Art Director jobs in Ellicott City, MD

Thank you for your interest in our Art Director position!

As the Art Director, you will bring your expertise in creating concepts, and developing and executing direct-response campaigns for the amazing nonprofits that we support. You are passionate about marrying great, mission-driven ideas with effective nonprofit and direct best practices — and mentoring to grow talent in Creative.

Edge Direct, a division of Moore, is a social impact agency committed to doing good by driving donors, dollars, engagement, and brand loyalty for leading non-profit organizations. Leveraging core competencies in strategy, analytics, and marketing, we develop insight-driven multichannel campaigns and experiences to create impact for meaningful causes. To do this, we need you!

Moore is an innovation led company of 5,000 people and the largest marketing, data and fundraising company in North America serving the nonprofit industry. Some of our clients include Shriners Children’s, Stand Up 2 Cancer, SPCA International, March of Dimes and Operation Smile. We combine our strength in technology and unmatched industry expertise to provide clients with strategy, creativity, production, media, data, response management and analytic services.

For more information about Edge Direct and Moore, please visit www.wearemoore.com

In this role you will:

• Create concepts that generate a desired goal: donations, awareness, engagement, and reactivation.
• Collaborate with creative directors and other agency partners to conceptualize, develop and execute fully integrated direct-response campaigns (direct mail, email, newsletters, digital display, social).
• Mentor and support junior designers.
• Review and approve designs, artwork, photography, and graphics developed by other team members.
• Manage client style guides and standards.
• Identify and elevate opportunities for improvement of creative art direction.
• Develop and present creative recommendations.

What we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5-8 years of in-house or agency experience as a designer/art director (fundraising knowledge preferred).
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative suite.
• A strong creative vision and design skills across different channels (animation skills are a plus).
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and thrive under pressure.
• Experience working across teams and departments with collaborative, amiable approach.
• Prior project management software experience (Workfront is a plus).
• Organized and self-sufficient, managing workloads and timelines across multiple clients.
• Comfortable and effective developing decks and pitching presentations that sell our creative strategy.
• A conceptual innovator who develops and oversees campaign design across channels.

We are unable to provide employment sponsorship.

Our Benefits:

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and paid time off so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Moore is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.