Art Director

Conagra Brands is hiring an Art Director for a hands-on, concept-to-execution role in Chicago, IL (hybrid). Reporting to the Creative Director, you will help build brands and create original visual assets that support marketing initiatives across consumer touchpoints. This position is designed for someone who enjoys partnering across disciplines and taking creative work from early strategy through production-ready delivery.

What you’ll do

• Translate briefs, business goals, and consumer insights into strategically grounded creative concepts that drive brand awareness, engagement, sales, and conversion.
• Own concept through final execution by creating mood boards, storyboards, style guides, and presentations that clearly communicate creative direction.
• Apply and extend brand systems across retail, shopper marketing, e-commerce, digital, social, web, and content platforms.
• Create scalable campaign toolkits and production-ready assets, including advertising, retail creative, digital and social materials, and on-screen graphics.
• Support and help direct photography, video, and content initiatives across pre-production, on-set collaboration, and post-production; create and edit social content for digital and social channels.
• Collaborate with designers, strategists, marketers, and production teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality work across channels and formats.
• Use creative judgment, attention to detail, and an understanding of the consumer packaged goods landscape to produce relevant, commercially effective work.
• Explore emerging creative tools and technologies, including generative AI; occasionally participate on camera when concepts require it.
• Manage multiple projects, timelines, feedback cycles, and deliverables from concept through completion.
• Present creative concepts and visual solutions clearly to internal partners and stakeholders.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 2+ years of design or art direction experience in an agency or in-house creative team.
• Portfolio showing strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution.
• Experience turning brand audits, creative briefs, consumer insights, and performance data into executable creative concepts.
• Strong understanding of brand systems and the need for consistency across consumer touchpoints.
• Expertise designing for digital and social platforms using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva.
• Interest in generative AI and emerging creative technologies, with experience using tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting photography and video productions from preparation through production.
• Strong attention to detail and project management skills with a collaborative, team-first mindset.
• Passion for brand design, especially in the food and consumer packaged goods industries.

Compensation

Pay range: $64,000 - $95,000 per year. The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans
• Wellness incentive program
• Mental wellbeing support
• Fitness reimbursement
• Great pay
• Bonus incentive opportunity
• Matching 401(k)
• Stock purchase plan
• Career development opportunities
• Employee resource groups
• On-demand learning
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid-time off
• Parental leave
• Flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
• Volunteer opportunities

Work setup

• Number of days in office: 3

Tools you’ll use

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express, Photoshop, InDesign, Canva, ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney