What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Art Director position at Collier Simon?
We’re looking for a hands-on Sr. Art Director who is equal parts strategic thinker and visual maker; a conceptual problem-solver; and innate leader able to guide projects from start to finish.
As a full-service creative agency, we pride ourselves on our ability to solve our partners’ challenges across the entire marketing funnel. Thus, we’re looking for someone who has
- extensive brand building and rebranding experience
- experience leading the visual strategy for campaigns that exist in all parts of the funnel, from big digital and real world canvases and video, to site, mobile, paid social and email
- the ability and desire to lead and inspire a team
What You Will Be Doing:
- Develop and execute brand identity, visual architecture and logo exploration work for our brand strategy and brand redesign projects
- Creating design systems and helping rationalize and sell them in
- Develop creative concepts for high-level, integrated brand initiatives and campaigns that crystallize the strategic insight and map back to business objectives
- Conceptualize and design campaigns and executions across all existing and emerging media, whether that’s a TV spot, a Snapchat lens or an email campaign
- 50% leading, ideating and directing an awesome team, and 50% hands-on designing, doing, and making hands-on
- Present creative work to account and creative leads, as well as directly to clients
- Expertly managing the creative process– keep things flowing smoothly, continually reviewing and optimizing
What skills, qualities and experience we're looking for:
- 7 years of experience in advertising (or in-house with a brand) with a portfolio that spans the marketing funnel (including branding / rebranding work) and demonstrates conceptual thinking and creative problem solving
- Strong understanding of social / digital, and paid media industry trends and developments
- Superior communication and presentation skills
- Hands-on ability to create work with a high level of fit and finish
- Innate ability to be organized and multi-task across a wide variety of clients and projects
- Sense of humor and egoless ownership of projects
- Ability to work fast and with all kinds of budgets
- Thrive in a fiercely collaborative, silo-free environment
Details:
This job is currently a remote position. However, we are prioritizing candidates in Pacific Standard time zone.
We're looking to fill this position ASAP and are open to freelance-to-hire arrangements.
