Senior Art Director
Job Description
Senior Art Director role in New York supporting a leading luxury automotive client across iconic brands.
Responsibilities
- Generate original creative ideas and integrated campaign concepts that strengthen brand presence and connect with audiences across channels.
- Set and deliver strong visual directions across brand, digital, CRM, social, experiential, and activation work.
- Concept and shape visually distinctive brand experiences, events, partnerships, and activations that bring the brands to life in memorable ways.
- Update and evolve existing global and campaign creative for the North American market while maintaining the integrity and quality of the original idea.
- Apply a sophisticated eye for typography, composition, imagery, and overall design craft.
- Partner closely with Copywriters and Creative Directors from early concept through final execution.
- Collaborate with strategy, production, account, CRM, social, and other teams to deliver creative across multiple touchpoints.
- Communicate creative thinking clearly and present concepts and visual directions confidently to internal teams and client stakeholders.
Requirements
- Experience in an Art Director role within a creative, advertising, or integrated agency environment.
- Strong portfolio showing conceptual thinking, beautifully crafted visual work, and integrated campaign ideas.
- Experience across brand campaigns, experiential, activations, digital, CRM, and/or social.
- Automotive experience is highly valued; luxury or premium brand experience is a strong plus.
- Proven ability to develop work across multiple channels and formats, from major brand concepts through campaign extensions.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative creative environment across multiple briefs.
- Open to strong Art Directors ready to take the next step into a Senior Art Director role.
- A degree of some sort to support understanding of background and point of view.
- Ability to develop a strong creative idea rather than only executing against an existing one.
- Refined design sensibility and a strong point of view on what makes creative feel premium and beautifully crafted.
- Genuine interest in brand building and in creating work that strengthens a brand world over time.
- Excitement for both big-picture conceptual opportunities and the day-to-day needs of an integrated account.
- Enjoyment partnering with Copywriters, Designers, Creative Directors, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Curiosity, enthusiasm, and excitement to get under the skin of the brands and the automotive category.
Location & Compensation
- Location: New York, NY (onsite)
- Salary: USD 120,000 - 140,000 per year