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Art Director
Aquent - Atlanta, GA
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
The Art Director will play a crucial role in the in-house agency of a leading financial client, focusing on creating award-winning digital work. This position requires a blend of strategic thinking, collaboration, and exceptional design skills across various digital platforms, including interactive banners, social media, email campaigns, and brand campaigns. The Art Director will work closely with a diverse team to ensure the client's brand is effectively represented in all creative outputs, while also managing multiple projects with changing deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Concept and execute a wide range of creative projects including national advertising campaigns, brand identity development, corporate events, email campaigns, social media, banner ads, environmental design, presentations, and website design.
- Collaborate with art directors, creative directors, graphic designers, proofreaders, animators, videographers, photographers, 3D designers, digital designers, content strategists, front-end developers, and outside vendors as required.
- Follow a creative brief and work with account managers and project managers to ensure assignments are clearly outlined and estimated.
- Understand strategic marketing initiatives and campaign strategies.
- Question client/marketing strategy when it doesn't align with market research or meet consumer needs.
- Conduct and participate in creative reviews.
- Present work to peers, managers, clients, and executive leadership.
- Follow budgets, timelines, and internal processes for each project.
- Work expeditiously on a high volume of projects with constantly changing deadlines.
- Ensure all objectives are met and that work is error-free.
- Offer new ideas for creative processes and collaboration.
- Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts or a high school diploma with 7 years of work experience in visual design and management experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of professional advertising agency experience and/or work within an in-house creative team.
Nice-to-haves
- Brand focused strategic/conceptual thinker
- Team player and collaborator
- Flexible, fast thinker—especially during critical or stressful times
- Takes initiative and is a self-starter
- Strength in multitasking and problem solving
- Ability to work independently
- Innovative and out-of-the-box conceptual thinking
- Passionate and creative, inspired by new trends and emerging technologies
- In-depth knowledge of, and experience in, creating and developing brand identity
- Excellent presentation skills
- Outstanding communication and great people skills
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Workfront)
- Proficient in UX/UI programs such as Sketch, Figma and InVision
- HTML 5, CSS and ActionScript experience a plus but not required
- Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
Benefits
- Benefits package including matching 401K
- Flexible work options (remote or in-office)
