Senior Art Director

About Creative at The Escape Pod:

Creatives at The Escape Pod are experts at challenging comfortable — concepting, presenting, and executing ideas that are timely, rooted in insights, and thoughtful in craft. We help brands move beyond the ‘sea of sameness’ in ownable and authentic ways. We design, write, and produce creative across every medium to break through in culture, escaping the status quo. If that sounds exciting to you, then we’d love to talk to you about this opportunity on our team.

Job Overview:

The Escape Pod is looking for a Sr. Art Director who is a seasoned pro and loves the craft. Someone who is passionate about ideas, and persuasive in selling their ideas to others. Someone who is eager to collaborate, ideate and build things that don’t exist yet. We want your passion for pushing the envelope, cutting through the content clutter to shine in your work and how you present. Strategy and finding/leveraging human behaviors and insights is also what we’re looking for. We want a Sr. Art Director who can lead projects with their partner, concepting, shaping, re-shaping, etc., constantly striving for the best ideas.

What You’ll Do:

• Brainstorm and develop strategically sound creative concepts
• Lead social content that brings strategy to life across platforms. From social-first activations to platform hacks, tentpole moments to evergreen content, the internet will be your oyster.
• Must stay current on all existing, new, and emerging technologies that relate to social media, as well as cultural trends
• Present work internally and to clients
• Own a project from conception through completion
• You will lead projects and also work as part of a team in large or small groups in a collaborative fashion
• You will be proactive in bringing ideas to the table that are above and beyond the current asks
• Take direction from CDs and continue to learn
• Be a part of new business pitches

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years relevant work experience
• Portfolio of your work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Extremely detail oriented and organized
• Professional and assertive with the ability to keep cool and think clearly under pressure
• Proven ability to work on a team through annual brand planning and building of a campaign from the ground up
• Experience leading creative projects and teams

About The Escape Pod:

At the Escape Pod, we don’t claim to do a million things just OK. We do four things brilliantly: Strategy, Creative, Production, and Partnership. We help clients escape from predictable to, well, not. We help clients escape from the crowded space to the white space. We help clients escape the old school notion of ‘bossy agencies’ to a world of empathetic partnership. We’re a 2-time winner of AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Award and in 2022 we’ll be the first agency ever to host the Small Agency Conference and Awards in our office.

Additional Information:

The Escape Pod is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities or any other protected basis because we believe the best and brightest come from all walks of life. We aspire to foster a community in which diversity is valued in both our employees and our ideas.

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