Associate Creative Director - Art

Acd Art Director

The Community is looking for an ACD art director to join our team. This role will focus on US Hispanic Market / Multicultural and will partner closely with an ACD Copywriter. The ideal candidate will be responsible for concepting new ideas on future creative initiatives for one the agency's largest clients. This role will be tasked to ensure that the team's creative efforts are impactful. The Community leads with their passion to create inventive new concepts. This position will partner to develop, create and execute 360 creative as well as social focused work for assigned clients. This will include determining the tone, style, visual identity and structure of content based on client's requirements but also helping push the clients further. This role will have the opportunity to be involved in all stages of the advertising process including initial idea creation to ensure anticipated creative ideas can be achieved based on the platform, technical and artistic needs, and budgets proposed.

Responsibilities

• Deliver breakthrough creative work
• Create succinct concepts for projects inclusive of big picture campaigns.
• Lead the creative expansion of big picture concepts to be rolled out into 360 creative including: retail copy, radio, print, out of home, in store signage, etc.
• Understand when to push for Digital/Social focused projects.
• Collaborate with the creative team on new business pitches to develop and shape brands and their messaging.
• Interact with project teams to ensure tone, style and structure support the concept.
• Actively contribute to strategic brainstorming campaign development, creative brief development and execution.
• Present to clients and help sell through ideas.
• Manage the roll out of campaigns.
• Mentor and direct junior creative talent.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of experience in an ad agency in an art direction role.
• Ability to concept long form and short form content.
• Experience overseeing and/or mentoring junior creatives.
• Outstanding creativity and ability and strong concept skills.
• Ability to concept content in a wide variety of styles.
• Experience working in an Art Director/Copywriter partnership.
• Prior advertising experience working in US Hispanic sector or other multicultural markets required.
• Ability to interact with team and clients in English.
• Spanish language skills are preferred but not required.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and clients.
• Bachelor's in advertising or communications or foreign equivalent a plus but not required.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-powered creative tools and workflows to support concept development, visual storytelling, creative exploration and/or production within a professional creative environment.

Compensation Range: $106,780.00 - $146,100.00 annually.