Senior Art Director

Timing: July

Duration: Ongoing full-time

Location: Sylvania, OH (flexible hybrid schedule, onsite 3 days/week)

Salary: $65-90K DOE

One of our small agency clients is looking for an Art Director/Senior Art Director to join their team for an exciting full-time role.

This Art Director will be part of the agency’s creative team and someone who can work through projects from initial concept development through to execution/production, bringing a strong track record of delivering innovative, creative solutions on time, within budget, and of the highest quality.

The Art Director must be strategic, design-savvy, and have the ability to stretch both the agency and clients’ thinking while creating award-winning work; must have exceptional creative conceptual ability, strong communication, and the ability to juggle multiple ongoing projects.

Ideal Art Director candidates will have:

– At least 3-6+ years of agency or in-house art direction experience

– BA degree in graphic design or relevant field

– Strong online portfolio showcasing exceptional conceptual and design skills

– Strong communication and presentation skills

– Superior attention to detail

– Experience in dealing directly with clients

– Problem solver with proven history of dealing with unexpected challenges

– Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

– Experience developing social and digital campaigns

– Ability to work within the agency’s culture and a team environment

– Fully proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and familiar with Microsoft 365 including PowerPoint, Word, etc.

Nice to have:

– Video production and web/digital design skills

Job Responsibilities:

– Contribute unique design interpretations and conceptually develop a full range of communication tools including: logos, collateral, advertising, direct mail, retail displays and digital marketing campaigns

– Think beyond design; understand our clients’ business strategy and conceptually brainstorm and develop new ideas to help set them apart

– Collaboratively lead the design and execution of a full range of communication tools aligned with the senior creative team’s vision

– Strong client-facing communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, ability to articulate design

– Ability to work independently while aligning to existing brand guidelines, templated designs and/or creative direction

– Act as creative support on several clients, managing your projects and seeing them through to final art

– Properly package and translate final files for print and digital to go into production while following vendor guidelines closely

– Manage deadlines and workload to ensure projects are delivered on-time and within the allotted budget

*Onsite only (flexible hybrid schedule, onsite 3 days/week)

**Full benefits included

***Occasional travel required to client and/or offsite meetings (10%)

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