Conceptual Art Director

We are looking for 3 Art Directors in different levels (Junior, Mid and Senior) to join our team

As an Art Director, you are responsible for crafting innovating ideas and impactful designs, using visual styles to bring life to bold creative ideas, conceptual development and crafted storytelling across channels at a senior-level.

Skills Required:

An M&C Art Director must possess the following skills in order to succeed:

Conceptual Thinking:

• Not only do you bring brave, new and diverse thoughts to brainstorms, but you come up with strong integrated thinking.
• You understand the brand's overall strategy and you are able to develop work that answers to this.
• You may also need to facilitate brainstorms where you are able to build on other's ideas and come to solutions quicker.
• You listen and take on board diverse viewpoints and encourage different viewpoints in the team.

Execution:

• Your experience now means that you must be able to produce work faster and you should by now have mastered the art of composing the right visual look and feel, in the right visual style to communicate the concept.
• You are also well versed in the different production needs required to deliver on a job and can brief any external production house on the vision for your execution.

Presentation:

• You confidently present internally and externally to senior clients without the CD being there.
• You will need to be able to have a meaningful conversation with clients around the strategic direction of their brand and the brands' visual persona and present creative off the back of strategy and link the two seamlessly.

Production:

• You will now have a lot more autonomy in choosing suppliers (directors / photographers / illustrators / designers / animators / editors) and as such you stay appraised of the latest and best people to partner with, in order to have an opinion on who executes your work.
• You will be expected to harness the best from those suppliers and build relations with them for the ultimate good of the work.

People & Relationship Management:

• You hold close and respected relationships across all departments and people genuinely enjoy working with you.
• You may need to work with and get the best out of junior teams and be open to culturally diverse ideas that don't match your world view.
• You have seen the benefits of a strong working relationship with a copywriter and are able to wrestle ideas to their most impactful form with them.

Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ experience as an Art Director in the Advertising industry.
• An in-depth understanding of the key departments, processes and structures within an Advertising Agency.
• Good knowledge of media landscape (traditional - TTL, ATL & BTL & digital)
• Expert technical knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud: specifically, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Bonus would be a working knowledge of other platforms that help an art director bring ideas to life: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dimension, Mid journey etc.
• Experienced in working with internal team and senior clients across multiple stakeholders.
• A proven award-winning portfolio.

Qualification Required:

• Art Direction tertiary qualification
• Graphic design tertiary qualification