Art Director

Senior Art Director

Location: San Francisco/Bay Area

The Opportunity

We are seeking a talented Art Director to join our growing creative team in San Francisco. Whether working on a big (a multi-channel campaign) or small (a social post) project, we need a nimble Art Director who consistently delivers exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused concepts and designs for various digital and print objectives. Partnering with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:

Responsibilities

• Required to develop concepts and designs for print and digital across a wide range of assignments including large 360 campaigns to one-off social posts, banner ads, reports, video storyboards, mockups, infographics, presentations, and print collateral
• Strong conceptual, typographic and layout skills needed in a Mac-based environment
• Ability to take direction and work collaboratively with production, strategy and account
• Flexibility to both ideate and execute ideas
• Partner as well as lead a team of designers to execute an idea or layout
• Ability to ideate independently or alongside a writer partner

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of art direction experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations)
• Must have a portfolio that showcases both conceptual ideation and design execution

Additional Qualifications

• Education in design and conceptual thinking is preferred
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint)
• Experienced in Sketch and Figma
• Must be self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables
• The ongoing drive to understand emerging techniques, trends, and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media
• Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, UX, HTML5, Ceros

About us

Back in 1999, Iris was founded by a team of six people around a single client. Those six founders are still at the very heart of our business. Today, Iris is a thriving micro-network of over 1,000 people in 14 locations across the globe. We deliver a multitude of fully integrated specialisms within creative, consulting and mar-tech to some of the most progressive clients around the world.

We are part of the Cheil Worldwide network – the world’s 15th biggest creative agency company. Our partnership with Cheil has allowed us to extend our global to a network of 55 offices.

We are ‘For the Forward’. Always exploring. Restless. Never done. Radiators of positive energy that serve to motivate. Empowering and supporting others to find opportunity. We liberate ourselves by removing the barriers that stand in the way of progress. Confident, bold, decisive and at times challenging. We stretch what’s possible. Always asking ‘What will move us Forward?’

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large. We are For The Forward.

Iris