Job Order: 5403
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Senior Art Director
Location: Ohio
Company Summary:
A design firm.
Description:
Overview:
- As lead art team member, takes responsibility for concept, design, presentation, execution, and production of all projects for assigned accounts
- Provides supervision, mentorship, guidance, and support to Core Team Brand Art Directors
- Contributes to strength of agency- client relationship by nurturing relationship with client through communication, interaction and great work
- Brand "owner" at the Group Art level
- Is responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, developing, monitoring, and encouraging performance in other Art Directors on the Core Team
- Demonstrates ownership of assigned brand by continually coming up with new ideas proactively
- Partners with Brand Copywriter and Group Copy Supervisor on brand and concept development
- Collaborates with Creative, Account Services, Creative Services, and extended team members during creative development
- Provides mentorship, guidance, and support to other Brand Art Directors within the group
- Provides art direction to empower Studio Designers, photographers, illustrators, and other external collaborators, such as broadcast producers and directors
- As Brand Group Art Supervisor, is responsible for ensuring that visual Brand mandatories and consistencies are maintained on-going.
- Acts as a hands-on Art Director
- Presents and sells ideas internally and to clients
- Keeps up to date with trends in branding, marketing, advertising, and related communications industries
- Keeps up to date with trends within the industries specific to assigned accounts
- Is knowledgeable about products and services specific to assigned accounts
- Is willing to help Brand Art Directors by handling layout revisions (and tasks normally handled by Art Directors) during high volume periods
- Proficiency in critical graphic software-primarily QuarkXpress, Freehand, Illustrator, and PhotoShop
- Ability to manage the creative process, workflow, workload, and resources among art group
- Conceptual Creativity: Ability to think in abstract terms; can make connections between unrelated notions; can formulate innovative ideas where others can not; seen as original and value-added in brainstorming sessions
- Understanding and Implementing Direction: Can understand creative direction based on objectives and executes creative work effectively. Communicates workload appropriately based on skill sets and talents; communicates well with others on workload issues & needs, the progress of work and results
- Industry Application: Picks up on technical things quickly; is good at learning new industry, company, product, and/or technical knowledge developments of the client’s business as well as the agency business; has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment
