Junior Art Director

About Creative at The Escape Pod:

Creatives at The Escape Pod are experts at challenging comfortable — concepting, presenting, and executing ideas that are timely, rooted in insights, and thoughtful in craft. We help brands move beyond the ‘sea of sameness’ in ownable and authentic ways. We design, write, and produce creative across every medium to break through in culture, escaping the status quo. If that sounds exciting to you, then we’d love to talk to you about this opportunity on our team.

Job Overview:

The Escape Pod is looking for a Junior Art Director who is passionate about ideas, and persuasive in selling their ideas to others. Someone who is eager to collaborate, ideate and build things that don’t exist yet.

What You’ll Do:

• Concept, develop and create engaging designs that drive client goals
• Design for and produce work for a range of online and offline mediums—OLV, TV, apps, websites, landing pages, emails, social media
• Prove understanding of your client’s brand visual voice when creating ideas and content
• Stay current on all existing, new, and emerging technologies that relate to digital marketing, mobile, social media, and cultural trends
• Package ideas in a clear, logical and persuasive manner
• Present work internally and to clients
• Own a project from conception through completion
• You will lead projects and also work as part of a team in large or small groups in a collaborative fashion
• You will be proactive in bringing ideas to the table that are above and beyond the ask
• Take direction from CDs and continue to learn
• Be a part of new business pitches

What You’ll Bring:

• Minimum of 1 years experience
• Portfolio of your work
• Mastery in most Adobe Creative Suite applications
• Strong communication skills
• Strong conceptual skills with the ability to create 360 campaigns
• Good client presentation skills and a knowledge of how the work addresses the client challenge
• A clear understanding of a creative brief and its role in the creative process
• A great eye for design and desire to take on new challenges, grow and learn every day
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a larger team in a fast-paced environment

About The Escape Pod:

At the Escape Pod, we don’t claim to do a million things just OK. We do four things brilliantly: Strategy, Creative, Production, and Partnership. We help clients escape from predictable to, well, not. We help clients escape from the crowded space to the white space. We help clients escape the old school notion of ‘bossy agencies’ to a world of empathetic partnership. We’re a 2-time winner of AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Award and in 2022 were the the first agency ever to host the Small Agency Conference and Awards in our office.

Additional Information:

The Escape Pod is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities or any other protected basis because we believe the best and brightest come from all walks of life. We aspire to foster a community in which diversity is valued in both our employees and our ideas.

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