Art Director

About The Role: As an Art Director at CBRE, you will manage the creative team responsible for developing, designing, and producing materials to meet marketing objectives with an intent focus on delivering superior, strategic, and comprehensive graphic design. This role falls within a Graphic Design job function. The ideal candidate will be adept at producing captivating visuals that can effectively communicate our brand voice and visual identity. The Art Director will work closely with marketing teams, clients, and brokerage stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into compelling product. What You’ll Do: Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees. Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed. Design advanced interactive, digital, editorial, and print collateral that aims to serve and grow CBRE’s client base. Advise on art direction and exercise leadership responsibilities according to business development and property marketing project requirements and client needs. Ensure artwork across various mediums and focus areas is consistent, organized and follows all fundamental graphic design principles. Continually audit output to ensure thoughtful application in all materials. Engage daily across departments to consult on a full lifecycle creative process, from conceptualization to execution, ensuring that collective design materials adhere to the organization’s aesthetic standards as well as custom and brand guidelines. Manage large, complex design projects using team formation and delegation when needed. Align to broad workflow standards. Review and approve drafts. Provide collaborative feedback and guidance to design colleagues and have the team apply necessary edits when applicable. Learn standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines. Propose recommendations for process improvement and align with marketing leadership to plan paths of implementation. Identify broad design training and professional development opportunities and establish tools for continued learning. Mentor and train other creatives. Stay up to date on design and technology trends. Regularly share findings to promote broader discussion and foster a creative community. Model behavior that is exemplary of CBRE RISE values to impact and progress the quality of own work and the work of others on the team. What You’ll Need: Bachelor’s degree preferably in visual communications, marketing graphic design or similar field with 5-8 years of relevant, professional experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention preferred. Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems. Leadership skills to motivate team impact on quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the job discipline and department. Expert level experience with Adobe Creative Suite including but not limited to InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Publish. In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products including but not limited to Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Understanding of existing procedures and standards to solve complex problems. Ability to analyze possible solutions using technical experience to apply appropriate judgement and precedents. Disclaimers Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Equal Employment Opportunity CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Candidate Accommodations CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at View email address on click.appcast.io or via telephone at View phone number on click.appcast.io (U.S.) and View phone number on click.appcast.io (Canada). CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans) #J-18808-Ljbffr CBRE