Art Director – Motion

The opportunity

We are looking for an Art Director with a keen eye for design paired with motion design to join one of Seattle’s fasted growing privately held agencies. The successful candidate will leverage their talents to contribute to efforts across the agency in the ed-tech, CPG and enterprise tech space. They’ll partner closely with creative, strategy leads and program managers to form the team that shapes and develops the creative vision for these clients. This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help accelerate the growth of this brand development company through your powerful design and motion skills and imaginative creative ideas.

Who you are

Qualities

• Collaborative creative contributor | You build on other’s ideas as well as your own to unique and captivating work that raises the bar throughout the course of a project — from strategy and concepting, to production and execution, your work improves at every step.
• Visual problem solver | You’re an expert at translate conceptual ideas into tangible realities through design, motion, and conceptual thinking. You’re a rockstar at designing work and ideas, both big and small, that connects a leading brand to their audience.
• Client service obsessed | You’re driven by uncovering new and exciting opportunities for our clients. You partner closely with other on your team to help build relationships that foster trust and explore fresh approaches to solving brand and business problems through your work.
• A true creator | Your design and craft perspective helps to bring the teams ideas to life. You love rolling up your sleeves to concept, craft, and produce creative ideas across the marketing spectrum.

What you love and are great at doing

Skills/track record

• Creatively driven | You are fueled by a passion for crafting and leverage your talents to bring your teams ideas and vision into reality.
• Project planning | You understand what it takes to make good work into great work and collaborate with team leads to keep track of milestones, check-ins, internal and external reviews all in-service of delivering great work for our clients.
• Designing with range and expertise | You excel at working with a range of clients, from scrappy start-ups still establishing their identity to enterprise-level tech giants with robust brand books to build from. Either way you drive brand and business impact you’re your understanding of what our client partners and brands need to communicate visually.
• Excellent communication skills | You are a pro at communicating your ideas so team members and clients alike can join in and help bring the idea to life.
• Team partnership | Working with other creatives as well as other disciplines comes second nature at all stages of the design and creative process; you are not afraid to be involved early to help define the strategic direction and you are not afraid of taking feedback from other disciplines and clients in concepting and execution.

What this job’s about

Responsibilities and activities

 

Creative and client partnership

• Responsible for crafting stunning visuals and motion pieces for various accounts and projects.
• Partner with other creatives and disciplines who together as a team are responsible for the servicing, nurturing, and growth of our clients’ creative businesses.
• In partnership with the creative and program management lead, weigh in on work load prioritization, hour estimates and overall project needs while always keeping an eye out for potential investment opportunities and growth opportunities for our clients’ business.

 

Creative execution  

• Create award worthy design and motion work tailored towards creative campaigns and initiatives for our clients in ed-tech, CPG and enterprise technology space.
• Lead and mentor from your craft expertise to contribute to the growth of a talented team of thinkers, and problem-solving copywriters, art directors and production designers.
• The ability to contribute to concepting, planning, and execution of integrated marketing campaigns and digital activations across a wide range of media and platforms, especially in the social/digital space.
• Experience with best practices and emerging trends for how brands utilize social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest.

 

Trust and ownership

• Earn and develop deep partnerships with creative, strategy, program management and production leads by owning your contributions to the work.
• Set the example for teams working effectively together to deliver beautifully designed creative for social channel development, integrated marketing campaigns, brand development and digital video production.
• Partner with creative and production leads to support and run video/photo productions and vendor relationships.
• Support the building of agency muscles and rhythms, helping cement agency process to help us scale and best practices for our continued success.

The benefits

Salary DOE

Medical, dental & vision

401K

Paid vacation

 

It is the policy of BnB and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. 

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Founded in 2011 by Jessica Michaels, BnB is a brand development venture helping brands rise to their potential. From global B2B and consumer technology clients with big reach and economic impact, to smaller clients with meaningful missions and important ambitions, BnB’s work is grounded in the cornerstone of good business and powerful creativity—trust. With a strong, experienced leadership team, many of whom hail from the world’s most notable agencies and brands, BnB is part of the next generation of innovative agencies that prides itself on playing well with others, delivering fresh perspectives, and being invested in our work as much as our clients.

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