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Art Director

The Crossing Church Chesterfield, MO

Chesterfield, MO

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Full time Manager Marketing Art Direction

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Job Description

The Crossing Church is seeking an Art Director in Chesterfield, MO (onsite) to lead creative work across weekend services, ministries, and digital channels. This full-time role blends creative leadership with hands-on execution, including design and video, while helping the Creative Team grow into a culture of trust, curiosity, collaboration, and excellent work.

What you’ll do

Lead and develop The Crossing’s Creative Team with a shared commitment to strong creative work and a healthy team culture shaped by trust, curiosity, collaboration, spiritual maturity, creative courage, and ownership.
Run regular team meetings including creative reviews, brainstorms, planning conversations, and project debriefs that strengthen both the work and the people behind it.
Set overarching creative direction for visual communication and storytelling across weekend services, ministries, campaigns, events, print, video, social media, web, and other digital channels.
Translate ministry goals, teaching themes, organizational priorities, and stories of life change into creative that is compelling, executable, and aligned with brand and audience experience.
Protect and advance brand standards through clear creative expectations around creativity, storytelling, design, visual quality, clarity, editorial judgment, and brand alignment.
Review deliverables and provide clear, constructive feedback that improves final output and develops the people responsible for it.
Act as a working manager, contributing directly to creative development and stepping into design, video shoots, production problem-solving, and high-priority work when needed.
Partner with the Communications Director to steward the Creative Team budget, including staffing needs, contractors, equipment, software, subscriptions, freelance support, and other creative resources.
Build relationships with leaders across ministries to discover ways the creative team can serve those needs.

What you bring

Demonstrated experience leading and developing creative professionals across multiple disciplines, setting clear direction, and building cohesive work for multiple channels and audiences.
Strong graphic design knowledge and visual judgment, including typography, layout, composition, hierarchy, color, brand systems, and audience-centered communication.
Working experience in video production and visual storytelling, including pre-production, filming, camera, lighting, audio, interview direction, editing workflows, and post-production review.
Strong strategic-planning, project-management, communication, and budget-stewardship abilities.
Strong creative communication, discernment, and craftsmanship.
Creative judgment with confidence to set direction, make decisions, and give useful feedback.
Curiosity and proactive thinking, with a willingness to notice opportunities and bring ideas forward.
Collaboration and emotional intelligence, able to work across personalities, disciplines, and ministry priorities.
A working leadership style that includes entering the details, contributing directly, and supporting the team when needed.
Organization, dependability, adaptability, and the ability to bring calm and clarity in a fast-moving environment.
Passion for using creativity, storytelling, and beauty to help people encounter Jesus.

Education and experience

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, marketing, media production, advertising, communications, or a related field (equivalent professional experience will be considered).
Ten or more years of progressive experience in art direction, creative direction, design leadership, communications, agency work, church media, nonprofit communications, or a comparable environment.
Three or more years of direct experience leading, coaching, and developing creative professionals or creative project teams.
A portfolio demonstrating high-level design, strategic creative thinking, brand stewardship, visual communication, and ideally experience across both design and video.

Spiritual alignment (required for all staff)

Attend a service at one of The Crossing campuses on a weekly basis.
Be passionate about your relationship with God.
Be baptized after making the thoughtful decision to follow Christ.
Regard the Bible as God’s final authority in all areas of Christian life and desire to be wholly obedient to it.
Wholeheartedly affirm The Crossing’s Statement of Faith: https://thecrossing.church/beliefs, including their view on Baptism: https://thecrossing.church/baptismstance.
Live a lifestyle consistent with scriptural principles.

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