Senior Art Director

The Senior Art Director owns the visual direction and execution of storytelling assets and content collections, and partners with the Editor/Writer on content pieces to collaboratively bring content to life across the digital, social, and print space. This position will serve as a visual lead, team ideator, and subject matter expert internally and externally for all creative assets produced for marketing-driven projects, campaigns, and/or ongoing programs. This role will have experience using a combination of talent and skill to shape high-quality assets (amazing ideas, expertly crafted from a visual tone, topic/theme, search, accuracy, and clarity perspective). This role is accountable to the Associate Creative Director.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Create (and review others in creating) audience-centric assets, inclusive of articles, graphics, infographics, video scripts, social media content, etc. for all channels –digital, social, and print
Art direction and execution of illustrations, photo shoots and video shoots, both externally and in-house productions
Create original content to adhere to client’s brand; understand and enforce the brand guidelines for assigned work
Active participation in brainstorming and ideation
Facilitate both internal and client-facing presentations
Manage and mentor Art Directors and Designers to ensure that their work on brand and on strategy
Manage and direct freelancers
Inform hour estimates to the Associate Creative Director
Collaborate and share ideas and best practices with peers across the organization
Creation and ownership of the creative slides in PowerPoint as a part of larger presentation decks
Strong collaboration with editorial team members
Consistent engagement with the workflow tool

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Other duties as assigned

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

BFA in Graphic Design or related degree

Experience:

5-7 years in a design related field; agency experience preferred

Skills:

Demonstrate leadership skills; Experience in a management role
Experience directing photo and video shoots
An understanding and advocate of the print production process and the video/photo shoot process, including the three bid process and necessary steps for outside vendors
Active participation in brainstorming and ideation
Ability to present 'the strategic why' behind the creative and articulate the solve
Solid grasp of web design principles and an understanding of front-end web technologies
Knowledge of the digital, social, video shoot, and print production processes
Ability to self-manage time and meet expected deadlines, completing work on time and within the hours allocated
Proficient in: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, PowerPoint
Knowledge of the CMS systems and workflow tool
Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced atmosphere with minimal supervision