Art Director

Client Location is in Westwood, MA and interested talent must be willing to work 3-days a week in office

Summary:

We are looking for an Art Director/Designer to work within our client’s in-house advertising agency and will report to our Creative/Design Director. This person will be challenged to continually raise the bar on creative expression for specific channels from email/digital to DM/print to PowerPoint. Must have a proven ability to present and communicate creative solutions professionally and succinctly.

The Art Director (AD) is seamlessly able to transform the strategic opportunity into best-in-class creative that elevates our brand vision. A thinker and doer who lives breathes, thinks, and conceptualizes with demonstrated talent. The AD has a deep appreciation for clean, simple, design. Collaborates with copywriters and broader teams to deliver relevant experiences across platforms and branded experiences. Iterates off existing campaigns expanding the brand message.

Responsibilities:

• Art Director will create solutions that reinforce the brand platform at every touch point. Producing high-quality visual and interactive campaigns.
• Work from agreed-upon creative briefs with Copywriter, Creative Director, and Project teams to develop and execute concepts for financial products and marketing initiatives.
• Partner with creative, marketing, and agency teams to deliver creative that maintains the best possible user experience on strategy and on time.
• Understands the competitive landscape, customer feedback, and metrics to create a user-centered design.
• Ability to create visual designs across a wide range of assets (including landing pages, web and mobile interfaces, Online Display Advertising, native ad units, social tiles, and animated gifs) that push the brand, evolve design guidelines, and engage the consumer.
• Present to creative partners effectively and positively while communicating how the work will help achieve goals. Communicate concepts through sketches, diagrams, and visual comps.
• Help Creative team workflow process run smoothly and finds innovative ways to enhance it.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in design or a similar field is preferred or relevant experience.
• 3-5 years of print/digital design experience in in-house marketing and/or agency creative team.
• 3-5 years of experience partnering with multiple internal/external teams.
• Excellent creative online portfolio.
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint. Knowledge of Excel, MS Teams, Outlook, and Word.
• Ability to quickly absorb, express and expand upon Brand Platform and Graphic Standards.
• Create, iterate, and continually deliver design in a clean, concise, intuitive way that maintains brand standards.
• Display rock-solid graphic design skills with an eye for typography, composition, layout, color, and pixel-level attention to detail.
• Knowledge in design best practices for mobile, web, templates, style sheets, and delivering clean and prepped files to developers.
• Understanding the fundamentals, current challenges, and future trends of the digital design landscape.
• Experience in Art Directing photo shoots, select process, artistic cropping, minor retouching, and sharing assets through a content library system.
• Experience in automated workflow tools like Aprimo, Workfront, etc.
• Excellent organization and decision-making skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Thrives to meet aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to work independently.
• A versatile, team player with a positive attitude.
• Agile and pod experience is a plus.

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