Digital Art Director

DIGITAL ART DIRECTOR, HYBRID, NASHVILLE TN

C2 client, an independent full-service advertising and marketing agency, seeks a Digital Art Director who is organized, efficient, and proactive. The ideal candidate is a conceptual creator across all mediums that eats, breathes and sleeps advertising! Should also be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be skilled in working with diverse groups of people. The right candidate brings a superior ability to concept, craft design and a deep love for typography. Hands-on experience across the broad variety of Adobe Creative Cloud programs required.

Start date: As soon as they find the right person

Location: Hybrid in Nashville, TN required

Compensation: $65k-$75k/year and Senior Art Director title

Benefits: Health Insurance (agency contribution of 50%-75%), as well as supplemental policies, 401K, Paid Vacation and Sick time, Ongoing professional development opportunities, Competitive Family & Medical leave policies, 10 paid holidays, in-house exercise room

What You Would Do:

• Intimately understand the client’s business, industry and competition, leveraging that knowledge to help generate new ideas to strategically grow their business
• Help conceptualize and develop digital communications, including user-friendly websites, rich media, banners, micro-sites, landing pages, email campaigns, and applications components to be consistent with overall campaign components
• Raise the standard by applying the latest interaction design approaches, design templates, and processes
• Effectively interact with clients as needed in a way that positively impacts the agency relationship, including the presentation of new initiatives, concepts and campaigns
• Work under minimal supervision to lead creative
• Handle multiple tasks easily, consistently meeting or exceeding deadlines and client/agency expectations
• Consistently collaborate with team members throughout the work process to foster, facilitate, and consistently deliver great work that is on strategy, on time, and on budget
• Ensure work is on-strategy, breakthrough, appropriate for the brand, and approved by senior management

Reports To: Executive Creative Director

What You Need:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience
• Art direction ability that is rooted in the craft of design
• Knowledge of full Adobe Creative Cloud
• Demonstrable portfolio examples of strategic, intelligent creative executions for brand and retail clients
• Solid understanding and demonstration of user-centered design principles
• A drive to explore and experiment to reveal the types of experiences made possible by current and cutting-edge digital technologies
• Consistent delivery of simple and elegant design approaches to complex design problems
• Bias for active collaboration as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Improvisational, solution-driven and highly creative approach
• A deep passion for digital products and channels, constantly keeping abreast of latest trends, best practices, and competitive activity
• An understanding of web usability and information architecture

Must provide link to portfolio

All candidates must be located and authorized to work in the United States. C2 does not sponsor work visas. C2 is unable to hire contractors from these states: CA, CO, NY, DC

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