Senior Art Director

Connecticut marketing agency seeking a hands-on, Sr. Art Director. The This role will be responsible for working closely with account teams on client projects, keeping multiple projects moving at the same time. This position requires the ability to work both independently and collaboratively with various departments.

The Opportunity:

This is a role for a highly strategic and conceptual experienced Senior Art Director who is creative, collaborative, and able to bring their skills to a new and dynamic environment. Responsibilities include leading creative team members to reach deeper collaboration and grow creatively and professionally. The ideal candidate must have the ability to strategize, conceptualize, design, and direct creative solutions for a wide-range of projects and campaigns. Our campaigns are focused on making positive impacts in communities—so we need an individual who is interested in really digging in to understand and develop communications around complex challenges in education, health care, transportation, environment, and early childhood—and designing for a range of audiences across the full spectrum of communication channels.

Key Responsibilities

• Use collaboration and creativity to develop unique, compelling, and positive creative campaigns.
• Execute and direct high-quality creative work across diverse channels, including deliverables developed for print, digital, social, audio, video, events. Develop and present creative assets to clients.
• Work with team members to make sure all projects meet client objectives and budgetary guidelines.
• Keep team members briefed on creative projects; drive collaboration; ensure productivity.
• Analyze and cross-check information to ensure all materials are complete, accurate, and fulfill the scope.
• Communicate effectively and professionally internally and externally; foster a positive team atmosphere.
• Jump in to support the team and be a valuable creative contributor.
• Keep abreast of current interactive, mobile, advertising, design, and visual communications.

Leadership

• Develop collaborative structure; daily meetings to review creative assignments and collaborate and ideate
• Mentor and manage team members, make it fun and goal oriented
• Help on presenting to clients and help build these skills within team
• Understand trends and ensure team members are actively assessing, and adding skills: remote camera work, streaming video, content strategies—running list and ensure there is a lead that teaches others; report back
• Learn the depth of client challenges to ensure creative can strategically respond
• Learn the methodology and ensure creative and social respond
• Potentially develop intern program for writing, design, social, web
• Understand how to work google docs, google sheets, Hive, etc.
• Work with Creative Production Manager to know all projects moving and jump in as needed
• Help with creative briefs and strategies
• Work with account team and be a creative representative for client interactions
• Assess team members, make recommendations for reviews, hiring, warning, terminations

Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to strategically interface and brainstorm with other teammates regarding the visual display of information; Ability to grasp the substance of business issues being communicated and then re-articulate visual options that enhance and clarify audience understanding.
• Exercise judgment and project management skill to balance priorities and communicate to teams to meet and exceed project deadlines and commitments.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic and ability to manage time and take initiative.
• Professional client service manner and ability to interact with all levels of management.
• Speed and agility; Ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure, developing creative design within extremely tight deadlines—willingness to work occasional weekend hours.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Illustration, or related art field.
• Minimum 6 years of experience creating digital assets for web, display, mobile, print, video, in an agency setting.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, and InDesign.
• Video and Audio Capabilities a plus.

Confidential