About the Agency:
An award-winning, creative marketing, advertising, and strategic communications agency known for delivering high-impact work for their client. Their team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and a shared commitment to excellence.
With a strong presence in the travel, hospitality, and entertainment space , they support global brands across high-volume, fast-paced campaign environments where creativity and execution must move at speed.
The Role
Seeking an Art Director with strong advertising agency experience. This individual will play a key role in developing high-quality, on-brand creative across print and digital channels , supporting a wide range of campaigns—particularly within travel, hospitality, and lifestyle clients .
This is an ideal opportunity for a creative leader who loves both concepting and execution . You’ll help shape the visual direction of campaigns, mentor creative talent, collaborate with internal teams and external production partners, and ensure every touchpoint delivers thoughtful, compelling, and brand-right creative.
The ideal candidate has a strong agency or in-house creative background, an exceptional design eye, and the ability to take an idea from initial concept through final production. You should be equally comfortable brainstorming with a creative team, designing hands-on in Adobe Creative Suite, directing a photoshoot, and presenting a fully developed campaign to senior stakeholders.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and mentor creative team members, designers, and creative interns while fostering a collaborative and inspiring environment.
- Develop big-picture campaign concepts and integrated creative ideas that build brands and tell compelling stories.
- Remain hands-on throughout the creative process, from initial concepting and design exploration through final production-ready execution.
- Establish the visual direction, tone, look, and feel for campaigns across digital, social, video, print, experiential, and other integrated channels .
- Partner with copywriters, designers, strategists, account teams, and other stakeholders to brainstorm and develop innovative creative solutions.
- Create and oversee digital and social creative, ensuring concepts are optimized for individual platforms and audience behaviors.
- Develop original content and campaign assets from concept through completion, including social content, digital advertising, video, experiential activations, and branded experiences.
- Build polished, visually compelling presentations that clearly communicate creative concepts and strategic thinking to clients and senior leadership.
- Present creative ideas with confidence and effectively articulate the thinking and strategy behind the work.
- Manage and provide creative direction to outside partners, including photographers, videographers, animators, production teams, and merchandise/apparel vendors.
- Participate in and provide creative direction for photoshoots and content productions.
- Ensure creative consistently adheres to established brand standards while identifying opportunities to evolve or develop new visual guidelines when appropriate.
- Stay ahead of emerging design trends, social platforms, technology, AI, storytelling techniques, and new opportunities for brands to connect with audiences.
- Balance multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines while maintaining a consistently high standard of creative execution.
Qualifications :
- 8–10+ years of Art Direction, Graphic Design, or integrated creative experience , ideally within an advertising agency, creative agency, digital agency, or sophisticated in-house creative department.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking and hands-on execution across integrated campaigns.
- Proven experience developing creative across digital, social media, advertising, video, print, and other brand touchpoints.
- Strong leadership experience with the ability to mentor, motivate, and provide thoughtful creative direction to designers and junior team members.
- Exceptional conceptual, visual storytelling, typography, layout, and design skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite , particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Strong presentation skills and proficiency with PowerPoint, Google Slides, and/or Keynote.
- Experience developing and presenting campaign concepts to clients, executives, or senior stakeholders.
- Experience directing or participating in photoshoots and collaborating with photographers, videographers, animators, and other production partners.
- Strong understanding of social media creative best practices and how creative, strategy, media, and analytics work together.
- Ability to translate brand strategy into distinctive creative concepts while maintaining consistency across channels.
- Highly organized and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and deadlines.
- Collaborative, positive, proactive, and comfortable both leading a team and rolling up your sleeves to execute.