Senior Art Director

The Senior Art Director assists and ensures content creation for the print, digital and social space.  This position will serve as a visual lead, team ideator and subject matter expert internally and externally for all creative assets produced for marketing-driven projects, campaigns and/or ongoing programs.  This role will have experience using a combination of talent and skill to shape high-quality assets (amazing ideas, expertly crafted from a visual tone, topic/theme, search, accuracy and clarity perspective).  This role is accountable to the Associate Creative Director.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Create (and review others in creating) audience-centric assets, inclusive of articles, graphics, infographics, video scripts, social media content, etc.) for all channels – print, digital (mobile first) and social
• Art direction and execution of illustrations, photo shoots and video shoots, both externally and in-house productions
• Create original content to adhere to client’s brand; understand and enforce the brand guidelines for assigned work
• Active participation in brainstorming and ideation
• Facilitate both internal and client-facing presentations
• Manage and mentor Art Directors and Designers to ensure that their work on brand and on strategy
• Manage and direct freelancers
• Inform hour estimates to the Associate Creative Director
• Collaborate and share ideas and best practices with peers across the organization
• Creation and ownership of the creative slides in PowerPoint as a part of larger presentation decks
• Strong collaboration with editorial team members
• Consistent engagement with the workflow tool

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

BFA in Graphic Design or related degree

Experience:

5-7 years in a design related field; agency experience preferred

Skills:

• Demonstrate leadership skills; Experience in a management role
• Experience directing photo and video shoots
• An understanding and advocate of the print production process and the video/photo shoot process, including the three bid process and necessary steps for outside vendors
• Active participation in brainstorming and ideation
• Ability to present ‘the strategic why’ behind the creative and articulate the solve
• Solid grasp of web design principles and an understanding of front-end web technologies
• Knowledge of the digital, social, video shoot and print production process
• Ability to self-manage time and meet expected deadlines, completing work on time and within the hours allocated
• Proficient in: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, PowerPoint
• Knowledge of the CMS systems and workflow tool
• Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced atmosphere with minimal supervision

The salary for this position will range from $55,000.00 – $72,000.00, depending on experience, education, geographical location, and other factors.

Employees are offered a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, and more. For more information regarding Pace’s benefits please look at our Benefits page: https://www.paceco.com/culture/benefits/

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Pace we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace, so if you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we urge you to apply regardless. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have available.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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