Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is hiring an Art Director for an onsite role in Miami Beach, FL. This position offers a competitive salary of USD 155,000 - 175,000 per year and the chance to shape Playboy’s visual creative direction across print, digital, social, video, and experiential platforms.
In this role, you will translate brand aesthetic direction into cohesive visual storytelling at every consumer touchpoint, while partnering with internal teams and external collaborators to deliver consistent, high-quality creative. You will report to the Chief Brand Officer & Editor-in-Chief, and help maintain and evolve brand guidelines as Playboy’s identity continues to grow.
Responsibilities
- Iterate upon and translate Playboy’s visual identity across editorial, digital, social, video, and experiential platforms.
- Communicate and maintain comprehensive Brand Guidelines covering design, typography, color, photography, and imagery standards.
- Translate Playboy’s editorial voice into compelling visual storytelling across consumer touchpoints.
- Serve as the creative arbiter for all visual output, ensuring quality, consistency, and brand integrity across every channel.
- Lead art direction for the print magazine, including layout, typography, cover design, and photo selection and sequencing.
- Direct digital content design across the website, newsletters, and editorial packages.
- Develop and maintain visual templates and design systems to support scalable, high-quality content production across the team and with external partners.
- Lead casting, briefing, and on-set oversight of photographers, directors, stylists, hair and makeup artists, set designers, and other creative collaborators for editorial and brand shoots.
- Manage shoot production from pre-production through final retouching and delivery, maintaining creative vision and financial discipline, in partnership with the Playboy Operations Team or production agencies as required.
- Cultivate a robust network of photographers, directors, illustrators, and creative collaborators aligned with Playboy’s evolving identity.
- Provide art direction and creative oversight for social media content across Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and beyond.
- Collaborate with the video production team on visual direction for Playboy’s video content and video-forward editorial.
- Ensure visual consistency and brand coherence across all digital channels and formats.
- Partner with the CBO/EIC and licensing team to maintain Brand Guidelines reflecting Playboy’s evolving visual identity.
- Provide creative input and oversight on licensing initiatives to uphold visual standards across licensed product categories.
- Support experiential and brand partnership activations with creative direction from concept through execution.
- Lead and mentor a small in-house creative and design team, setting a high bar for craft and creative ambition.
- Manage an active network of external creative agencies, freelance designers, retouchers, and production vendors.
- Oversee art direction and design budgets, ensuring quality output within resource constraints.
- Build scalable, efficient workflows for visual asset delivery across platforms and deadlines.
- Foster a culture of creative excellence, collaboration, and accountability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of art direction experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead creative role.
- Exceptional design sensibility with a bold, confident, distinctive visual point of view.
- Deep expertise in typography, layout, photography direction, color theory, and visual storytelling.
- Proven track record directing high-profile editorial and brand shoots across formats, contexts, and budgets.
- A rich network of creative relationships across photography, illustration, styling, hair and makeup, and production.
- Demonstrated experience working within prestige media, fashion, entertainment, or lifestyle brand environments.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and shoots simultaneously with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Fluency and comfort in a fast-moving, multiplatform content environment.
- Strong collaborator and communicator, able to articulate and defend creative vision to diverse stakeholders.
- Experience building and evolving visual identity systems and brand guidelines.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and familiarity with digital design tools (Figma, etc.).
- A genuine passion for Playboy’s history, mission, and creative legacy, plus excitement about its next chapter.
- Strong portfolio showcasing editorial design, shoot direction, and multiplatform creative work.
- Experience managing small in-house teams alongside external creative talent networks.
Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Figma
Benefits
- Competitive Medical/Dental/Vision insurance plans with FSA/HSA and Dependent Care FSA options
- Generous Family and Parental Leave Policy
- Pet Insurance for those who need it too
- Dedicated Health and Wellness resources including an Employee Assistance Program
- Pretax Transportation/Commuter Benefits options
- Employee Resource Groups
- 401K program with Company match
- Flexible Time Away Plan
- Dynamic, inclusive workplace culture focused on innovation, impact, and employee well-being
Culture and Mission
Playboy is an iconic, culture-driving magazine brand that started over 70 years ago. Today, it operates as a consumer lifestyle business with digital and physical products available in 180 countries, spanning entertainment, events, fashion, lifestyle, sexual wellness, and consumer products.
The mission is to create a culture where all people can pursue pleasure, rooted in equality, freedom of expression, and the idea that pleasure is a fundamental human right. Playboy’s sister company, Honey Birdette, is a rapidly growing luxury lingerie and sexual wellness brand with retail outlets across the US, Australia, and the UK.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Playboy is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. Employment decisions are made without regard to protected status.
Job Conditions
This role is within brands focused on creative freedom, artistic expression, and sex positivity. The business concept includes sex appeal, nudity, and/or sexual wellness products, which means employees may be exposed to individuals in sexy or sexually provocative clothing (in person or in photographs/videos), lewd or obscene language, and depictions or discussions related to sex, sexuality, and the human anatomy.
Nothing in the posting prevents notifying the Company immediately if an individual is exposed to conduct that makes them uncomfortable.
