Art Director
Job Description
Entrepreneurs' Organization is seeking an Art Director to steward its global visual identity from a remote location. You will own the creative direction and brand standards for core materials and bespoke campaigns, ensuring consistent application across EO's global touchpoints. Collaborating with Marketing, Communications, and regional teams, you will elevate EO's visual system to support prestige, belonging, clarity, and usability.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain EO’s core visual brand materials, including brand guidelines, core templates, executive decks, one-pagers, campaign toolkits, chapter-facing materials, and other high-use assets.
- Ensure EO’s visual identity is applied consistently across global, regional, chapter, and member-facing materials.
- Serve as a primary reviewer and advisor for brand standards, covering logo usage, typography, color, imagery, layout, accessibility, and visual hierarchy.
- Partner with Marketing and Communications leadership to evolve EO’s visual system in ways that strengthen prestige, belonging, clarity, and usability.
- Develop scalable design systems and templates that empower chapters, regions, portfolios, and staff teams to create on-brand materials with less friction.
- Support version control and quality control for core EO materials to ensure a single source of truth for current, approved assets.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve EO’s brand materials for a global audience.
- Lead visual concepting and art direction for bespoke EO campaigns, major launches, member engagement campaigns, leadership initiatives, anniversaries, and global brand activations.
- Translate campaign strategy, audience insights, and messaging into scalable creative platforms across video, digital, social, email, events, print, presentations, and chapter toolkits.
- Create distinctive, flexible campaign visual systems aligned with EO’s global brand standards.
- Partner with writers, product marketers, communications leads, video producers, and project managers to shape briefs, concepts, and deliverables.
- Provide creative direction for campaign photography, video graphics, motion design, event visuals, presentation design, and social content.
- Ensure bespoke campaigns feel elevated and emotionally resonant while remaining clear and usable across EO’s global network.
- Concept, design, review, and approve high-priority creative deliverables across print, digital, web, social, video, presentation, and event formats.
- Provide clear creative direction to internal designers, freelance designers, agencies, and production partners.
- Review creative work for brand alignment, quality, accuracy, accessibility, and usability before final delivery.
- Collaborate with Creative Operations and Production Management to scope design work, estimate timelines, identify resource needs, and protect creative quality.
- Help build design processes that enable the team to deliver strong work with realistic timelines, clear roles, and appropriate review cycles.
- Maintain a high bar for design excellence while supporting practical needs of a fast-moving, global organization.
- Serve as an internal brand consultant for EO teams, portfolios, regions, and chapter-facing stakeholders.
- Educate staff, member leaders, and vendors on EO’s visual brand standards and how to apply them effectively.
- Help create training materials, office hours, and guidance that make it easier for others to use EO’s brand correctly.
- Partner with regional and chapter stakeholders to promote brand adoption in a way that creates clarity and reduces friction.
- Collaborate across departments to ensure creative solutions meet strategic goals, audience needs, and brand standards.
- Stay current on design, accessibility, digital, and visual storytelling trends that strengthen EO’s brand expression.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, art direction, brand design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of experience in brand design, art direction, visual identity, campaign creative, or creative production.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating brand systems, campaign art direction, layout design, typography, digital design, and multi-channel creative execution.
- Experience owning or governing brand standards within a complex organization.
- Strong understanding of visual identity systems, typography, color, layout, accessibility, imagery, and production best practices.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Figma or similar design tools, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.
- Ability to create elevated design work while building practical templates and systems others can use.
- Experience directing freelancers, agencies, designers, photographers, motion designers, or production partners.
- Strong creative judgment and ability to give clear, actionable feedback.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, accuracy, and brand consistency.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work with marketing, communications, digital, events, product, regional, and executive stakeholders.
- Global mindset and sensitivity to cultural differences, translation needs, accessibility, and local adaptation.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain creative decisions clearly and confidently.
- Multilingual is a plus.
- Candidates must provide a portfolio showcasing relevant Art Direction and creative work. Please include a portfolio URL on your resume or attach portfolio samples with your application.
Technologies
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Canva
- Figma
- PowerPoint
- Google Slides
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Life/AD&D insurance
- Personal/sick time
- Vacation time
- Floating holidays
- Professional development reimbursement options
Work Environment / Role Conditions
- This role is primarily sedentary and involves regular use of a computer, phone, and video conferencing.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally and to participate in virtual and in-person meetings.
- Travel up to 5 percent.
- Occasional early morning and evening meetings across multiple time zones, with supervision of two team members based in the Philippines.
- Lifting and moving up to 5 kgs.
Candidate Data Privacy Notice
Information about how EO processes personal data during recruitment can be found here: HR Candidate Privacy Notice 2026.pdf
Accessibility / Accommodations
EO will provide accommodations during the recruitment process and employment as required by applicable law. Applicants needing assistance should contact [email protected].
Posting Disclosures
- Compensation: EO reasonably and in good faith expects to pay between $112,500 and $129,000 per year for this position upon hire. Final compensation will depend on skills, experience, internal equity, and work location.
- Benefits: EO offers medical, dental, and vision coverage along with retirement benefits and life/AD&D insurance. Additional benefits include personal/sick time, vacation time, floating holidays, and professional development reimbursement options.
- Other Compensation: This position is not eligible for bonus, commission, equity, or other incentive compensation.