Senior Art Director

Do you want to work in a cool, fast-growing beauty company?

Are you super organized, proactive and ambitious? 

If this sounds like you, here’s the job for you!

amika is looking for a Senior Art Director to join our collaborative in-house creative team, who will translate marketing and branding strategies into innovative campaigns and storytelling opportunities. You will partner with the Executive Creative Director & Creative Operations Director to lead a talented team of Creatives to produce effective engaging content and design work that will speak to a widening audience. Opportunity for a content creation-fluent, visionary creative and team leader with an audience-first mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop innovative content for a brand that stands for fun, inclusivity and clean
• Maintain brand differentiation by staying true to the brand values and strategy yet staying up to date and infusing the work with beauty, fashion, music, art and other cultural movements. In other words, know who we are but keep it fresh.
• Maintain a high level of design and creative excellence as well as a high level of consistency across all brand touchpoints from digital to in-store
• Work closely with the In-House Creative team, Brand Marketing team and Ecomm/Digital Advertising team to create content that proves to be effective and engaging
• Create content with an understanding of the Marketing funnel. Use data and metrics to inform the creative work and pivot when needed. Continually monitor effectiveness of campaigns and optimize bringing along all key stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• Stay on top of consumer and industry insights as well as market intelligence
• Develop direct reports: challenge them to create their best work, motivate, mentor, assist in goal setting, provide development opportunities and performance feedback
• Lead with positivity. Uphold our culture of teamwork and collaboration
• Deliver work in budget and on time
• Position reports directly into the Director of Creative Operations

Desired Qualifications

• Beauty / fashion experience is strongly preferred, although open to other backgrounds. Should have knowledge of the DTC space & diversified book demonstrating a unique/differentiated/elevated/boutique point of view
• Keen aesthetic sensibilities and a talent for building desire around a brand or product through creative content
• A robust knowledge of brand systems, typography, layout. A rich cultural library both current and historical from which to draw inspiration and to teach and inspire a young team of Creatives
• Proven experience creating compelling content and storytelling on social media
• An audience-first mindset. Ability to translate consumer research and insights into effective creative strategies and designs
• Must genuinely enjoy working with others and collaborating
• Experience in building, leading and motivating a team to create their best work by nurturing, inspiring and challenging

The Icing on the Cake

• Fitness and Wellness program with ClassPass Corporate and weekly wellness hour
• Medical, vision, and dental plans to keep you feeling your best
• Vacation time and sick days to refresh and relax
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Commuter Pre-Tax Benefit Program
• When at the office, free snacks, coffee and drinks, including a yummy breakfast selection to get your day started
• A generous product allowance and employee discount to keep your hair happy and smelling great!

So why should you work with us?

Heat Makes Sense, Inc. is a fast-growing hair care and tool manufacturer, with our headquarters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and distribution in Pennsauken, NJ. We create fun, performance-driven products and tools for professional stylists and consumers since 2009. Our products are carried by salon professionals and retailers worldwide. You have seen amika in Birchbox, Sephora and in your high-end salons (www.loveamika.com) and you’ve seen Eva NYC in Costco, Target and Urban Outfitters (www.eva-nyc.com). We owe a lot of our success to our office culture and embracing a tight-knit work environment.

Unlike most companies, we create everything in-house. Our brands and Product development take an idea for a tool or shampoo and creates versions for internal testing (employee participation encouraged!). Our amazingly innovative design studio to creates our unique packaging and marketing materials and our operations produces and distributes the new products. From there, marketing, sales and ecommerce take the reins to tell the world. All along the way, we have our executives, finance and HR/Admin departments to make sure the company itself is running smoothly.  Every employee has an impact on the company, which inspires our collaborative culture.

Over the years we have defined our core values as inclusivity, sustainability, wellness and community engagement in our beautiful Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond. As we implement new processes and procedures, we rely on feedback and input from our employees to ensure every employee feels welcomed, safe and valued. We aim to practice what we preach and believe that our culture contributes to our success.

Here are just a few elements of our culture that you can look forward to:

• An inclusive environment amplifies our employees’ voices in fundamental conversations
• A staff of ambitious people who want to set roots down with us and advance in their career
• Ongoing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion training
• Monthly wellness events like yoga, meditation and guest speakers
• Striving towards an environment where you can be free to be yourself
• Rooftop BBQ’s in the summer and unforgettable holiday parties
• Off-site volunteer and mentorship opportunities with various NYC-based organizations
• A safe space to let your ideas be heard and truly make an impact in the type of day-to-day you have always wanted
• Sustainability initiatives like composting, recycling and clean energy
• Shared the same core values among staff and who are passionate about what they do

Here are some quotes from real employees to tell you about who we are:

• “Great products, great ideas, fun environment, great employees, capable and caring management, and endless opportunities for growth and development.”
• “A warm and encouraging atmosphere.”
• “Relationships between co-workers are extremely important here, which makes the overall experience of going to work very pleasant.”
• “Hard work is recognized.”
• “I feel lucky to be a part of a brand that is on an upward path—it is a very exciting time.”
• “Lots of fun events where you spend time and get to know coworkers outside the office, overall my team felt like a family, and that’s rare in the workplace.”
• “Super supportive management that really lets you have a voice and listens to your input and ideas.”

Ready to apply?

Please click the link that will bring you to our careers page through Greenhouse. Submit a cover letter describing yourself and why you’d be the perfect fit along with your resume.