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***MUST HAVE EVENTS/EXPERIENTIAL EXPERIENCE***
We’re looking for an Art Director to join a team of passionate (and fun!) creatives to develop and execute cutting-edge conceptual designs and innovative visual solutions across all mediums from screen to print. This role requires experience working on and creating concepts for experiential events/activations or excitement to learn. Must have an understanding of video/motion and web. In this role, you’ll partner with creative strategists while expertly leading teams of designers and production artists to flawlessly execute cross-channel and digital work.
About you: You’re a conceptual thinker and storyteller with a strong strategic backbone who can visualize your ideas in new and inspiring ways. You get excited about bringing new concepts to life and that passion reverberates to your team. You have a strong point of view on the concept, design, product design, and art direction. When you decide to make something, you see your vision from concept to launch without any hand-holding. Maybe you’re a bit whacky and you march to the beat of a different drum. We embrace creativity in all forms. You’re a design nerd that we’d wanna grab for happy hour.
Role and Responsibilities
- Communicating visual designs, motion design, concepts, and storyboards through presentations – and getting clients to approve (and love) the recommended designs
- Hands-on art direction/design and managing designers to create
- Strong passion for the latest design trends and industry innovations in tech and entertainment
- Ability to balance multiple projects with tight deadlines and shifting priorities while inspiring and mentoring your design team
- Directly collaborating with creative strategists and the production/live events team to drive creativity and produce excellent work
- Lead and participate in brainstorming and collaborative sessions
- Provide support for onsite teams during live/virtual events
- Art Directing internal client proposals, clearly articulating creative solutions
- Support the creative department across a broad range of client initiatives
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience as a LEAD DESIGNER/ART DIRECTOR/CREATIVE LEAD
- Thrives in, and contributes to a positive, collaborative and fun work environment– people person with strong communication skills!
- College degree or relevant experience in Art Direction/Design/Advertising/or Marketing
- Self-motivated, resourceful and detail-oriented
- Experience bringing ideas to life with high-quality comps and prototypes
- Excellent hands-on design with Photoshop, Keynote/PPT, Indesign, Illustrator
- *BONUS POINTS* if you know FIGMA
- Knowledge of Keynote and Powerpoint is strongly preferred. If you don’t know it, prepare to.
- Willingness to champion for the best ideas, strongest creative and excellent client delivery
- Portfolio of work showing strong visual narratives
- Ability to interpret feedback and pivot when necessary
- Ability to clearly convey ideas through proposals, decks, and client-facing presentations
Communication skills. Art directors must be able to listen to and speak with staff and clients to ensure that they understand employees’ ideas and clients’ desires for advertisements, publications, or movie sets.
Creativity. Art directors must be able to come up with interesting and innovative ideas to develop advertising campaigns, set designs, or layout options.
Leadership skills. Art directors must be able to organize, direct, and motivate other artists. They need to articulate their visions to artists and oversee production.
Time-management skills. Balancing competing priorities and multiple projects while meeting strict deadlines is critical for art directors.
***MUST HAVE EVENTS/EXPERIENTIAL EXPERIENCE***
VIVA Creative
**TO BE CONSIDERED CANDIDATES MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE IN EVENTS/EXPERIENTIAL**
About the Creative Director position
Are you a strategic thinker who excels at developing creative solutions for some of the world’s most influential companies and organizations? If so, VIVA Creative is looking to meet you!
VIVA is currently seeking an experienced Creative Director to collaborate alongside our stellar creative team, working with Fortune 500 clients to shape and implement out of the box content for large scale events, as well as high profile strategic communications and marketing campaigns.
We’re looking for a candidate WHO:
- Knows how to put pen to paper and speak to difference audiences with a voice that resonates.
- Is a strategic thinker who can translate complex client challenges into impactful content solutions that move the needle forward for companies and their audiences.
- Enjoys the process of creative collaboration and can effectively incorporate and engage with constructive feedback.
- Has a solid Creative Strategy toolbox that includes cutting edge ideas, technologies, design thinking, speech and script writing, and a solid business acumen.
- Most of all, if you feel a huge intrinsic reward by seeing your ideas come to life while creating positive outcomes for clients, this could be the role for you.
Please include samples/portfolio of your work for the following:
- Video (where you developed the strategy, wrote the script, oversaw the execution)
- Design (where you developed the strategy, the creative approach, etc.)
- Events (where you developed the strategy, the event theme, the creative content, etc.)
- Digital (where you developed the strategy, the creative approach, etc.)
ABOUT YOU
- Moderate travel for this position.
- 7+ years of experience as a a creative director or creative strategist
- Experienced content creator for large scale events and campaigns.
- Experienced speechwriting and video script writer.
- Minimum of a BA/BS degree in Journalism, English, Communications or equivalent, Masters in marketing a PLUS.
VIVA Creative