Art Director

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

Role: Summary:

As an Art Director, you will help curate and design content to showcase some of the world’s best creative talent in a digital arena with a natural curiosity for all things pop culture and enjoys immersing themselves in global trends. You should have a strong understanding of digital and social space, the design and production requirements. You’ll need to be an active collaborator with internal partners, client creatives, writers, freelancers and influencers. You’ll regularly review work with Creative Directors on the client side to get feedback on direction, and to make sure the work is on brief and appropriate for the brand. You’ll also help present your work to executive staff members within the company.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Brand guardianship, ownership of the client’s identity and brand voice
• Maintain creative standards with awareness of country and regional nuances
• Hands-on design / art direction, follow through to the production of the deliverables, with a deep understanding of the working processes
• Ability to effectively lead and motivate a small creative studio, managing outputs and negotiating priorities for the team
• Effective communicator, value interpersonal relationships, and also have exceptional client service skills

Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years working within Design role, ideally within advertising, design agencies or in-house creative team
• An ability to communicate with consumers via compelling, creative story telling
• Broad background in design and creative that spans across all mediums
• Experience with localisation and transcreation of master assets
• Strong craft and problem solving skills
• Understanding of platform-first creative requirements
• Great presentation skills. The ability to clearly explain and defend your work in meetings and reviews
• You should be an enthusiastic collaborator, and be open to other people’s ideas. But at the same time, you need to show initiative and have accountability for the stories you’re telling
• Have a keen understanding of local market creative and cultural nuances
• An ability to work with global teams, across time zones, date lines and traditional
• Strong communicator with excellent English skills

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.