Job Description

We are looking for an Art Director to join our growing Creative team in New York City. The 1000heads Creative team is a proud, powerful collective of social copy and design obsessives, experts managing creative output. You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Accounts to Insights, Community to Strategy, to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients.

We are looking for an Art Director who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves the challenge of discovering engaging and innovative content that genuinely excites our target audience. You’ll be the hands-on visionary involved in creating impactful social, digital and brand activation campaigns, from concept to execution, working on a design-savvy team and across clients to help brands effectively tell their story through various channels. 

We’ll depend on you for championing and selling creative work, actively evolving design strategies that promote excellence, and translating marketing and branding strategies into fresh and impressive campaigns. All this while always acting as the guardian of quality and overall look and feel. If you are passionate about all of the small things and are eager to get your hands dirty with ever-evolving work across various projects, we’d like to meet you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Working from a brief with a copywriter or other members of the creative team, generating ideas to present to clients
2. Determine how to best represent concepts visually
3. Producing sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and layouts based on creative ideas to bring to life concepts for presentations and proposals
4. Understanding marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience, and developing artistic approach and style to match
5. Working on designs to produce effective social and digital campaigns
6. Coordinating with specialists, such as artists, photographers and developers
7. Offering input to creative meetings and sharing ideas
8. Producing attractive and effective designs for all media
9. Managing projects, on and off location, and working within a budget

Requirements

• This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in office required. You must reside in one of our US office locations: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami

• Minimum 5-6 years experience
• Must have agency and/or social media content experience 
• Experience in the luxury industry a plus
• Expert knowledge of design software and editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, After Effects)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellence in all visual elements (layout, typography, hierarchy and composition)
• A keen eye for design and visualization, and a meticulous attention to detail
• Time management and multitasking abilities
• Creativity skills and problem-solving aptitude
• Ability to meet deadlines in a high pressure environment
• Inspirational and visionary with the self-drive to maintain and improve design standards
• Team player with flexibility to step in when needed on any project
• Online portfolio with provided link

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and more!
• Generous time off package, including the last week of the year
• 401k & Roth retirement investment options with employer match, after year-one
• Gym and professional development stipends
• Culture Club with monthly activities like sports, games and happy hours
• DEI Council and Employee Resource Groups
• Commute and parking benefits
• Wellness program that focuses on mental, physical and financial employee wellness
• And much more!

SALARY RANGE

$95,000 - $110,000

ABOUT 1000HEADS

1000heads combines expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build Social Age brands. 1000heads provides a fully integrated, end-to-end Social Transformation™ proposition to blue-chip clients encompassing data & analytics, strategy and implementation. 1000heads has a global footprint, employing over 200 people across 12 offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Bogota, Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Japan, Paris and Berlin. 1000heads’ clients include Alphabet, Nature Made, The North Face, San Pellegrino, Amazon, Cisco, and Diageo.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

For more information on 1000heads, visit 1000heads.com .

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