UNITED COLLECTIVE

CANVAS United is a fast-growing, award-winning, mid-sized, bi-coastal, full-service creative digital agency based in New York City and Southern California. We are an independent creative collective for the brands of the future. With the sole purpose of helping clients grow with a more creatively driven, digitally led and culturally attuned approach to marketing. Being independent and part of a larger collective of creative agencies (UNITED COLLECTIVE) has allowed us to evolve from design & build into delivering immersive digital experiences. We have years of experience working with iconic brands and institutions such as Hoka, got milk?, Xfinity Comcast, MTV, Crunch Fitness, Beekman Hotel, Parker Palm Springs, Showtime, Howard Hughes, Marc Jacobs, Estee Lauder to name a few.

About the Role:

Enough about us, it’s YOU we’re excited about. We’re looking for a passionate, detail-oriented, and collaborative Art Director to join our creative team. The ideal candidate is well versed in both visual design and conceptual campaign initiatives and is a power-house executor— going above and beyond to ensure all work is delivered with a keen eye for detailing and innovation. You will work alongside our Creative Director, digital content team, designers, and copywriters to concept award-winning digital initiatives for integrated campaigns, web, and social. This role will be based in our NY office (FiDi).

About you:

• Confident and versatile people leader, excited to design, train, and implement best practices for a team to achieve consistency, and ultimately – client success
• A strategic, creative thinker with robust experience in the digital marketing space
• Able to navigate client ambiguity and business challenges to find data-driven, strategic creative solutions where there is no obvious path
• In pursuit of personal growth and challenge, and have a track record of doing the same with how you guide your creative teams and the clients at large
• Able to traverse complex workstreams, with an eye for detail, and vision for the bigger picture
• Champion of the creative work and the people executing it
• A direct source of guidance and leadership in the department

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ideating and designing for client projects and new business initiatives, including marketing campaigns, social activation content, and digital web/app experiences
• Providing clear and concise direction, with hands-on guidance to junior designers and production to elevate creative work
• Creating a comprehensive visual language for multi platform campaigns
• Research comparative/competitive examples on any given initiative
• Manage a small team of designers and content creators
• Foster ongoing improvements to creative processes and methodologies
• Inspire and empower others to solve business problems with creative, ensuring scalability and sustainability

• Minimum 6+ years industry experience
• Must have familiarity with video production process
• Must have a strong grasp on social platforms and trends
• Must be able to work with creative people in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Must be comfortable presenting work internally and externally with senior-level clients
• Strong ability to organize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong digital portfolio (websites, campaigns, interactive and mobile experiences)
• Strong typography skills
• Ideally has worked on both integrated campaigns and product websites
• Programs: Figma and core Adobe Suite programs like photoshop etc.

Bonus:

• Animation/motion design experience
• Strong UX/Interaction design sensibility
• Brand Identity Design Experience
• Ability to develop design systems in Figma
• Knowledge of CSS and HTML

*Salary Range: $90k – $120k

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

*Actual offer may vary by market location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience.

UNITED COLLECTIVE