Art Director jobs in Mount Vernon, NY

About Us

Art Processors are leading experience designers, partnering with the cultural and tourism organizations to attract and engage large audiences. We combine the most inventive creative and technical skills to design compelling exhibitions, attractions, and places.

Art Processors employs 100 people across the United States and Australia. Our clients include leading museums and visitor attractions in the US and Asia Pacific region, which collectively attract around 20 million visitors annually.

Art Processors was recently recognized as one of the top ten places to work in the 2023 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards.

A bit about the role…

We are looking for a Director, Exhibition Design (USA) to join our growing design practice as part of our Creative Services team. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to lead the spatial design of major development projects within cultural institutions and visitor attractions. You'll be responsible for leading and mentoring the Exhibition Design discipline team with a combination of bold thinking and pragmatic decision making. In addition to directing our design work in this space, you'll also be responsible for performing creative direction to help secure important new work and deliver high quality outcomes for our cultural and tourism sector clients.

This role will suit a person who is passionate about creating meaningful, multisensory cultural experiences that seamlessly weave together people, place, content and state-of-the-art technology. You will promote a culture of ambition and creative courage, working to develop a thoughtful environment where designers and clients find the courage to do groundbreaking work.

This role is able to be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States, although New York based candidates will be able to work from our co-working space in a hybrid capacity.

About You

• Demonstrated experience planning and executing a wide variety of design, creative, and technical large scale projects
• Experience directing, envisioning, planning and executing experiential, spatial and exhibition design in museums and public spaces
• A passionate people leader who leads by example and coaches and mentors with empathy and enthusiasm
• A confident presenter and facilitator, with experience supporting business development activities, which includes ability to scope physical design and fabrication accurately
• Thrives in end to end project environments, and enjoys the early stage creative thinking and concept development stage as much as the execution and installation phases
• Demonstrated experience developing and testing new ideas and experimenting with new tools, proactively solving problems that may arise, using imagination and unique vision
• Demonstrated experience working with a global, remote-team, across time zones and cultures. This role will be focused on US based projects, but some overlap will be required with our Australian based team members

What we offer

We promote a friendly, human work environment, providing you with the support, tools and resources to flourish in your role. You'll be able to draw on the support of a widely experienced team while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in your craft and delivering unique experiences to some of the most innovative institutions in the world.

In addition to the above, you'll be able to:

• Work flexibly with access to a range of flexible work arrangements, which includes the ability to work remotely full-time. New York based candidates will have the option to work from our co-working space in New York
• Receive health insurance and 401(K) contributions
• Choice of company laptop (PC or Mac)
• Receive financial support to set up your home office
• Receive fortnightly financial allowances if working in a remote capacity
• Have access to generous paid leave and parental leave policies. Our leave offering includes volunteer leave, life leave, back up carers leave, menopause leave, grandparents leave, flexible public holidays…too many to mention!
• Have access to a range of benefits which support your well-being (e.g. Headspace, Health Coaching, Classpass)
• Have access to an annual cultural institution stipend and paid subscriptions to Apple Music or Spotify
• Have access to materials and services provided by our partners, including Circle In and PFLAG
• Share the experiences we create with your friends and family!

At Art Processors, we don't just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our clients. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

How to Apply

If you're excited by the opportunity to bring your design and leadership capabilities to contribute to the next phase of our team's evolution, we'd love to hear from you. The best way to do this is to apply via the link provided with your CV and folio, and we'll be in touch once we've reviewed your application.

Base Salary Range: USD 145-180K

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant