About This Role
This hands-on leadership role is for an Art Director to shape the creative direction across multiple brands, campaigns, pitches, and productions. The successful candidate will remain involved with the actual design work, developing ideas, designing, presenting, art directing shoots, and guiding designers and interns. It suits an existing Art Director, or a strong Senior Designer or Junior Art Director ready to step up and take greater creative ownership.
Responsibilities
- Develop creative concepts and visual directions across social content, campaigns, activations, and pitches
- Design key visuals, social content, presentation decks, storyboards, and other creative materials when needed
- Turn strategies and briefs into ideas that are visually strong, social-first, and practical to execute
- Take creative projects from ideation and design through production and final delivery
- Oversee creative projects from ideation and design through production and final delivery
- Review creative work and provide clear direction and feedback to designers and interns
- Present and explain creative concepts confidently to internal teams and clients
- Art direct photo and video shoots, from pre-production planning to on-set execution
- Work closely with social, strategy, clients, and production partners to bring ideas to life
- Help strengthen the team’s creative standards, workflows, and ways of working as the company grows
- Explore how AIGC and emerging creative tools can improve ideation, experimentation, and execution while maintaining strong creative judgment and craft
Requirements
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in design, advertising, digital, or social media
- Agency experience is preferred
- A strong portfolio demonstrating visual craft, conceptual thinking, and social-first work
- Strong foundations in design, branding, typography, and visual storytelling
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- Able to lead the thinking while remaining hands-on with design and execution
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats and adapting across different projects and creative needs
- Curious and open to exploring AIGC as part of the creative process without relying on it as a substitute for original thinking and design fundamentals
- Confident in leading projects, presenting ideas, and guiding junior creatives
- Strategic yet hands-on, with the ability to balance creative ambition and practical execution
- Strong command of English and able to read and understand written Chinese, as the role involves working on Chinese language content
- Organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment