Art Director

8 hours ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa IMA Full time

IMA is a creative agency that builds brands people want to be part of. We are looking for an imaginative and proactive Art Director to join our Studio and Production team. In this role, you will help produce creative campaigns and ensure ideas are executed at the highest level of art direction to deliver against set KPIs.

If you are a collaborative team player with a relentless desire to originate industry-leading design solutions and a positive, can-do attitude, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Get From Us

  • A chance to develop your career within an award-winning, people-first creative agency
  • Member of the Institute of Practitioners for Advertising
  • Access to Paymenow and Payjoy to aid with financial wellbeing
  • Enrolment into Medical Aid and Medical Insurance Gap Cover
  • Disability cover
  • The chance to become a part of a growing studio
  • Global office locations
  • Group life cover

The role
As an Art Director, you will report to the Creative Director. You will be responsible for creating art direction and ideas that are right for the specific channel they are on. You will own both internal and client relationships, ensuring work is on track and that we are consistently delivering high-quality creative content.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Planning and creating engaging content by showing a raft of imaginative ideas
  • Taking the lead with presentations and present-backs to clients
  • Suggesting and producing engaging copy for a variety of formats and platforms
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with immediate teams, other agency departments, and external partners
  • Supporting senior team members to develop and sell creative campaigns effectively to clients
  • Keeping a pulse on new trends and creative opportunities to ensure our clients stay ahead

What We're Looking For

  • Previous agency experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • A basic knowledge of all media channels, and a willingness to learn about evolving digital marketing areas
  • The ability to take the lead on creative decisions while keeping the Creative Director informed
  • A team player who acts with integrity, honesty, loyalty, and fairness
  • Someone who is flexible to change and thrives in a creative, fast-paced environment

Our values at IMA
We're curious. We challenge. We commit.

These principles shape how we work — with each other, with clients, and with the world.

Apply now
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. If this Art Director role sounds like a fit, we'd love to hear from you.

Informed by human behaviour. Fuelled by creativity. Connected by data, media and digital. We are IMA.

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