We are looking for a senior art director, to engage, inspire and guide the team and the clients whom we work with. A natural collaborator who loves to mentor and collaborate with others. Create innovative ideas and integrated creative solutions in close collaboration with your account, strategy and creative peers — often for real assignments and new business pitches, occasionally, proactively, to help grow our business, reputation and competency.
We do need you to be a constant stream of innovation, story tell brand propositions with relevant consumer centric approach, develop consumer activities that excite others. You are responsible for presenting and selling the work to senior clients. You will lead and execute creative development and strategy, storytelling concepts, and establish the direction of the overall creative being developed for various projects. You carry a professional temperament and gravitas; are a passionate and magnetic presenter and a champion of people and agency initiatives.
Candidates with less experience will be considered for an Art Director position.
Responsibilities:
- Help lead and inspire creative teams to develop innovative design solutions, from broad concept development through implementation
- Bring to life, through inspiring visuals, the concept and execution of integrated cross-channel initiatives – including large web initiatives, user experiences, online advertising & digital marketing.
- Understand the needs, motivations, and aspirations of your audiences, so that you can interact with them in the most effective, compelling, and engaging way possible.
- Art direct with strong visual ideation and ability to design in a variety of styles for different channels and media— be able to craft compelling and on brand visuals, as well as effective key visuals, ads, communication designs and moving images.
- Manage, craft and guarantee the quality of the concept development and execution in response to feedback from the internal team or clients; overseeing campaigns through the production stage to completion.
- Work with the team to deliver high-quality, scalable, creative and design solutions, bringing together brand strategy, business goals and user insight, to bring to life beautifully crafted and impactful executions.
- Distill complex creative concepts into understandable design solutions, and clearly rationalise strategic thinking to stakeholders, with the ability to solve complex design and communication issues.
- Leverage and optimise relevant resources, and ensure that projects stay on brief.
- Ideate, write and execute original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives or goals
- Is responsible for the proper placement, context and meaning of visual elements to copy within a creative assignment
- Extend client relationships to partnerships and explore new ways to deliver value
- Develop creative ideas that meets both our clients’ objectives as well as our business objectives, maintaining the company’s expected levels of creative excellence and professionalism
- Present, share and review creative work with Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team
- Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
- Collaborate effectively with Account Management, Planning and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic work
- Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
- Participants in, and leads brainstorming sessions
- Have brave ideas that make an impact, big or small, on the world we live in
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit, openness and willingness to try new things
- You will report into a Creative Director-level and above