Art Director

Art Director – 100% REMOTE

Do you rewrite or concept every ad you see in your head? Is a missing Creative Brief an opportunity? Want everyone to see your work in 130k+ locations or millions of homes? Love developing new product brands? You may be a fit for our award-winning creative team!!

We are currently seeking an Art Director to join our internal creative team. This role will be responsible for evolving and developing not only the company brand across multiple channels but national brand partners as well. This will include standout design and typography skills, campaign development, point of sale, packaging, product launches, video, and print/digital production.

Communication skills are integral, and the perfect person for this role will fit into the team by communicating well with product and marketing managers on some days and software developers on others. The Creative Team champions the brand throughout the company, and a person in this role should be an effective advocate for other departments.

All candidates must have an online portfolio of work that showcases design, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail, so show us what you’ve got! Our creative team is flexible and remote working, but we still like to get together in our new Austin office for great collaboration on projects.

Responsibilities:

• Art Direction, Conceptual and Visual design for print, packaging, and online environment.
• Develop collateral for partners and organization brands.
• Should be able to quickly understand goals and scope of projects and have the ability to communicate with internal clients.
• Able to stick to a pre-established timeline
• Communicate with the project team throughout all stages of design.
• Adhere to (and help develop) best practices.
• Contribute to the development of various concept-driven projects.

Skills/Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year university (or equivalent) – ideally focused on art direction and/or design.
• Ability to create standout, original concepts for print and web.
• Ideally, 5+ years as an art director or designer for a creative firm, with some digital experience as well.
• Experience with web and digital
• Experience or exposure to video storyboarding and direction is a plus.
• Ability to work with a large variety of clients.
• Ability to communicate and inform the project team members.
• Familiar with current web standards, A11Y, and mobile-first best practices.
• Adobe CC expertise
• Figma experience is a plus
• Jira and Google Suite (g-suite) are a plus
• Must demonstrate the ability to deliver projects to client specifications within timeline and budget.
• Ability to create exceptional designs under a strict deadline.
• List of URLs/online portfolio; please give SPECIFIC details about your level of involvement (concept, art, code, writing, etc.) on each project.
• Deadline-and-detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple projects within tight timeframes.

The Perks: Long-term contract with option (and intention) to convert to perm for the right candidate. Perm benefits include full medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), robust PTO, bonus potential, plus all the additional perks of working fully remotely from the comfort of your own home office. Please send your LI profile and your resume that includes a link to your impressive online portfolio.

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