Art Director

SixSpeed is seeking an in-person Art Director for its Minneapolis office. In this role, you will originate ideas and concepts and lead teams to build the visual world that supports brand communications and actions across campaigns and channels.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain the visual look for projects and campaigns, ensuring consistency, distinctiveness, clear communication, and recognizable differentiation.
• Partner with copywriters to generate a high volume of original ideas and visual concepts.
• Lead collaborative visual development from start to finish by providing clear direction to teams, producers, and partners.
• Concept and execute across channels and mediums, with a focus on craft, consistency, and detail.
• Stay current on cultural and industry trends to produce new thinking and fresh looks for clients and the agency.
• Create shot lists, treatments, and capture vision; present the plan with producers and account partners to clients.
• Direct photo and video shoots and ensure every detail supports the creative vision, including required travel.
• Guide post-production, including image selection, retouching, editing, and final asset approval.
• Apply knowledge of each client’s business, brand, audience, and competitive landscape to solve real business and communications needs.
• Source, recommend, and select vendor partners such as photographers, retouchers, video production houses, editors, sound mixers, and illustrators.
• Maintain strong working relationships with team members, vendors, and clients.
• Provide clear, timely feedback to vendors to improve creative output and processes while keeping work on budget and schedule.
• Present creative ideas and visual direction to internal teams and clients, incorporating feedback into stronger work.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of experience as a visual creative in a brand advertising or marketing environment.
• A strong portfolio showing the ability to craft and build creative campaigns driven by audience insights.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign (secondarily: Lightroom, Bridge, and Premiere).
• A critical and detail-oriented mindset paired with passion, motivation, and resourcefulness.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, creative environment with an organized, open-minded approach that produces tangible results.
• Positive, empathetic, collaborative, and trustworthy working style.
• Ability to recognize creative opportunities at multiple scales.
• Knowledge of photography and video production, along with a strong sense of typography, color theory, composition, and print, broadcast, and digital communications.
• Ability and willingness to stay current on trends, maintain industry knowledge, and build new skills.
• Confidence in providing direction to partners and teams.
• Experience delivering work across multiple project teams in deadline-driven settings.
• Ability to take and incorporate feedback constructively.
• Commitment to prioritizing diversity and inclusion, especially when collaborating with external and internal partners.

Tools & Technologies

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
• Lightroom, Bridge, Premiere

Location & Schedule

• In-person role at the Minneapolis office.
• Candidates must be local to the Twin Cities area.
• In office at least three days per week.

Compensation

USD 70,000 - 90,000 per year.