We're looking for an Digital Art Director / Senior Visual Designer to join a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary creative agency working with leading retail and consumer brands.
This is an opportunity for a conceptual, design-led creative who wants to remain close to the work while taking on greater responsibility for creative thinking, art direction, client relationships, and the quality of work across channels .
You'll work across brand, retail and marketing communications, helping take projects from the initial business challenge and creative brief through concept development, art direction and execution.
Just as importantly, this is a role with significant room to grow. We're looking for someone who can become an increasingly important creative leader within the business over time.
What You'll Be Doing
Develop strong creative concepts and visual ideas in response to client and business challenges.
Translate strategy and creative briefs into compelling creative platforms and executions.
Establish the art direction, visual language and messaging hierarchy for integrated campaigns and programs.
Provide creative direction across retail, digital, social, email, interactive and in-store experiences .
Remain hands-on in the work, contributing directly to design and creative development when needed.
Ensure creative ideas translate consistently across multiple channels and formats.
Balance brand-building and commercial objectives , creating work that is both visually strong and effective.
Present creative thinking, concepts and rationale to clients and internal teams.
Provide thoughtful feedback and direction to designers, freelancers and other creative partners.
Collaborate with account, strategy and production partners to move work from brief through execution.
Help maintain a high standard of creative quality across both major brand initiatives and high-volume marketing communications.
Contribute to the continued evolution of the studio's creative capabilities and ways of working.
What We're Looking For
You're a senior creative who understands that great work starts before the design execution begins .
You can take a business or marketing challenge, think strategically about the audience and objective, develop the creative idea, and then determine how that idea should come to life visually.
Ideally, you bring:
Significant progressive experience in design, art direction and integrated creative .
A strong foundation in graphic design and exceptional visual judgment.
Strong conceptual creative ability .
Experience developing creative from strategy and brief through final execution.
Experience across a mix of brand, retail and marketing communications .
Strong understanding of digital channels, including social, paid media, email and web.
Experience adapting creative ideas across both digital and physical environments.
Strong understanding of typography, imagery, composition, messaging hierarchy and brand systems.
Ability to maintain brand standards while producing promotional and sales-driven creative.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Confidence discussing creative rationale with clients and senior stakeholders.
Commercial judgment and an understanding that creative decisions need to support broader business objectives.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a small multidisciplinary team.
Motion, Video & Emerging Creative
Experience directing or creating work across motion and video would be highly valuable.
Additional experience in areas such as the following would be considered an asset:
Motion design
Video editing
On-set production
Creative direction for photo/video shoots
Generative AI and emerging creative tools
You don't need to personally execute every discipline. More important is the ability to develop the idea and provide strong creative direction to the specialists bringing it to life.
You should have a portfolio that demonstrates both exceptional visual craft and the…