Head of Arts & Culture

Title: Art Director/Associate Creative Director
Location: Newark, NJ - Hybrid (3 days on site)

Reports to: Head of Creative

The client has just launched a major new brand campaign and needs a hands‑on contract creative who can help expand and activate it across every channel. Someone who wants to be in the work: art directing, designing, storytelling, and pushing it further. This is a direct report to the Head of Creative with creative leadership responsibility for the brand globally. A new brand campaign at this scale doesn’t come around often. You’d be stepping in at the moment of activation - when the creative direction is set, but the opportunities to expand it are wide open. Client manages $1.5 trillion in assets across 41 offices worldwide. The creative freedom to match it is too.

Art direct and design high‑profile campaigns, pitch decks, and multimedia content. Take the new brand campaign and find new ways to activate and extend it across channels. Build on the visual system, push the narratives further, and make complex investment concepts feel compelling and clear.

Coach and mentor internal creatives through craft, not just critique. Own brand quality: Keep everything sharp, on‑brand, and visually excellent across every touchpoint.

Partner with strategy, production, media, and business units. Stay tuned to what’s next in design, technology, and culture and bring those ideas into the work.

What Makes This Contract Different
A new brand campaign already in market - rare timing to step in and help define where it goes next, with real creative influence over its evolution.

You’ll have creative freedom and the resources of a global financial powerhouse to back it up.

A team that genuinely cares about craft and quality, not just output volume.

Proximity to NYC with Newark’s calmer pace - the office is minutes from Penn Station.

You can walk into a room of financial analysts and make a complex data story feel inevitable.

You’ve worked in investment management, asset management, or financial services - so you understand the difference between retail and institutional audiences, and you know how to balance creative ambition with regulatory reality.

5-8 years of art direction or design experience in investment management, asset management, or financial services.

Portfolio showing sophisticated art direction, campaign work, data visualization, and strategic branding for financial audiences.

Expert‑level Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator).

Multimedia fluency: video production, animation principles, Adobe Premiere.

Strong data storytelling - turning financial complexity into beautiful, clear visuals.

Compliance‑aware: you understand how to innovate within financial services regulatory constraints.

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Advertising, or related field.

Client operates with the urgency and ambition of a brand competing for attention in a crowded market.