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Position: Sr. Art Director

Location: Onsite Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Salary: $75,000-85,000, plus benefits

Hours: Full-time

Duration: Permanent

Our client, a marketing agency in Indianapolis, is looking for a Sr. Art Director. Our client works with businesses that make the world a better place, and who are willing to be bold. They believe in honesty, kindness, and being choosy about the clients they work with.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Collaborating with copywriters/creative partners to help develop strategy, concepts and ideas that align with the brand and brief that help push long term brand growth.
• Creating, reviewing, and approving designs and other types of graphics for projects
• Managing design workflows and collaborating with designers and writers to ensure projects are delivered on time and are of quality
• Communicating with clients and/or senior management to develop an aesthetic that reflects the goals of a campaign or project
• Generating cost estimates for projects and directing photo/video production with minimal oversight
• Presenting creative concepts to clients for approval
• Helping to train and mentor junior designers, art directors and copywriters.
• Bringing in new ideas and processes that benefit the creative department

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years
• Experience planning and directing complex photo/video shoots
• Experience managing a creative team for large scale campaigns
• Expertise with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign and other job specific software and tools as well as familiarity with HTML, CSS, UX/UI
• Able to perform all Designer level responsibilities as needed for projects
• Able to fulfill responsibilities with little oversight

Vitamin T

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible, at Cash App you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.

Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are.

Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

As an Art Director on the Creative Campaign sub-team within our Creative Design team, you will be at the heart of coming up with big campaign ideas and boundless brand extensions, and work with teams across Cash App to bring them to life. You’ll be asked to translate project strategy into innovative advertising experiences across every medium. And you’ll be a big part of a small team tasked with launching creative marketing experiences that guide our mission, and drive our business and brand forward.

The Campaign Team focuses on creating innovative brand experiences that are built upon brand values and marketing strategy, solve for audience challenges, show up authentically in culture and are executed with a high level of craft. We work across most all traditional and non-traditional spaces, whether it’s the latest social platforms, video, web and mobile experiences, outdoor advertising, experiential installations, photography, animation, and more.

Our Creative Design team is made up of accomplished creative directors, copywriters, art directors, animators, designers and copywriters. This role reports to our Integrated Campaign Creative Director.

In This Role, You Will

• Translate brand strategy and human insight into powerful and purposeful creative solutions
• Develop innovative ideas and execute campaign projects across every medium.
• Produce, enhance, and voice creative presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Work with partners across Cash App (often collaborating with writers, designers, marketers, producers, and creative directors) to guarantee an integrated brand experience.

Qualifications

• You have 3 – 6 years of relevant creative advertising experience or freelance work
• You understand how marketing objectives, strategic positioning, and audience insights can influence creative ideation
• You have a portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to conceive for a variety of audiences, brand challenges, styles, and media.
• You generate clear ideas and concepts that solve for brand marketing objectives
• You have an eye for great design and high production value, from initial presentation to final execution.
• You have experience pushing a brand forward with fresh, inventive ideas through both new and traditional brand channels / media
• You have experience working cross-functionally to launch creative deliverables
• You have an insatiable appetite for new content and culture, an irrational ambition to make things no one has ever made before, and a contagious passion for the work that confronts challenges with optimism.
• Please submit a portfolio of work in order to be considered.

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.
Cash App

About Artifact Design and This Position.

There has never been a better time to join our team of visual artists and storytellers. Artifact Design is the leading design-driven post-production studio in Atlanta, creating award winning content for any screen or venue. As Creative Director you will help lead our design vision and drive our future growth.

Our clients and partners are those who love the art of communication and the power of collaboration. We offer a wide array of services including design, motion graphics, 3D visualizations, VFX, color grading, and extensive post-production.

Role and Responsibilities for Creative Director

The job of Creative Director at Artifact goes beyond overseeing creative production on specific jobs. This is a leadership role, which means this individual is not only responsible for making sure our team is on-target and on-time, but also for making sure our clients gets the highest quality for their budget and timeline. All leadership roles at Artifact are involved with overall company goal setting, motivation and support of teams, developing relationships with Artifact’s current clients and helping our Executive Producer in establishing new clientele. Above all our Creative Director needs to exude a genuine passion and excitement for design, and a desire to create the highest quality visual products and experiences.

 Specific Responsibilities

• Develop and manage creative concepts through production. This includes conceptualizing and presenting ideas, planning the creative approach, and leading teams through working with footage, motion graphics and visual effects to tell the brand stories of our clients.
• Lead teams through a diverse range of projects, large and small, from 2D cell animation to 3D based jobs to interactive projects.
• Work closely with our Head of Production in choosing the appropriate resources for each job.
• Compose treatments, style-frames, and boards to solve the client creative brief .
• Mentor junior talent within the design department.
• Work closely with Project Producer to ensure projects stay within allotted budget and timeline.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of creative technology advancements and current design trends.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of art direction, post-production, motion design and animation experience.
• Knowledge of Adobe CC, Premier, Affect Effects and 3D pipelines,
• Applicants must exude integrity, honesty, and professionalism at all times. 
• Solid presentation skills. Comfortable presenting ideas to new clientele, and production progress to existing clientele.
• Ability and willingness to mentor other senior and junior staff members, able to inspire teamwork and collaboration
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple requests and responsibilities. This includes the ability and willingness to delegate.
• Ability to remain focused and calm within a sometimes fast-pasted environment.
• A genuine passion and excitement for design, and a desire to create the highest quality visual products and experiences.
• Experience in AR/VR/interactive or user interface design is beneficial.
• Strong portfolio of completed work.
• Great references.

Artifact Design, Inc.

The IDW Entertainment department is driven to find the next big thing, and we’re hoping that can include you as our new Creative Director. The ideal candidate will have a natural eye for design and a drive to inspire dynamic ideas that connect with all types of audiences.

Responsibilities

• Working with external creatives to visually translate their vision of the look and feel of various potential entertainment properties.
• Producing new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications.
• Collaborating with artists to develop necessary materials that accompany pitches for entertainment properties.
• Photo editing and image creation.
• Create web design, branding and identity development, package design, brainstorm ideation sketches and concept renderings, infographics and more.
• Evaluating trends, assessing new data, and keeping up-to-date with the latest entertainment trends.
• Participating in brainstorming meetings and creative sessions on projects across a wide variety of genres.
• Shaping brand standards and creating procedures to ensure all products are brand appropriate.
• Prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term needs, establishing production schedules
• Produce fresh, innovative work that translates complex ideas into compelling experiences for visually sophisticated audiences
• Present, or oversee presentation of final concepts, and obtain approvals for deliverables

Requirements and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in art, graphic design, marketing, or other relevant fields.
• 6-8 years experience, particularly with, but not limited to web, social, and emerging technologies.
• A solid understanding of design, copy, and web practices.
• Strong proficiency in the Adobe Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Brilliant interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have in-depth knowledge of brand development and multichannel marketing models in the Entertainment industry.
• Must be a creative and strategic thinker.
• Years of experience translating written entertainment pitches into engaging visual worlds.
• Comfortable multitasking in a fast-paced environment.  

ABOUT IDW

IDW Publishing (IDWP), a subsidiary of IDW Media Holdings Inc. (OTC PINK: IDWM), is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, trade paperbacks, and tabletop games.

Founded in 1999, IDWP is one of the top four publishers of comic books and graphic novels in the U.S with an award-winning library of world-renowned licensed content and original series. More than 80 IDWP titles have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list, and have won 48 Eisner Awards, the highest honor in comic book publishing, and 27 Harvey Awards. 

IDW Entertainment (IDWE) develops, finances, produces, and distributes creative, diversified and targeted entertainment content ranging from sister company IDW Publishing’s extensive IP catalog of comic books and graphic novels. Since 2013, IDWE has successfully delivered three seasons of the critically-acclaimed Wynonna Earp, and the Netflix series adaptations of the popular comic book Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez and show run by Carlton Cuse, V-Wars starring Ian Somerhalder, and October Faction.

IDW Media Holdings

Position: Creative Brand Director

Location: Hybrid

Starts: As soon as candidate is identified

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: Depends on Experience

One of our food safety clients is looking for a Creative Brand Manager to join their team as a direct hire, full-time employee and willing to work in the Lansing area.

About the company:

An international food safety company that provides test kits and products to detect dangerous substances in food.

We are looking for you!

• 5+ years experience as a creative leader in an agency or in -house setting
• Hands on experience in creative process, full-cycle brand concepts, marketing, design, brand development and more
• Adobe Creative Suite, MS office, CRM experience a bonus
• Leadership experience/have had direct reports a bonus

What you will do:

• Responsible for evolution of brand style guides and implementation across national and global scale
• Support all marketing initiatives including video, photography and technology/digital
• Lead a small team of creatives to ensure deliverables are within brand style from start to finish
• Work cross-functionally with marketing leaders and stakeholders to drive business
• If not local to Lansing, best fit candidates will still be considered; Relocation available

#IND123

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

Position: Creative Director

Location: Boston – Metro North

Starts: Within a Couple Weeks

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: $150,000-$175,000 DOE

Our client, a family owned retailer, is looking for a Creative Director to join their team full-time! This opportunity will require Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays in their Acton office, with Mondays and Fridays remote.

As a Creative Director your will:

• Work closely with their VP of Marketing and Art Director to develop their visual brand voice, revamping their existing brand and rolling out new brand guidelines
• Manage and coach 3 direct reports including a copywriter, designer/ illustrator and social media manager
• Execute and bring to life creative that spans print, digital, social, video and web
• Identify and optimize branding strategy and creative assets based on industry trends
• Aid in marketing strategy and how branding contributes to organic social content, video content and in-store marketing/displays

The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience and demonstrated aptitude in brand identity, graphic design, and art direction; video production oversight will be highly valued
• Background in retail or agency
• Experience building a brand identity from scratch or revamping an existing brand
• The ability to concept and flush out campaign work across digital, print, video, TV and social
• Experience managing a team
• Experience presenting and defending concepts (either client facing or internally)
• Desire to remain hands-on with execution
• Proven understanding of store design and visual merchandising
• Experience hiring and managing external creative, media and PR agencies

If you are interested in this Creative Director opportunity, apply now!

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

Our client is one of the most coveted skin care brands in the world. Based in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, they are a collaborative, dynamic, creative and closely connected group that has built the brand into a global beauty powerhouse and a leader in ultra-luxury skincare.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Art Director is responsible for strategic content creation from inception through completion. Reporting into the Vice President and the Executive Director, the art director develops concept campaigns from ideation to execution of all assets for a 360 campaign. The ideal candidate will create extraordinarily strong storytelling and is an analytical thinker, able to create holistic content and execute breakthrough consumer-centric initiatives across our brand channels – print, digital, and social media. They will work cross-functionally with Copy, Digital, Visual Merchandising, and the Social team to develop campaigns. The candidate will be an innovative, strategic, passionate creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.

RESPONSABILITIES:

• Create awe-inspiring, strong story-telling creative content creation/campaigns
• for all global programs that resonates with target audiences.
• A definitive creative vision, a high level of design sophistication, a keen eye for photography, and strong typography skills are essential.
• Direct projects from concept through coordination of photo shoots, retouching, mechanical production and release.
• Lead with various departments and functions including Designers, Visual Merchandising, Copywriters and Production Artists during project development.
• Partner with Operations to meet fast paced timelines
• Ensure best in class standards are being met.
• Integrate specific projects with overall brand standards and style guidelines.
• Take ownership of deliverables and initiatives with acute attention to craft and detail
• Be able to present ideas to senior management team
• Must have a good eye for layout and details and an expert in luxury space.
• Must have a good eye for color and experienced in image color markup

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Position requires 8+ years related experience at a traditional ad agency or similar experience in a brand creative studio.
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, and Keynote to create presentation decks
• Good interpersonal skills required, a team play mentality.
• Is self-motivated and resourceful with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Conceptual thinker. Being able to ideate, present, develop, and execute projects from start to finish in highest quality.
• Ability to work in a fast- paced environment, manage multiple projects under tight deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities and creative approaches.
• Strong organizational skills, meticulous and detailed oriented in both your technical work and your ability to expertly present your designs
• Great understanding of luxury market and be familiar with trends in culture, luxury arena, design, technology, user experience, and social media
• Understanding and implementation of animation and video production skills a plus.
• Working knowledge of prototyping tools (InVision, Marvel, etc.)
• Story boarding, motion graphics and video experience

TDA Creative

PA Wanted *Locals only please*
Day Rate: $210/4
10/12/22
Birmingham, AL
Responsibilities: Standing in, load in, load out, extra hands on set.

Date – 10/7/2022 – 10/8/2022

Project – CFB North Carolina @ Miami

Location –  Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, FL

Position – Skilled Utility/Grip

Rate –  $300/10 +OT

MUST BE VAXED AND BOOSTED

The Role

Mint is looking for a passionate, talented creative to join our team. Reporting to the ECD, you’ll get the opportunity to flex your creative chops and work on a wide range of projects – from video, XM, digital, print, pr and more. Responsible for coming up with big ideas, tactical executions and overall visual direction, the Senior Art Director is a key collaborative member of the agency team, as both a leader and mentor to other creatives.

Responsibilities:

• Generate big ideas and creative concepts based on creative briefs
• Develop visual language and oversee visual direction of projects
• Collaborate with an integrated agency team of writers, strategists, account services and PR experts
• Provide visual direction for photography, film, animation, digital and print executions
• Sell through creative to internal stakeholders and clients
• Develop new 360o creative approaches
• Immerse themselves in a client’s brand and business problems
• Supervise and mentor other art directors and designers

Skills, Abilities and Experience:

• 5-7+ years of experience in an agency
• Strong aesthetic inspired by forward thinking design trends
• Great presentation and communication skills
• Proficient in creative suite for Mac operating systems;
• Strong understanding of the creative process
• Familiar with production process of all relevant disciplines
• Fluent in English, oral and written

*Please include your online portfolio link with your application

About Mint

We’re an independent creative agency made of culture creatures with multidisciplinary expertise across all major marketing disciplines.

Driven by creativity and inspired by humanity, we focus on brand love between companies and people. Our best work is done through true partnership, as an extension of and advisor to our clients. Guided by core structure, we build bespoke teams to collaborate on our client’s individual business problems to produce creative work that makes a positive impact on culture and the future.

Our Values

• Empathy – We believe the work is better when we consider the world through the eyes of others.
• Optimism – We believe in the good above all else; the good in people, the good in the world and the good in our future.
• Audaciousness – We are brave enough to try the untried and unexpected. And we dare to always follow through.
• Progressiveness – We fear status quo, so we break conventions and push to evolve, innovate and disrupt.
• Kindness – We are respectful, honest, transparent, inclusive, social and good to each other.

What we do: Advertising, Design & Branding, Strategy, Social, Digital, Content, Experiential, PR and Talent & Influencer.

Mint is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Mint