Junior Art Director

Description

The Marketing team is searching for a highly qualified Assistant Art Director to support the department’s initiatives. This is key role that will promote creative and new ideas for e-commerce photography, video and art direction on our website, and our retail partners. The ideal candidate will have prior experience with e-commerce art direction in addition to a wide range of design functions include onsite design, emails, seasonal design style guides, photography style guides, photo production, post production, asset management, etc. This role is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to be an owner on all of their projects, contribute new ideas to a growing, collaborative team. The Assistant Art Director will be an organized multitasker able to handle many diverse projects at once, meet tight deadlines, and wear multiple hats.

Key Responsibilities

As an Assistant Art Director, you will be supporting the Art Director and collaborating departments. You will be responsible for leading all e-commerce photography shoots (pre-production and post-production) overseeing digital creative for our website, and providing creative solutions for DTC and wholesale sites. Supporting our e-commerce will be your top priority, but you’ll also have the opportunity to work on special projects for the brands including social content creation, email design, and micro campaign concepting. This is a highly visible role in a collaborative environment that values collaboration and ideas from all team members.

Your role will include:

• Provide technical knowledge to photographer, retouching, and all 3rd party partners relative to photography, product styling, lighting, composition, crops, and establishing guidelines to convey direction and mood
• Directing still life and flat photography across categories including e-commerce needs, social photography, and special projects
• Oversee partners critical to the creative workflow and process, preparing the team to adapt to new solutions and techniques as needed.
• Work closely with the Product Design Directors and Art Director on seasonal styling, moods, model casting, retouching/color notes, etc. for consumer facing projects in addition to wholesale projects (e.g. retailer needs and market launches)
• Cultivate a test-and-learn culture, ensuring everyone contributes to how we redefine e-commerce photography (and potentially video in future!)
• Learning our product line in-depth so that you may concept creative, out of the box visual communication strategies to optimize conversions and storytelling on our site and our retail partners
• Working with the E-commerce team to create digital assets for our site, including homepage assets, promo assets, etc.
• Special projects including: Marketing Materials for store teams, including localized campaign materials and product knowledge materials. Social media assets, collaborating with Social Media manager on out-of-the box storytelling ideas

Requirements

We’re excited about you if you have:

3-5 years of design experience including being very comfortable overseeing e-commerce shoots and post-production with large volume of assets

BA or BFA preferred in Graphic Design or Communication Design

Proficient knowledge of Adobe programs: Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign (Premier/After Effects is a plus).

Solid understanding of creative production timelines, budgets, and needs to ensure a productive on0-set experience and output while maximizing video and still assets across multiple projects a year

Solid organizational skills, detail-oriented; time management skills, ability to juggle priorities.

Strong relationship-building skills; ability to collaborate and work with a variety of people in various disciplines.

Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

Ability to work in a very fast paced environment and meet very tight deadlines.

An entrepreneurial spirit and an organic love for the the brand

Commercially focused and curious to understand the performance behind images

A quick learner possessing a sharp mind and can quickly adapt to a fast-paced environment

Confidential