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JOB SUMMARY: As a full-time Art Director on the Firestone Walker Brand Design team, you’ll lead the strategic development and execution of multichannel creative initiatives for 805 beer ad campaigns (including, but not limited to), social/digital, packaging, film, retail, experiential, product branding, and marketing projects from start to finish. You’re a conceptual problem solver and design leader with fluency in creating visual concepts and storytelling to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and engage with consumers. You will own the creative process and visual ID for key brand categories working with the Head of Creative, marketing partners, and external creative teams to develop innovative creative material for 805 beer products and marketing campaigns.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

Specifically, the responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

• Develop world class creative and produce 360 multi-channel campaigns that get results
• Gather cross functional alignment and sell-in concepts to leadership
• Oversee production and execution of all creative aspects in collaboration with production teams and external partners across all formats and deliverables
• Develop and execute design projects across all channels
• Direct and manage photoshoots, video and film productions
• Contribute to elevating and advancing the overall 805 aesthetic that meets band guidelines
• Cross-functional relationship building and partnership to ensure strategic progression, improvement and consistency
• Translate product positioning, data, and marketing strategies into strategic ideas and design solutions
• Maintain creative experience for digital and CRM to ensure creative alignment, usability, engagement, and growth
• Stay up-to-date on cultural and design trends as well as potential creative partners who are pushing the look and capabilities of what’s current
• Cultivate team growth through mentorship and leading by example
• Collaborate with all team members to ensure progression, improvement and consistency
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 6+ years in a marketing or related field
• Proven track record in creating world class creative campaigns
• Highly collaborative approach, with experience in a fast-paced and cross-functional focused environment
• Strong ability to strategically include outside functional expertise and performance data into your creative solutions
• Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite with focus on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, and a familiarity with and understanding of video editing
• Experience leading photo shoots, video shoots, and all associated pre-production components
• Experience managing and delivering multiple projects in parallel
• Hands-on creative who is willing to make as well as lead projects
• Finger on the pulse of current design and youth culture trends including graphic and motion design, photography, music, sports, art, and fashion
• Must be driven to bring big ideas to life and passionate for the brand

What Firestone Walker Offers

• Competitive pay rate for an experienced individual with the right skills
• An excellent benefits package including:
• 100% paid premiums for employee including medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Accrued PTO (rate of 13 days per year)
• Accrued Sick Leave (1 hour for every 30 hours worked)
• 401(k) retirement plan including company paid profit sharing & 4% matching
• 9 paid holidays per year

Please submit your cover letter and resume with your work experience when applying. Firestone Walker is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company

Clutch Creative is a rapidly growing staffing agency. We support our clients by identifying unreachable talent that helps their businesses grow.

Our candidates work with us because they know we have the best opportunities available to them and will help them navigate their next career move.

We care, we’re honest, and we hustle—that’s what makes us Clutch.

Clutch is looking for a Art Director for an agency client of ours. The ideal candidate will be responsible for understanding the goals of clients and be able to oversee project strategy to project completion. By having a knowledge of emerging technologies in the area, this candidate will be able create cross-channel deliverables to clients that meet their needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with clients and project teams to understand client objectives and project design
• Develop and present creative projects that support agreed upon goals and strategy
• Create cross-channel visual communication strategies (digital, print, and motion)
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies
• Attention to detail: typography, color, design excellence
• Committed to understanding user personas, industry nuances, trends and marketing techniques

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in visual communications
• 5+ years’ of digital and print design or advertising experience
• Breadth of style and design capability

Clutch

Our client, a global broadcast media and entertainment company, is actively looking for an Art Director to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

This role requires candidates be in the office Tuesday-Thursday so local candidates are required.

***This is a 3 month initial contract with the opportunity to extend or convert***

This Art Director will be responsible for leading art direction across multiple games and digital content in the company’s portfolio. The ideal candidate will have direct experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped products-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops.

Responsibilities

• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfills team, studio, and company goals
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• 7+ years of experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product-ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Experience shipping multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UX/UI and technical art challenges
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in game concept prototypes
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Motion Recruitment

About the Role:

• The Creative Director will share responsibility of managing multiple creative teams, and effectively driving the creative disciplines of the agency.

About you:

• 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.
• Confident and versatile people leader, excited to design, train, and implement best practices for a team to achieve consistency, and ultimately – client success.
• 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.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and manage a large creative team, composed of roles across Art & Copy disciplines.
• Provide hands-on guidance to elevate creative work.
• Foster ongoing improvements to creative processes and methodologies.
• Partner with the Head of Creative to build and continually improve the creative department to be in line with the company vision.
• Motivate clients to embrace and pursue work which is impactful beyond initial request/goals.
• Inspire and empower others to solve business problems with creative, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
• Contribute to new business pitches and large-scale production efforts.
• Bring outside influence to WITHIN, and encourage us to think beyond the expected

Requirements

• Must have extensive knowledge in Social & Digital-first creative
• Strong art background
• Expertise in work with Adobe suite
• Working knowledge of post-production
• Ability to conceptualize and execute conversion-yielding creative
• Up-to-date knowledge of successful creative trends and tactics to appease diverse KPIs, from awareness to acquisition.
• Ability to diagnose shortfalls in Clients’ existing creative campaigns or brand at large
• Senior experience in a Social/Digital first shop with demonstrated leadership
• Ability to prompt and promote collaboration; both inter departmental and with clientele
• Proven ability to foster new and additional growth to existing client relationships
• Confidence in working in a fast-paced cutting edge digital environment
• Ability to attract and retain top industry creative talent
• Compelling presenter, wanted by teams to be involved for important client and pitch opportunities

Benefits

About Us:

We are Performance Branding experts, working with scalable and enterprise brands including Nike, The North Face, Vans, and Proximo Spirits. We leverage digital channels and creative to grow our clients. Data drives our decision making and enables us to operate like trusted business partners. WITHIN works with brands to collapse the funnel between performance and brand marketing unifying objectives, targets, strategy, and implementation. Partnered with a brand’s value proposition, our integrated media and personalized content solutions prioritize profits and growth over channel optimization, taking a holistic approach to marketing programs, and training our people across every channel. We use the best technology available along with proprietary tools delivering the best performance for our clients.

Everyone at WITHIN wants to grow and be challenged. It’s a collaborative place made up of small, closely knit and versatile teams that are fast and adaptive to solve problems and build systems.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits based on ability level including:

• Base salary DOE ($96,000-$500,000)
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly Phone Stipend
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
• Dog friendly office
• Hybrid work opportunity

WITHIN

OVERVIEW:

Ten Thousand is looking for an innovative Creative Director to join our Brand Marketing team. The ideal candidate is a proven creative leader, technical designer and gifted communicator. Reporting into our SVP of Brand, you’ll be responsible for bringing a strategic lens to creative output, evolving the brand look/feel, producing engaging content and leading the creative department with vision and structure. We’re looking for someone who brings an elevated aesthetic and nuanced understanding of the training/fitness industry. You are fluent in designing everything from TikTok ads to brick-and-mortar fixture displays. With this role, you’ll be joining a fast growing company at an early stage and will have the opportunity to make a major impact on the business. 

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build the Ten Thousand brand into a household name with deep relevance and authenticity.
• Manage a team across graphic/site design, copywriting, content production and editing. Help prioritize their work and lead the team from ideation to delivery. 
• Act as the internal creative agency to develop and execute on-brand and differentiated campaigns across email, site design, paid advertising, social content, product graphics, packaging, with event and retail signage support. Output should support target CPAs, CTR, and CVR.   
• Lead frontend UX/UI strategy and design on site. Develop best-in-class brand experience while pushing CVR and AOV. 
• Build strategy and vision around organic and paid content that is optimized for high engagement and CTR respectively while remaining on-brand.   
• Ideate, establish, and reinforce consistent brand narrative and design systems across all platforms via creation of Brand Book and Style Guide. 
• Establish clear communication structure across your internal Creative team, as well as Marketing, Partnership, Product Merch and Executive teams, and clearly articulate workflow needs with the proper advanced timing to anticipate needs.
• Identify gaps in our capabilities — when we need to build and when we need to source specialists.
• Oversee the Creative and Production budget.
• Lead, develop and inspire the Creative department with best practices and an ownership mentality. 
• Recruit new creative talent when needed and nurture growth and development of the current team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of agency or internal creative team experience.
• Proven track record as a Creative Director or similar role and responsibilities.
• 2+ years of management experience of designers, copywriters, producers and editors. 
• Hands-on experience in creative process, marketing, graphic design, site design and brand development.
• Strong conceptual and aesthetic skills (color, illustration, typography, logo design, layout); retouching; knowledge of print, OOH, and social media/digital delivery.
• Possess deep knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite – master of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, etc.
• Experience with Figma, Sketch, and C4D is a bonus.
• Advanced listening, verbal and written communication skills, including experience in creating, writing, researching, and managing content in multiple formats.
• Strong knowledge of and connection to athletic, lifestyle, and culturally relevant individuals and brands.
• Outside-of-the-box thinker who takes initiative and thrives in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Highly organized with good project management skills. Able to juggle competing priorities.
• Ability to build productive relationships at all levels throughout an organization, and cross functionally.
• Independent, entrepreneurial, passionate self-starter with a focus on delivery of excellence, a GSD attitude and a sense of urgency.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Humility and eagerness to learn and grow.
• Salary range is dependent of years of experience and skills and ranges between $120,000-$175,000
• This position is based in FiDi in NYC and must be open to being in office 4 days a week minimum. 

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary 
• Stock options
• Benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Unlimited PTO
• Complimentary gear
• Free office consumables 
• $50 month+tax/fees Life Time Fitness Membership (orig. $250 value)

ABOUT TEN THOUSAND

Starting with the world’s best training shorts, Ten Thousand is building the go-to men’s performance apparel brand for the functional fitness movement. Each Ten Thousand product features premium performance fabrics, an elevated aesthetic, and thoughtful fit and feature options.

Since launching, Ten Thousand has been featured in GQ, Esquire, Gear Patrol, Men’s Health, and other leading lifestyle and fitness outlets, and we’ve developed partnerships with other industry-leading brands including Equinox and SoulCycle.

With funding from leading consumer VCs and e-commerce leaders, we’re well on our way to becoming the go-to training brand for men. Learn more on Instagram or at www.tenthousand.cc

Ten Thousand, Inc.

Cogs & Marvel, an award winning experiential agency, seeks an Art Director with a passion for design to join our growing team of creative talent. This role reports to the Creative Director in our San Francisco office, aligning on company goals and vision to push our work into new and constantly innovative directions. We’re looking for an exceptional visual storyteller who understands the power of narrative, live, and digital experience design.

Paramount in this role is an artistic design eye with multidisciplinary creative thinking. You should be comfortable ideating with your team and stakeholders to come up with fresh, conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details. What matters most is that you start with a story and imagine ways to bring that spirit to life in the most compelling way, across physical, digital, video—or all three. Cogs and Marvel is agnostic in terms of platforms and media. Our stories go where their audience lives, and we don’t constrain how an experience might express itself.

Headquartered in Ireland, our agency grew alongside the tech boom in Dublin, producing the biggest global activations for Google, Facebook, Twitter and other luminary companies. Now, with offices in San Francisco and London, we are growing our team and our capabilities, with an eye toward serving retailers, luxury and consumer lifestyle brands, arts organizations, and more. Help us visualize our dreams and turn artful ideas into extraordinary activations.

What you’ll do

• Ideate within a team to come up with fresh, immersive conceptual content, from the big idea to the supporting details
• Apply design thinking to live environments through brand activations, wayfinding, signage and other dimensional deliverables
• Bring concepts to life with key visuals (from sketches to 3D)
• Concept and design ideas for a range of demographic audiences, tailoring aesthetics with subtle nuances accordingly
• Lead projects, working with a team of artists and designers to bring original concepts to life
• Present and sell the work to clients with confidence
• Visually communicate original ideas that catch attention and pack an emotional punch
• Build decks that sell the idea through research, moodboards, cultural context, and effects
• Articulate the work’s meaning and resonance, from a cultural perspective
• Conceive ideas that deliver on specific strategic goals
• Oversee creative projects from ideation through execution, with an eye toward detail, quality and seamless production
• Demonstrate aesthetic that reflects a fluency with popular cultural references, but also stands out for its unique perspective

The ideal candidate should have

• Minimum five years of professional experience in design with a broad knowledge of branding, environmental, print, video, and digital, with at least two years working in a comparable position
• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual and design work
• Experience managing junior designers
• A strong foundation in design and typography (Experience with motion design, 3D, illustration, or packaging would be a plus)
• Must have a Design degree or work experience equivalent
• Demonstrable taste level in aesthetic approach
• Exceptional communication skills and confidence working within a multidisciplinary creative team
• Experience presenting concepts to team and external stakeholders
• General understanding of physical and spatial design
• A collaborative, diplomatic approach to teamwork
• A commitment to the rigor of the creative output
• Cultural curiosity
• A global mindset. Experience working in a diverse environment
• A demeanor of humility, respect, and optimism. No ego
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

Cogs & Marvel embraces diversity and celebrates our differences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible PTO
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k
• Commuter benefits
• Mobile Phone Stipend
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Abundant opportunities that come with a dynamic and fast-growing organization!

Cogs & Marvel

Primary Skills: Product Design, Creative Producer, Marketing, Content Creation, Product Design/Development

Contract Type: W2

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Los Gatos, CA

PayRate: $55.34-59.86/hr

NOTE: Role open to Women Back to Work candidates with a career gap

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TALK to a recruiter NOW: CONTACT Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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Work for the best in the industry!

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Collaborating with content creators and production teams to identify merchandise opportunities.
• Conceptualizing and developing new product lines and merchandise collections and overseeing product design and development, from prototyping to mass production.
• Working with licensing partners to secure rights for product development and distribution.
• Collaborating with marketing teams to create effective campaigns and promotions for merchandise and staying up-to-date on industry trends and consumer behavior, and incorporating these into product development.
• Managing budgets, schedules, and timelines for merchandise projects and to be successful in this role, you should have a strong background in product development and design.

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Call NOW: Contact Sahil @ 408-512-2354

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ABOUT AKRAYA

Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. Akraya was recently voted as a 2021 Best Staffing Firm to Temp for by Staffing Industry Analysts and voted by our employees and consultants as a 2022 Glassdoor Best Places to Work.

Akraya, Inc.

Title: Art Director

Duration: 3 Plus Months (Possible Extension)

Location: Universal City, CA 91608 (Hybrid)

3 Days Onsite & 2 Days Remote

Shift Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Job Description:

Required

* 7yrs Exp (open to 4-5 w/solid understanding of 2D & 3D)

* Building a new Team- great opportunity long term – HM is believer of mentorships

* Must have worked on IP and provide feedback on * Web 3/ NFT/ Metaverse – helping support the digital side

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience leading 2D and 3D art on game and interactive production teams, including shipped product—ideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
• Shipped multiple titles from established IP in a high-level art role
• Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UI/UX and technical art challenges
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Receptive to critique and feedback
• Solid project management skills and excellent knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices
• Strong process knowledge, attention to detail, organizational skills and timely follow-up
• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring artists
• Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between engineering, production, design, and art
• Must have strong market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development

Desired:

• A degree from a four-year college, with a preference for an advanced degree
• Existing ability to work hands-on implementing art in-game concept prototypes.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead art direction across multiple games and digital content in the Client portfolio
• Ensure games are visually beautiful, functional, performant, and “on-brand” for the IP
• Act as the visual visionary who makes sure the finished game fulfils team, studio, and company goals.
• Present project concepts and vision to department leadership
• Manage the day-to-day process, providing hands-on feedback and concept ideation
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to facilitate well-planned and executed features
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production, Product Marketing, Franchise Management, Technology and Publishing
• Initiate research and implementation of new techniques and processes to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of art production

eTeam

Your Role

As an Art Direction Intern, you will work to understand our client’s objectives, help shape the creative approach and work with the design team in overseeing the creative vision and execution of projects.

What you’ll do

• Concept ideas for clients within consumer products industry like beauty and hygiene lines
• Bring those ideas to life with teams and junior copy writer partners
• Work with and learn from an Art Director and other craft experts
• Operate and learn across mediums, particularly in social (TikTok, Instagram, etc) and other digital platforms
• Contribute to the culture that makes up our team (new people make us better)

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree, certification program or equivalent work experience
• An engaging portfolio than demonstrates both conceptual ability and art direction craft
• Enthusiasm, big ideas and attention for details are welcome
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (After effect, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

You are passionate about the creative world and love to stay on top of the latest trends,strategies, and technologies as well as how competitors within the industry are doing things

Eligibility

• You can be a rising senior, recent graduate, career changer, or reentering the workforce after taking some time off
• You must be currently based in the U.S.
• Tell us if you are available to work for 40 hours per week. If not, what is your availability? We offer flexible schedules to work around school or other commitments

Additional Information

Program Duration and Details:

• Hybrid Internship (minimum of 1-2 days in office with virtual exceptions by agency)
• 10-week internship program from 6/6/2023-8/15/2023
• The hourly rates for our internship positions are $20-23/hour based on role, skill set, education level, and experience

At Publicis Groupe, we offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.

You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.

Saatchi & Saatchi X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color,ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

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

Razorfish

Your Role

As an Art Direction Intern, you will work to understand our client’s objectives, help shape the creative approach and work with the design team in overseeing the creative vision and execution of projects.

What you’ll do

• Concept ideas for clients within consumer products industry like oral hygiene and food
• Bring those ideas to life with teams and junior copy writer partners
• Work with and learn from an Art Director and other craft experts
• Operate and learn across mediums, particularly in traditional like print for advertisement, promotions, packaging and more
• Contribute to the culture that makes up our team (new people make us better)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• An engaging portfolio than demonstrates both conceptual ability and art direction craft
• Enthusiasm, big ideas and attention for details are welcome
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (After effect, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

You are passionate about the creative world and love to stay on top of the latest trends,strategies, and technologies as well as how competitors within the industry are doing things

Eligibility

• You can be a rising senior, recent graduate, career changer, or reentering the workforce after taking some time off
• You must be currently based in the U.S.
• Tell us if you are available to work for 40 hours per week. If not, what is your availability? We offer flexible schedules to work around school or other commitments

Additional Information

Program Duration and Details:

• Hybrid Internship (minimum of 1-2 days in office with virtual exceptions by agency)
• 10-week internship program from 6/6/2023-8/15/2023
• The hourly rates for our internship positions are $20-23/hour based on role, skill set, education level, and experience

At Publicis Groupe, we offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.

You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.

Saatchi & Saatchi X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color,ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

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

Razorfish