We are looking for a highly-creative Art Director to lead our creative team. As a Supervising Associate — Art Director, you own the creative and visual direction and design for creative collaterals across multiple formats, ensuring that all creatives are on-brand, user-centric and aesthetically proficient. With a passion for problem-solving and creative strategy, you lead creative brainstorms and content and digital marketing teams to produce best-in-class creatives. With your impeccable aesthetic sense and design sensibility, you are a versatile and reliable leader who can elevate any creative conceptualization, storyboard or creative direction for projects across multiple channels.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Provide creative leadership to the design teams to deliver a range of collaterals (i.e., brochures, placemats, illustration, layouts, infographics, on-screen presentations, proposals, motion graphic content and social media collaterals)
- Produce strategically sound conceptual work and bring it to life through rapid prototyping and storyboard creation and all the way through post-production
- Stay up-to-date with current and future designs, web standards, concepts and industry trends and advocate the same to team members and customers
- Provide creative and art direction support to the team, coordinate with team members and others to resolve issues, as necessary
- Proactively identify opportunities to employ pop culture trends, creativity, executional approaches and techniques to create exceptional user experiences
- Communicate effectively with various customers/customer groups while understanding design briefs and sharing ideas
- Lead project discussions with customers with a customer-centric mindset
- Provide unique and innovative design solutions to customers and convince them to make the right design choices
- Mentor junior team members on best design practices
- Prioritize deadlines and effectively manage multiple creative projects parallelly
- Be a part and contribute towards various organizational initiatives
Skills and Attributes For Success:
- A user-centric mindset with creative, innovative and analytical approach
- Working knowledge of creating infographics and data visualization techniques
- Exceptional project management, risk management and team management
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality output on time and within budget
- An innovative mindset that takes a client problem and delivers compelling and inspiring creative solutions
- Excellent communication (comprehension, verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and persuade
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Understanding of current and future visual trends
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelor’s degree or college diploma (preferably in Graphic Design or related discipline)
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe DC, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
- Experience across a range of digital, social, and integrated media
- Knowledge of social platforms (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest etc.)
- At least 5 years of overall experience in a fast-paced global environment (team management experience mandatory)
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- Preferable knowledge of Adobe After effects, Premier Pro and motion graphics skills
Technologies and Tools:
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe DC, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
What We Look For:
- Strong business acumen along with creative vision
- Creative problem-solving mindset with a flexible can-do attitude
- A growth mindset creative who loves to collaborate, ideate and deliver breakthrough work
- Experience in leading and managing creative teams, as well as developing junior creative talent
- Self-starter who loves challenges and makes big things happen by working together
- Experience working with global clients
- Confidence, maturity and ability to build strong client relationships
- A strong team player who is comfortable working collaboratively with others
- Salary: 45,000- 60,000
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: ₹45,000.00 - ₹60,000.00 per month
Experience:
- industry: 5 years (Required)
- Graphic design: 5 years (Required)
- Team management: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
