Art Director

IWCO is hiring an Art Director for an onsite role in Chanhassen, MN. This position blends hands-on creative leadership with day-to-day oversight, helping the creative team deliver direct response marketing work across channels. You will also support the Creative Director with planning, workload visibility, resource coordination, and freelance management, while serving as a key figure in the creative workflow.

What you’ll do

• Provide day-to-day creative guidance, feedback, and mentoring to team members to maintain quality and consistency.
• Coordinate creative project workflow, resource allocation, and freelance team participation.
• Act as a primary administrator of Monday.com, managing project workflow, creative team engagement, time cards, and creative team oversight.
• Partner with the Creative Director and Account Director on estimating.
• Support the onboarding of new creative employees.
• Immerse yourself in Marketing & Creative Services (MCS) clients, learning verticals, brands, competitors, and historical campaigns.
• Create and update original layouts and modify layouts and copy using Adobe Creative Suite and related tools, aligned to client direction and brand guidelines.
• In partnership with copywriters and production artists, own the files produced against briefs, ensuring timelines are met and updates are made until handoff for execution.
• Ensure work meets brand standards for color palette, font use, link usage, file formats, layers, and guidelines.
• Oversee creation of physical and electronic samples for presentations and client needs.
• Organize server files, follow naming conventions, and move files through the process efficiently.
• Monitor deadlines, adjust to changing timelines, and contribute input to estimates for scope, effort, timelines, and resources.
• Stay current on production equipment and new formats, and collaborate cross-functionally to create new formats.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to develop or rebuild illustrations, logos, and similar items in vector or raster programs as needed.
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships and collaborate across roles and departments.
• Excellent listening skills to identify the root of change requests or needed tweaks.
• Flexibility to adapt processes and systems for smooth project completion.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated initiative, conscientiousness, and follow-through.
• Willingness and ability to learn executional needs for color separations (spot-color and CMYK) and file-building requirements for press changes including four-color and/or black/spot-color plate changes.
• Ability to develop creative across media, including print, direct mail, digital, and video.

Tools you’ll use

• Monday.com
• Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat)
• macOS, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, FTP

Compensation and eligibility

Salary: $105,000 to $120,000 per year (starting range).

Location: Chanhassen, MN (onsite).

Work authorization: Authorization to work for any employer in the United States is required. IWCO will not sponsor a work visa for this role.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Other wellness programs
• 401(k) plans
• Paid holidays
• Vacation time
• Sick leave

Experience and education

• Minimum experience: 3 years
• Education: Degree in graphic design or art (portfolio school training or equivalent preferred)
• Familiarity with direct mail and digital printing is a plus
• 3–5 years of experience in a printing or agency environment
• 7–10 years’ experience in layout and design of impactful advertising and direct response communications
• Previous experience managing a team and project workflow through a project management tool
• Proven experience presenting creative concepts, campaigns, and design solutions to clients in partnership with internal stakeholders
• Proficient in macOS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, FTP, and project management platforms (Monday.com)

Physical requirements

• Ability to work 8 hours consecutively
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Available to work occasionally after hours to meet deadlines