Art Director

Art Director, Mobility

6+ month full time W2 contract

Hybrid, 2 days per week in San Francisco

Free parking, Gym, Perks

The Sage Group’s client, is a technology company that is reimagining the way the world moves for the better. We are building technology people use every day. Whether it’s heading home from work, getting a meal delivered from a favorite restaurant, or a way to earn extra income.

About the team

The Creative Team is charged with boldly connecting our business with our users. Creative excellence is the measure of our success. No matter how large or small the project, we apply our craft with diligence and heart. Across every campaign. Every illustration. Every playbook. Every email. We know that technology isn’t what defines us. It is humanity that fuels our platform, allowing us to transcend the cold, impersonal generic to weave compelling narratives for all our users. Leveraging embedded brand expertise, defined processes, and scalable tools and solutions, we dynamically turn around ideas and deliver with efficiency and speed. We are a global team with a headquarters in San Francisco, CA and teams in NY and Amsterdam.

About the role

We’re looking for a conceptual art director and designer who can bring the brand to life across all our customer touch points with bold ideas. You will work on a customer-focused team to design product, digital, and print communications. The job involves working collaboratively with global marketing teams, creative problem solving, and creating clear and compelling design. This visual craftsperson should know what works and what doesn’t, should have superb layout and graphic design skills and a mastery over storyboards, as well as big platform ideas and how they flex across the funnel.

This role will entail communicating effectively with the creative/art directors, designers, copywriters, developers, project and marketing managers. This person should be able to think beyond a single channel execution, identify new opportunities and execute on complex design & communication strategies. Be prepared to develop concepts and ideas from the ground up, pitch ideas to leadership, and create compelling, relevant, and meaningful work. As an art director, you’ll work on multiple projects, prioritizing as needed and efficiently managing time while receiving strategic and tactical direction. You’ll intelligently explore the problem space with a high degree of autonomy, using the appropriate tools and levels of fidelity. Owning the design process end-to-end, moving from concept through to shipping, at multiple fidelity levels and producing handoffs to support that process.

Responsibilities

• Set the visual tone and direction of campaigns, building concepts and bring them to life
• Design digital, owned, and print channels for a brand platform where ideas can work globally and scale locally
• Develop resources, guidelines and templates that empower the global marketing team to create beautiful and thoughtful brand expressions
• Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary team including copywriters, communication designers, illustrators, environments designers, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors to build and maintain visual brand excellence for a wide range of design needs
• Ensure quality is high in all aspects of execution
• Develop detailed design specs for creative guidelines & production
• Identify blockers before they happen, suggest solutions to work process and systems
• Present work to creative peers and creative leadership, selling your idea with excellent presentation skills

Requirements

5+ years working as an Art Director/Designer in a creative agency or comparable in-house agency

Expertise in Figma and Adobe suite application

Pixel-perfect attention to detail

Experience working with business and marketing stakeholders; receiving feedback and adapting work

Experience managing large projects; ability to design according to business and technical requirements and comfort with ambiguity and changes in direction

Portfolio of beautiful, compelling marketing and brand oriented work

Experience working on a range of digital projects including responsive web pages, paid media and email templates

A solid understanding of typography and designing to a grid

Experience designing for different audiences (B2B, consumer, enterprise)

Proficiency in quickly iterating in design for customer testing

Experience concepting and designing for social campaigns

Ability to collaborate with a large team and take direction

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in digital marketing (Email, in-app, SMS/PUSH, paid social and display channels) best practices

Experience in campaign creative

User-centered design and strategy

Proficiency designing for print

Understand how to scale ideas for global deliverables

Degree in design, communications, marketing; or equivalent

A desire to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a broad in-house team

Familiarity with Google Docs and Slides

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