Senior Art Director

We help grow many of the world's most iconic brands at Leo Burnett. We help grow even more of the world's most talented people. You'll find at Leo Burnett an agency built on ideas and dependent upon the people behind them. A culture that doesn't just respect creativity but cherishes it. And a community where the path you choose is your own, the places you can go limitless.

Today, Leo Burnett is one of the most awarded creative networks in the world. We believe creativity has the power to transform human behavior, and we use ours to help our clients' brands discover their "human purpose" and play meaningful, active roles in people's lives.

Job Description

The Senior Art Director, Art is responsible for leading the creative work. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work.

• Works with the CD / ACD to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.

• Helps develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration

• Promote a culture of creative quality and accountability and ensure creative deliverables meet both our clients’ expectations and our own standards of excellence

• Demonstrates to clients that an understanding of their marketing challenges and is responsive to their strategic needs in proposing creative solutions.

• Trains new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and works with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.

• Works with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.

• Develops and evaluates creative concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.

• Sets high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique.

• Leads the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.

• Designing comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of agency experience with primarily an Art background

• Knowledge of existent and future craft trends according to industry standards

• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment

• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically

• The ability to work collaboratively with account management

• Excellent presentation skills

• Successful experience in managing creatives

• The availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction

• Demonstrated experience in events (client/brand)

• Understanding of consumer behaviours and industry trends

• Core Skills: Ideas, Brand, Awards and strong skillsets on all existent Craft tools