About This Role
This Art Director role is for a conceptual thinker and hands-on creative with strong visual instincts and the craft to turn big ideas into brilliant work across multiple channels. The position involves taking a brief from the initial idea through to execution, developing brand platforms, creating social-first ideas, shaping customer campaigns, and bringing complex B2B propositions to life. The team has recently won an exciting new client spanning B2B and B2C, offering a significant creative opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Take a brief from the first spark of an idea through to execution across multiple channels
- Develop brand platforms
- Create social-first ideas
- Shape customer campaigns
- Find compelling ways to bring complex B2B propositions to life
- Work alongside Art Directors, designers, copywriters, and Creative Directors
- Collaborate closely while confidently owning your own briefs
- Find the idea, push it further, and sell it in with a clear point of view
- Concept with a copywriter
- Craft a layout
- Build a compelling deck
- Define the visual expression of an idea
- Get hands-on to make the work brilliant
Requirements
- Take a brief, find a distinctive way into it, and develop it into a compelling creative response
- Demonstrate strong art direction and design craft in your portfolio, showing conceptual thinking, not just beautiful execution
- Think across channels, seeing social, CRM, digital, content, design, and campaign as different expressions of an idea
- Flex between consumer and business audiences, finding creatively interesting ways to engage both
- Own the work, taking responsibility for a brief while knowing when collaboration will make the idea stronger
- Articulate and sell your thinking, from an informal creative conversation to a polished client presentation
- Value creative partnership and actively seek out collaboration with copywriters from the beginning
- Push rather than settle, being comfortable giving and receiving feedback to make the work better
- Know how to use Gen AI creatively and intelligently, understanding where it can accelerate ideation, development, and execution, and where human imagination, judgment, and craft need to lead
- Be highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
Benefits
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
- Paid Wellbeing Day
- Flexible bank holidays to honour cultural or religious observances
- Option to buy or carry over up to 5 extra days of holiday
- Smart Working with up to 40% from home
- After 12 months, the option to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- 3 extra days for your wedding/honeymoon
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
- Corporate Medical Cash Plan
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Tax-efficient payroll giving to your favourite charities
- Funding for professional qualifications
- Monthly Employee of the Month awards (£250 bonus)
- Referral bonuses of up to £1,500
- Regular Wellbeing Workshops
- 30+ Wellbeing Champions
- Paid Volunteer Day
- Online perks platform with discounts on top brands, days out, and gym memberships
Application Process
About the Company
ITG's creative teams help brands find and express what matters most to their customers. They work across brand, campaign, content, and customer communications, combining creativity, craft, data, and technology to make work that connects.
