Art Director Contemporary Apparel

We are working on an Art Director role with a top womens contemporary apparel company based in NYC.The Art Director is a highly creative and strategic design leader with a solid understanding and hands-on ability to develop and execute compelling, visual design solutions across all brand touchpoints, including print, digital, and social platforms. In this role you will partner closely with the Senior Art Director to manage creative output across a high volume pipleline, ensuring work is cohesive across touchpoints and delivered at the highest standard. A key focus of this role is shaping and elevating the brand’s social presence — overseeing social content development and guiding the social team to deliver compelling, culturally relevant, and on-brand storytelling.

• Salary at full time approximately 130-140K

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the Senior Art Director to prioritize, delegate, and manage overall creative workload, ensuring projects are resourced effectively and delivered at the highest standard across all channels.
• Oversee the creative development of social-first content, partnering with the Social Media Manager and Content Creator to translate brand and campaign concepts into platform-native ideas that drive engagement and growth.
• Oversee and guide the Social Content Creator, providing clear creative direction, feedback, and mentorship to ensure output is elevated, on-brand, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure e-commerce and editorial shoots are concepted with downstream usage in mind, including social, email, homepage, and PDP content—maximizing efficiency and content output per shoot.
• Hold ownership over the look-and-feel, tone and manner of creative projects, continually striving to elevate the brand while ensuring thoughtful and consistent execution across all points of brand contact.
• Support the development of concepts for photoshoot campaigns from concept to final implementation.
• Contribute to the overall efforts of the internal creative department by delivering innovative campaigns, creative platforms and deliverables with solid, articulated creative strategy.
• Establish strategic creative solutions and develop a holistic consumer journey across multiple platforms. In addition to managing a team of direct reports, you will also manage freelance support and agency partners.
• Provide direction for design and branding teams design, creative tools etc.
• Partner closely with production teams to calendarize, schedule and staff studio e-commerce shoots and special projects, on time and within budget
• Motivate, inspire, and lead a robust team of creatives. Serve as a hands-on leader that drives quality and fosters a culture of innovation and pushing boundaries to create elevated and on brand assets.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of in-house Art direction experience, with substantial exposure to a wide variety of focus areas, including brand strategy, digital marketing materials, visual design, merchandising and collateral materials
• Proven experience in leading and managing creative individuals
• Should have robust network of photographers, stylists, producers, agencies, freelancers, etc.
• Motivate and inspire others to achieve their best work and to create an enriching, high performance culture
• Ability to make crucial creative decisions in a timely manner and serve as a composed and solution-oriented leader
• Understanding of digital, social, PR, experiential, emerging platforms, and the evolving media landscape
• Strategic and analytical thinking and know what will move the needle

If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today. 

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About Solomon Page

Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a specialty niche provider of staffing and executive search solutions across a wide array of functions and industries. The success of Solomon Page reflects an organic growth strategy supported by a highly entrepreneurial culture. Acting as a strategic partner to our clients and candidates, we focus on providing customized solutions and building long-term relationships based on trust, respect, and the consistent delivery of excellent results. For more information and additional opportunities, visit: solomonpage.com and connect with us on Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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