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.
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