Art Director
Get Inclusive is a rapidly growing online training product company that educates the students, employees, and faculty of over 200 colleges and universities. Our vision is to tap into all of the richness of being human to help our customers foster workplace environments so that they can build stronger, healthier, and more inclusive organizations. Our mission is to help organizations train their people to become empowered leaders and allies who look out for one another.
Our team is a rare blend of content creators and technologists. We have won industry awards for our work in prevention and compliance training, and have delivered a platform that enables large campuses to effectively deploy and measure wide-scale training initiatives.
The company is at a prime growth stage and is looking for an art director to drive the creation of innovative, fully-integrated ideas and assets across a variety of educational subject areas. The ideal candidate has a strong passion for visual communications and is a master at solving business needs in a fast-paced, creative environment.
The art director will collaborate with the product manager, sales/marketing director, instructional designers, copywriters, and designers to design, propose, and implement creative projects to meet business needs across both product and sales and marketing channels.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Deliver original creative concepts to meet business and educational objectives
- Set up, manage, and evolve the visual design function within a rapidly-growing product team
- Work cross-functionally to understand business needs and collaborate with stakeholders
- Develop engaging creative concepts and have the design skills to bring them to life
- Drive the creation of multiple media types, including web page layouts, infographics, interactive features, and video and motion graphics
- Manage the work of remote resources, including freelance visual designers, illustrators, and interaction designers
- The flexibility to work as part of a team one day, independently the next–you adapt to new ideas, processes, and problems with ease and enthusiasm
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 5+ years experience with online education, preferably as art director; or as a senior visual designer
- Design/art direction experience across channels (web pages, infographics, motion graphics/video, digital marketing, etc.)
- Able to ideate concepts, but also have the design skills to execute
- Great attention to detail, excellent art direction and graphic design sensibility
- Think and act both strategically and tactically
- Self-starter that understands how to be proactive
- Experience working at fast-paced organizations in growth mode
- Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud applications
- After Effects and motion graphics skills a plus
- Must have an online portfolio
