Art Director

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