Overview
The Senior Art Director is passionate about developing creative concepts represented by visually stunning designs that create exceptional brand experiences. They thrive in collaborative environments as part of their role in ideas development. Superior graphic design skills, managing complex tasks, and creative thinking are essential. Responsibilities include overseeing all phases of visual design, senioring projects, inspiring and mentoring creative teams, and improving the quality of deliverables.
We are looking to strengthen their design and art working team to help to develop and visualize engaging retail driven campaigns in print, digital and experiential media.
The candidate will have experience in shopper marketing and point of sale.
They need to have clear communication skills and be able to work with an art director to develop and realise concepts and ideas.
Responsibilities
Key role and responsibilities:
The creation and management of global implementation tool kits.
Clean and clear graphic design and editorial layout skills. Ability to prioritse information and make complex toolkits engaging and easy to understand.
The candidate needs to be organised and comfortable working with long and detailed documents.
The candidate will be responsible for the design and implementation of retail driven key visuals in printed and digital media.
Striking retail focused design work that is disruptive and has a clear communication focus. Strong typographic skills and the ability to story board animated frames.
Experience in animation and motion packages is a plus. (e.g. After Effects)
Translation of core key visual assets into physical instore environments.
Th candidate will have experience of 3d concepting to bring KV concepts to life in interesting and immersive ways. Experience of 3d display design and graphics is essential.
Photoshop visualising
The candidate will understand core creative concepts and immersive experiences and be able to visualize them into impactful and inspirational mockups.
Qualifications
- Proven working experience as Art Director for at least 5 years
- Have led teams and directed projects
- Management experience of a staff and mentoring junior creatives of at least 3 year
- Demonstrated ability to senior and manage multiple projects with a broad range of internal and external constituents simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about complex issues and develop fresh and effective ideas
- Must have a portfolio of professional projects that shows graphic design and conceptualization skills on 360 campaigns
- Team player with strong communication and presentation skills
- Detail-oriented
- Guide, influence, and motivate others
- Stay on top of all trends and maintain best practices
- Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lighroom, Firefly, Figma, Office Suite, Keynote
