.
This Art Director will be part of the agency's creative team and someone who can work through projects from initial concept development through to execution/production, bringing a strong track record of delivering innovative, creative solutions on time, within budget, and of the highest quality.
The Art Director must be strategic, design-savvy, and have the ability to stretch both the agency and clients' thinking while creating award-winning work; must have exceptional creative conceptual ability, strong communication, and the ability to juggle multiple ongoing projects.
Ideal Art Director candidates will have:
- At least 3-6+ years of agency or in-house art direction experience
- BA degree in graphic design or relevant field
- Strong online portfolio showcasing exceptional conceptual and design skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Superior attention to detail
- Experience in dealing directly with clients
- Problem solver with proven history of dealing with unexpected challenges
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Experience developing social and digital campaigns
- Ability to work within the agency's culture and a team environment
- Fully proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and familiar with Microsoft 365 including PowerPoint, Word, etc.
Nice to have:
- Video production and web/digital design skills
Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute unique design interpretations and conceptually develop a full range of communication tools including: logos, collateral, advertising, direct mail, retail displays and digital marketing campaigns
- Think beyond design; understand our clients’ business strategy and conceptually brainstorm and develop new ideas to help set them apart
- Collaboratively lead the design and execution of a full range of communication tools aligned with the senior creative team’s vision
- Strong client-facing communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, ability to articulate design
- Ability to work independently while aligning to existing brand guidelines, templated designs and/or creative direction
- Act as creative support on several clients, managing your projects and seeing them through to final art
- Properly package and translate final files for print and digital to go into production while following vendor guidelines closely
- Manage deadlines and workload to ensure projects are delivered on-time and within the allotted budget
*Onsite only (flexible hybrid schedule, onsite 3 days/week)
**Full benefits included
***Occasional travel required to client and/or offsite meetings (10%)
Expired job