Art Director

Art Director

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising. Our ad tech division FreeWheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

ROLE SUMMARY: We're looking for an Art Director who still makes the work and manages people who do the same. This is a player-coach role, leading and managing Associate Art Directors and designers (senior through junior) while working hands-on to set the creative standard. You bring equal parts senior judgment and craft, executing alongside the team to make your direction both credible and actionable. You'll bring that to a creative studio supporting three distinct B2B brands: FreeWheel, Media Solutions, and Universal Ads. The work spans go-to-market campaigns, sizzle reels, digital experiences, presentation design, video production support, and industry events including NewFronts and Cannes Lions. It's high-volume, high-visibility, and fast-moving. You need to lead and execute across all of it simultaneously. You'll report to the Head of Design and operate as a peer to a second Art Director. The expectation is that your presence raises the creative ceiling for the work and for the people around you.

Core Responsibilities

• Concept and execute visual directions for integrated campaigns across FreeWheel, Media Solutions, and Universal Ads from initial exploration to final delivery.
• Formally manage and develop Associate Art Directors and designers by setting clear creative direction, upholding standards, and elevating team output through leadership and hands-on execution.
• Operate as a true multidisciplinary designer: brand, digital, presentation, motion-aware, moving fluidly between formats at speed without losing quality.
• Art direct and produce across formats: digital and paid media, sales and event presentations, sizzle reels and video frames, brand toolkits, and large-format event creative.
• Lead design innovation by introducing new tools, formats, and approaches and integrating them into real production workflows.
• Bring working proficiency in HTML/CSS, able to build, debug, and QA digital executions directly, removing friction between design and production when it matters.
• Build rapid prototyping workflows that close the gap between concept and proof of concept.
• Partner with copywriters, video editors, and motion partners as an equal creative voice.
• Develop and maintain scalable brand and design systems across a multi-brand environment.
• Identify where the team's visual standards need to evolve and take ownership of moving them.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

This is not a management role in disguise. If your primary value is organizing the work of others, this isn't the right fit. We need an Art Director who can out-think the brief, push the work further, and back it up with execution that's undeniable.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating original concept development and executed craft across digital, brand, and campaign work at a level that is clearly, visibly Art Director.
• 5 to 8 years of progressive design experience, with 2 to 3 years directing and managing creative in an agency or in-house studio.
• True multidisciplinary range across brand, digital, presentation, and motion-aware design.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, with the ability to build clean, production-ready files at speed.
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, able to debug, QA, and step in when needed. Someone who removes friction, not a full-time coder.
• Experience concepting and executing across brand, digital, and B2B campaign contexts.
• Working knowledge of motion principles, able to direct video and motion partners using detailed frames and references.
• Strong presentation skills. You can articulate the thinking behind the work, not just the work itself.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools and a track record of integrating them meaningfully into production workflows.
• Experience working across multiple brands in a fast-paced in-house or agency environment.
• Background in design systems, campaign toolkits, or scalable brand architecture.
• Experience with event and experiential creative, including large-format and presentation design.

Skills: Adobe Creative Cloud, Art Direction, Art Production, Design Direction, Photo Direction, Typography, Visual Direction

Compensation: This job can be performed in Maryland, and New York City with a Pay Range of $97,837.39 - $176,107.31. Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education: Bachelor's Degree. While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable): Relevant Work Experience: 5-7 Years. Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.