Genai Art Director

6 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa OLIVER+ Full time

We are OLIVER+, part of OLIVER, the Inside Ideas Group and The Brandtech Group.

We're a global collective of creatives, technologists and production experts who create and maintain world-class content in film, CGI, motion design, digital, print and tech. We connect opportunities for clients by providing high quality solutions and capabilities to ambitious businesses all over the world.

We're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge **AI technology** to revolutionise how we create and deliver work.

Our **AI solutions** enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

**Department**:Artificial Intelligence

**Industry**:Advertising / Creative / Media Production

**Location**:Remote

**Time Zone **Required**:SAST

**Type of contract**: FTC

**Start Date**:As soon as possible

**Language**:Proficiency in English is required as we are a global business

**A Little Bit About the Role**:
Awareness of GenAI technology has exploded over the last 12 months - and with it a whole new world has opened up for creators in advertising. At Pencil we are developing tools that empower creators to do magical work for brands, and we want to ensure we take a leadership position in the quality and impact of GenAI advertising.

We're looking for GenAI Art Directors who will direct a team of Gen AI Creators, as well as use the Pencil platform themselves to deliver high quality, high performing ads to either enterprise clients or small businesses. You will likely have a team working with you and by nature of your expertise they will largely engage with you to resolve creative challenges they are coming up against and overcome the limitations of GenAI today.

You will require deep experience with GenAI tools and what they can do for creators, the advertising industry and for marketing clients - as well as the positivity, energy and lateral problem solving to explore and expand techniques to push beyond any perceived creative limitations. One key measure of your success will be your ability to inspire a team with creative solutions day-to-day. Doing this successfully will deliver impact for our clients and fame for your work, as well as make you one of the leading voices of the GenAI revolution

**Your Day-to-Day**
- Work with our Customer Success team to meet with clients, taking and refining briefs that meet client needs while best demonstrating GenAl capabilities within a systematic GenAI delivery process
- Oversee GenAl Creator(s) to deliver brief(s) through all steps including insight, concept, copy, image & video generation and final creative assembly using different GenAl models and techniques
- Where necessary, directly intervene in developing, generating or manually retouching outputs to meet quality standards across briefs
- Work with our Customer Success team to present creative outputs to clients, taking feedback and managing expectations on what GenAl can and cannot do
- Work with our Customer Success team and GenAl Creator team to structure a GenAl delivery process that allows for steps, prompts, time taken etc. to be shared transparently with clients
- Work with our Training team to actively explore, implement and explain new GenAl techniques to help our wider user base achieve high quality creative outputs
- Work with our Product & Engineering teams to test new GenAl features and provide feedback to drive platform improvements

**Your Responsibilities**
- Your KPIs will be linked to the following:

- Quality and client satisfaction of GenAI deliverables
- Performance of GenAI deliverables
- Creation of knowledge and expertise in use of GenAI and sharing of this knowledge with GenAI Creators

**Your Qualifications**
- Please be prepared to showcase your portfolio_
- Ideally 5+ years' experience in advertising creative development
- Experience with GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Jasper etc.
- Experience with GenAI techniques such as model selection & prompting
- Any experience using GenAI to deliver real-world advertising creative
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Good personal communication and proven team management skills
- Strong written English skills, allowing you to communicate effectively with clients and team
- Access to a reliable computer with an internet connection exceeding 40 Mbps
- A collaborative and team-oriented attitude with optimism about the role of GenAI in creativity

**You can find us here**:
Our values shape everything we do:
Be** **Ambitious** to succeed

Be **Imaginative** to push the boundaries of what's possible

Be **Inspirational** to do groundbreaking work

Be **always learning** **and listening** to understand

Be **Results-focused** **to exceed expectations

Be **actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist** across our community, clients and creations

OLIVER is committed to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). We actively work to create equal opport



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