Art Director

Nirvana Technology (nirvana.tech) is a financial technology startup in stealth mode with a launch date of in the first half of 2022. We are building a digital service featuring a credit card – plus checking, savings and installment loan features – combined into a single all-purpose primary account.
Do you want to be part of a founding marketing team at a FinTech start-up that's going to break all the molds? PayPal and Playstation veterans are about to launch a product that will bring financial freedom to the people who need it most.
We're already fully funded, and you can get in on the ground floor stock option plan, be part of building our organization, and influencing our company's vision. It is really a dream opportunity for someone looking for an opportunity to create, take risks, learn and have an immediate impact. Sounds a little like Nirvana.
If you are able to envision, articulate, execute, and measure out-of-the-box big ideas, leverage strategic partnerships, and activate influencer channels to create community, propel growth, and bring new eyeballs to a first-of-its-kind fintech platform, then we want to meet you!
What do many recent college graduates, immigrants and gig workers have in common? They often get turned down for credit cards. In fact, 50% of Americans get rejected. And without credit, they can't get auto and home loans, apartment rentals, insurance coverage and other life necessities. These are hard-working Americans who need your help.
Nirvana's goal is simple but massive: we're giving every American a better way to build credit. Plus, we're doing it with no fees, all while providing control over cashflow.
Wanna help? We're looking for an Art Director (hire #1 on the Art side) to join the team and help with our mission.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• This part should be no surprise: Our AD is responsible for managing their creative projects, timelines and communications surrounding projects. Plus, work collaborate with our AOR. The individual should have a proven track record in all mediums, including: digital, social media, print, card packaging, informing card design, email and visual storytelling in presentations. This position reports directly to the Director, Brand Creative and will work closely with the CEO and CMO. You will be our second Creative team member - so roll up your sleeves, bucko!

What You'll Bring:

• Stop, collaborate and listen: Work with the CMO, Director, Brand Creative, Marketing Automation Lead, Strategist and AOR on a daily basis to lead creative initiatives (which will one day be on a global scale).
• Be ready to create like crazy: We want doers - not directors. You'll wear many fun hats which come with start-up life:
• Create static and animated assets for multiple channels, including: print, landing pages, email, in-app designs and notifications, social media, direct mail, card packaging. PPT templates etc.
• Develop asset templates and design standards to enhance our marketing content across multiple platforms.
• Establish and maintain an asset library.
• Evolve and buildout brand guidelines, for all mediums, as we create them.
• Concept with the Director, Brand Creative (who will be your copy counterpart).

• Be a teacher: Provide brand expertise and leadership in guiding the (soon to be built-out) Creative team, partners and internal teams in developing strategic creative solutions that meet business objectives and measurement goals. We want brand nerds with a high-level of accountability.
• Be an artist: Know what to do with a blank page. Provide brand expertise to guide projects and develop creative solutions that meet business goals in an "I wish I thought of that" kind of way.
• Be a reader: Understand, help influence and check what the writers put on the page to help QC and optimize creative.
• Be a team player: No 'assembly-line workers' wanted; we want a proactive problem solver who can apply strategy, data, business goals and critical thinking to all portions of the business (brand, product, marketing, strategy, media buying/planning); not just to the creative.

Requirements

• 5 years of Art Director experience (ad agency experience preferred)
• Show us some cool stuff you've concepted in the past
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite
• High level of strategic and conceptual thinking with the ability to execute
• Demonstrate proactive attitude, diplomacy skills, solve problems and put out fires
• Ability to speak in HTML; basic code proficiency

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building a team/department
• Startup experience
• Credit card, money category, FinTech experience
• Figma, Webflow, Pardot, Iterable, Braze, Google forms proficiency
• Ability to edit video (Premiere) is a plus

Essential Functions

• Frequent computer and phone use
• Frequent verbal and written communications
• Frequent snack breaks
• Frequent pets* (*HR clarification: there's a Nirvana office dog which you can choose to pet, otherwise we can provide PATS on the back, as deserved)
• Problem solving
• Analyze and interpret data to create visuals/design systems

If you're ready to help people build the stable life they deserve, apply for the Art Director role, today.
Should you wish to learn more go ahead and apply for the position and we'll be in touch! We appreciate your interest in Nirvana.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.

Job Type: Full-time