Graphic Designer/Art Director

Job Description

Job Description

The Brand Collective is a female and minority-led full service creative agency specializing in branding, design, web, and marketing. Our brand architects serve a diverse range of industries, ranging from hospitality to food & beverage and entertainment, providing a unique approach to each project and a tailored experience to each client. Driven by storytelling and strategy, brands are developed and transformed to achieve lasting impressions and meaningful connections.The Brand Collective is currently looking for a talented Senior Designer/ Art Director to join our amazing team.

The Senior Designer/ Art Director should be a passionate creative who will strive to deliver amazing creative experiences for both clients and internal initiatives. The selected candidate will be a conceptual thinker and highly skilled in defining and executing design styles based on brand and creative strategy while developing solid client relationships and will direct and manage the agency team. The ideal candidate will be outgoing, engaged and have a passion for our industry as well as an insatiable desire to create, learn and explore emerging trends as well as align with our core mantra:

We are modern day storytellers, telling stories through beautiful design, words, and thought. Immersed in culture and art, we live to create intuitive brand connections and iconic brands.

KEY COMPETENCIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supports the agency with the creative design and development of all agency brand projects alongside all departments to include digital marketing and web;
• Exemplifies leadership qualities and provides team motivation while supporting the Art Director(s) artistic vision and values of the agency to all team members;
• Ability to work on multiple projects at one time while managing time efficiently;
• Ability to concept and design for a wide range of mediums and diverse industries;
• Maintains best practices for file and server management, including the consistent application of naming conventions, project workflow tools and file/folder organization;
• Ensures the timely development and execution of plans, campaigns, and projects to assure visuals, growth, and agency goals are achieved;
• Inspire the team and client to be creatively progressive through the application of new media and fresh, inventive visual work;
• Maintains the agency’s standards of creative excellence and has the desire to produce award-winning creative for each project at hand;
• Responsible for evaluating agency processes, work flow, rate card, award submissions, agency growth planning, and implementing changes as needed;
• Experience and/or knowledge when it comes to working closely with development and production teams both internally and externally;
• Knowledge and understanding of web and digital design a plus;
• Working with brand planning and analytics to identify the most important audiences and key consumer touch points.
  
   

SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• The right candidate will have 4-6 years of experience in an agency environment;
• Skilled in print, digital, storytelling, and brand-building with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously;
• Strong organizational and planning skills in a fast-paced environment;
• Excellent presentation skills for communication abilities at all levels of both internal and client groups;
• Passion and understanding for progressive innovative trends and technologies;
• Communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills;
• A great attention to detail and eye for amazing design;
• Must be proactive, enthusiastic and show a willingness to go the extra mile;
• Outgoing, energetic and able to communicate clearly with teams;
• Reliability and discretion: you will often learn of confidential matters;
• Adaptability, initiative and always learning, exploring and growing;
• Project budgeting skills;
• Excellent reporting skills;
• Multiple languages a plus.

The Brand Collective is a female and minority-led full service creative agency specializing in branding, design, web, and marketing. Our brand architects serve a diverse range of industries, ranging from hospitality to food & beverage and entertainment, providing a unique approach to each project and a tailored experience to each client. Driven by storytelling and strategy, brands are developed and transformed to achieve lasting impressions and meaningful connections.

Company Description

The Brand Collective is a female and minority-led full service creative agency specializing in branding, design, web, and marketing. Our brand architects serve a diverse range of industries, ranging from hospitality to food & beverage and entertainment, providing a unique approach to each project and a tailored experience to each client. Driven by storytelling and strategy, brands are developed and transformed to achieve lasting impressions and meaningful connections.