What are the responsibilities and job description for the Art Director position at Visa?
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
Job Description
Visa’s internal creative agency, Ad Hock, is seeking an Art Director to help craft, develop, and deliver marketing assets from brief to execution. Our clients and partners include the NFL, FIFA, the Olympics, and a number of leading banks, merchants, and FinTechs. You could be designing a tradeshow booth one day and building content for the Super Bowl the next. Really.
You’ll be joining a growing team of nimble creatives who produce creative marketing assets of all shapes and sizes. From digital, social, OOH, email, landing page, whitepapers, and everything in-between. The ideal candidate is one-part dreamer and two-part doer. You can conceptualize truly outrageous ideas but have the strategic skills to ground your concepts within the brief and brand requirements. You’ve got strong design skills, a passion for creating beautiful work, and a desire to constantly be improving.
Your team will be based in Visa’s San Francisco office.
Responsibilities:
- You will create compelling B2B & B2C marketing assets while considering the needs of multiple stakeholders and working cross-functionally to solve issues
- You will collaborate with teams of creatives, marketers, external agencies, and internal stakeholders to deliver marketing assets on-time, on-budget and on-point
- You will brainstorm creative solutions and deliver thoughtful creative that exceeds client objectives
- You will work within existing brand elements to develop original, on-brand, results-driven creative
- Be a creative subject matter expert, guiding clients through best practices and specific design elements
Looking for:
- Strategic thinker and problem solver focused on results who approaches any challenge with thoughtfulness, drive and appropriate urgency
- Uses good judgment and communicates effectively
- A passion for solving marketing challenges and design conundrums
- A desire to learn and grow within our organization
- Comfortable with creative direction and a variety of projects at all levels
- Appreciation for data and how it can drive bigger thinking and creativity
- Positive relationship management skills and ability to influence decision makers
- Ability to work efficiently on quick timelines while still maintaining high standards of quality and independence on projects when timelines are less tight
- Ability and desire to work directly with campaign leads, legal, and creative team to interpret briefs, identify insight gaps & build strategic frameworks for campaigns of all sizes
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 4 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA)
- A proven track record of working with industry-leading clients and brands on a variety of major, 360-degree marketing projects and campaigns
- A strategic understanding of social media and digital marketing best practices
- Strong project management skills and experience coordinating cross functional, end-to-end projects that include a high-level of detail
- Collaborative and “hands-on” teammate who builds strong relationships internally and externally, and works well under pressure, thriving under tight deadlines
- Positive relationship management skills and ability to influence decision makers both internally and externally
- Experience weaving ideas across all mediums from digital to OOH to TV and print
- Proficiency in Office & Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as MS PowerPoint and Excel.
- Experience in the financial sector or FinTech companies welcome but not necessary
- Advertising/Design Awards, a bonus
MANDATORY: All applicants must submit an online portfolio of work to be considered for this role.
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
