Art Director

5 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Crayon Full time

**How you'll role**

As the Art Director, you will be responsible for designing, conceptualising and executing high-quality creative solutions for clients, taking the strategy into account and working within an allocated time and budget. You will be expected to understand client strategies, business problems and briefs, and translate these into creative solutions and executions, within the stipulated time frames and budgets. This job requires someone with a love for sports, brand experiences and events where they will be dealing with the conceptualising of campaigns that stretch across the entire marketing spectrum with a constant focus on content creation, digital marketing and social media campaigns.

**What you'll do**
- Translate client strategies, business problems and briefs into creative solutions and executions
- Spend time to know and understand clients' corporate identities and needs
- Collaborate with account management/client service team, junior art director, designer and content producer to conceptualise and execute great ideas
- Craft and finish to the highest possible standard on artwork relating to specific jobs or campaigns
- Maintain brand consistency through various channels and platforms
- Build strong relationships with key clients
- Brief and art direct photographers/photoshoots and video shoots
- Brief and art-direct illustrators
- Liaise with the client service team to ensure that job deadlines are adhered to and client expectations are met
- Deliver presentations and pitch concepts to the account management team and client
- Work within a highly charged team environment and be a support to fellow team members
- Review work and provide feedback to junior team members (when required)

Senior
- Art direct projects so as to maintain and grow the brand's identity and stature
- Manage external suppliers (like extra designers)
- Brief and coordinate with the production teams
- Review work from the designer, Junior Art Director, content producer and other external contractors, followed by the client service sign off

Junior
- Liaise with the Account Managers to ensure that job deadlines are adhered to
- Brief and coordinate with the production and repro teams
- Review work from the designer and other external contractors, followed by the Account Management sign-off

**What you'll need**
- A relevant degree or diploma
- Strong design ability is an essential
- To be able to work together with a team
- To have 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
- To possess excellent communication and presentation skills
- The ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- To be open-minded and have the ability to embrace change

Senior
- 5-7 years of relevant industry experience
- To provide leadership and inspiration to the juniors within the team
- Technical skills include:

- Design and art direction, with a good understanding of illustration
- Rendering
- Storyboarding
- Retouching and photo-manipulation

Junior
- 2-4 years of relevant industry experience
- To be open-minded and have the ability to embrace change
- Technical skills:

- Design, basic animation
- Art direction
- Basic video editing (is a bonus)
- Storyboarding
- Retouching and photo manipulation
- Understand web/online media direct photoshoots


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