Art Director

About This Role

This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. This role requires more than strong creative direction; it seeks an expert-level graphic designer with significant print production experience and the ability to develop creative across digital, video, motion graphics, social media, broadcast, environmental, and experiential platforms. The Art Director must be able to lead creatively while remaining hands-on when needed, taking ownership of the creative function across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Build strong working relationships across all departments
• Understand each department's goals, priorities, audiences, and creative needs
• Take ownership of projects from concept through completion
• Establish creative direction rather than waiting for direction
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve creative
• Work closely with leadership and project management to establish priorities
• Provide creative direction and feedback to designers, freelancers, photographers, videographers, animators, and production partners
• Maintain a consistently high creative standard across the organization
• Develop systems, templates, brand standards, and processes that improve efficiency and consistency
• Lead creative direction across Yellow Flag Productions
• Develop integrated campaign concepts
• Personally execute high-level graphic design
• Develop brand identities and visual systems
• Oversee professional print production
• Create print, digital, social, presentation, environmental, and experiential creative
• Develop concepts for motion graphics, animation, video, and broadcast
• Collaborate with web, social, video production, photography, project management, sales, account services, and leadership
• Present creative concepts and explain creative decisions
• Review and improve the work of other creatives
• Manage multiple projects and priorities
• Maintain brand consistency
• Identify opportunities to improve creative quality and processes
• Drive projects through final completion

Requirements

• Expert-level graphic design ability
• Exceptional skills in Adobe Illustrator
• Exceptional skills in Adobe InDesign
• Exceptional skills in Adobe Photoshop
• Exceptional skills in Typography
• Exceptional skills in Layout and composition
• Exceptional skills in Branding and visual identity
• Exceptional skills in Advertising
• Exceptional skills in Publication design