Senior Art Director
2 weeks ago
**How you'll role**
**What you'll do**
- Understand client strategies, business problems and briefs, and translate these into creative solutions and executions
- Know and understand clients' corporate identities and needs
- Collaborate with copywriters to conceptualise and execute great ideas
- Craft and finish to the highest possible standard on artwork relating to specific jobs or campaigns
- Art direct projects so as to maintain and grow the brand's identity and stature
- Maintain brand consistency through various channels and platforms - the “title” approach
- Gain respect from the client and develop a valuable relationship with the client organisation
- Brief and art direct photographers/photoshoots
- Brief and art-direct illustrators
- Liaise with the traffic department to ensure that job deadlines are adhered to
- Brief and coordinate with the production and repro teams - especially on retouching and final mock-ups
- Review work with the Creative Director and Strategy team, followed by the Account Manager
- Deliver presentations and pitch concepts to the account manager and client
- Work within a highly charged team environment and be a support to fellow team members
- Assist the Creative Director in developing new business
- Review work and provide feedback to junior team members when required
- Establish a culture of advertising content that combines creativity and quality
Key measurables:
- Your understanding of the client's business in order to conceptualise and deliver creative solutions
- Your ability to interpret briefs and execute the designs according to client style guides and creative intelligence
- Your ability to sell your ideas with conviction both internally and externally
- Your success in mentoring and guiding the interns and junior art directors within your team
- Your efficiency in liaising effectively and clearly with the traffic team, copywriters, account managers, production, repro and suppliers
- Your ability to work within the allocated times and budget
- Your efficiency in ensuring the accurate logging of timesheets and other admin that need to take place
- Your ability to act as a brand ambassador for the agency
**What you'll need**
- A relevant degree or diploma
- 5-7 years of relevant industry experience
- To be a team player
- To provide leadership and inspiration to the juniors within the team
- An understanding of the industry in which you operate, the agency and the client business
- To build and maintain effective working relationships with external and internal interfaces
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- The ability to work under a significant amount of pressure and meet tight deadlines
- To be open-minded and have the ability to embrace change
Technical skills:
- Design, art direction, illustration, rendering, storyboarding, retouching and photo-manipulation
- Understand web/online media
- Digital art direction and creation of digital assets
- Proficiency in IT skills and related software
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