At Armadillo, we harness the power of data to change consumer behaviour and deliver unrivalled ROI. And we do this with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Disney, McDonald’s, P&O Cruises and Cunard, producing beautifully creative and effective CRM campaigns.
We are now looking for a Senior Digital Art Director to join us here at Armadillo. Think you can help us?
Senior Digital Art Director role
The Senior Digital Art Director will drive the delivery of client strategy and data goals through your UX solutions. The Senior Digital Art Director will work within our Creative and CX team.
Senior Digital Art Director Responsibilities
- Demonstrate how a user will move through communications (within and between campaigns), whether single or multiple emails, web, push, app to an expert level, using wireframes or low-fi designs; evidenced by minimal input required from senior peers
- Create concepts (whether in collaboration with others or in isolation) that always meet and often exceed project performance goals
- Demonstrate the ability to translate concepts across a comms journey to an expert level; evidenced by minimal input required from senior peers
- Be able to communicate ideas quickly and effectively using sketches or low-fi designs ahead of, and during, ideation sessions, accompanied by verbal description.
- Demonstrate an expert understanding of the brand behaviour of our clients when implementing or evolving style guides, and critiquing the use of brand elements by creatives in your project team.
- Demonstrate expert design skills in layout, typography and image creation/manipulation (vector based illustrations or photographic manipulation), critiquing the layouts by creatives in your discipline team; evidenced by positive feedback from CS and from clients, and by requiring minimal input from senior peers.
- Create innovative, engaging, and workable responsive design solutions for all devices that demonstrate an understanding of the content hierarchy by adapting where required for different formats.
- Identify and propose opportunities for interactivity to enhance the effectiveness of designs; create innovative, engaging and measurable interactive solutions
- Identify and propose opportunities for animation to enhance the effectiveness of designs; bring content to life with animations, by creating clear storyboards and generating high quality animated content
- Ensure accuracy by checking work at every stage, and prepare it for asset release
- Create expert presentation documents, with a clear goal-focused narrative, engaging layouts and helpful annotations for work that is sent to clients, and accompanied by clear verbal narration when in person.
- Maintain excellent collaborative working relationships with agency colleagues at all levels; provide creative expertise, guidance and support for team members in other disciplines to help them meet project goals and deliverables.
- Lead creative output of project team by supporting the professional development of junior project team members, providing effective mentoring and guidance: evidenced by positive development in their QPRs over time
- Expert Adobe CC – Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD and After Effects
Senior Digital Art Director Requirements
- 5+ years’ industry experience
- Expert Adobe CC – Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD and After Effects
- Agency experience is required, ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working on global clients
Industry knowledge
- CRM channels – email, web, push, app (behaviour & technical)
- CRM principles – affinity, loyalty etc.
- Design and communications industry trends
Internal process and procedures
- Follow company process & procedures as outlined in our company handbook (IT policies chain of command, sickness notification etc.)
- Complete personal administration (timesheets, expenses etc.) accurately and in the stated timeframe
Software skills
- Proficient Microsoft – Word, PPT & Excel as well as Google equivalent
- Project management software – Harvest, Trello, Forecast
Armadillo Benefits
- Hybrid environment – 3 days in our central Bristol office / 2 days remote
- 25 days’ annual leave plus a day off on your birthday, increasing by 1 day per annum at each year anniversary up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Summer and Christmas hours – finish 2.5 hours early one Friday per month in June, July, August and December
- Contributory company pension 4% employee 3% employer of total pay through salary sacrifice, escalating 1% each year following your 2nd anniversary at Armadillo, up to 8% employer contribution
- Bupa dental care
- Vitality health insurance
- Lots of social events, including Summer and Christmas parties
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme offered by Assured Health
- IPA Membership
- Bristol Creative Industries Membership
Equal opportunities
Armadillo is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.
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