Employment Enterprises, Inc. is currently working with one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing hospitality enterprises. We are searching for an Art Director to join our hardworking in-house creative team. You will partner with cross-functional teams to build marketing platforms and consumer campaigns to drive consumer awareness, engagement, preference and loyalty along all brands. This is a remote position paying $45-$56 per hour.
Art Director Responsibilities:
Proactively understand and gain knowledge of our business, brands, target audiences, and competitor activities.
Lead a creative team within the in-house creative studio. Partner closely with account manager to keep all projects on track.
Partner with the ACD/Design Team/Copywriters to develop compelling creative solutions across omni-platform touchpoints with a customer-first lens. Effectively communicate the strategic intent for each tactic.
Provide critiques respectfully and productively.
Collaborate with the partner teams and other members of the internal creative studio to understand business goals, marketing objectives, and creative needs to support various marketing campaigns and projects.
Day-to-day you may design with the team, provide feedback, guide or inform a creative strategy. Cultivate learning new tips, tricks, shortcuts, design tools, etc.
Interact with business partners and partners in various capacities. Facilitate effective decision-making.
Present and provide business rationale for creative ideas to our internal stakeholders for approval and development.
Responsible for graphic design and direction for work that goes through the internal creative team seeing all projects through from concept, design, production, completion and delivery.
Evolve, revise or redevelop creative in response to feedback from creative directors and internal stakeholders.
Help plan and run effective creative brainstorming workshops and creative presentations for our partners across marketing, brand, and corporate lines of business.
Adhere to brand identity and accessibility standards and guidelines while helping to inform the evolution and extension of the visual identity.
Influence creative workflow and ways of working for the creative team.
Use campaign performance data to understand the effectiveness of campaigns and apply key takeaways to future campaigns.
Stay current on industry trends and standard methodologies, particularly in the digital and social space also share ideas and recommendations for innovating new templates and design approaches.
Art Director Qualifications:
Portfolio showing a focus in email and digital placements.
Seven (7) years of relative Design experience, preferably in a design firm, advertising, or in-house creative department.
Four (4) years managing junior creative or design teams.
Animation, HTML 5 banner development and/or video production experience is a plus.
Working knowledge of Figma is a plus.
Experience in direct response marketing campaigns.
Experience in hospitality or consumer brands.
Experience working with a marketing department.
Experience working at a creative agency.
Can apply style guides creatively while upholding brand identity Five (5)- Seven (7) years of professional work experience.
Three (3)-Five (5) years of experience leading the development of creative marketing campaigns within a matrixed organization.
A standout portfolio that demonstrates the strong design, storytelling, brand, and campaign development.
Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to inspire and sell creative rationale to senior management and cross-functional teams.
Experience managing other designers.
Expert-level working knowledge of Adobe Suite.
Ability to process and produce multiple projects in a short time frame- resizing art/layout accordingly to specs.
Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously under the pressure of deadlines.
What we offer:
401(k) retirement plan
Medical and dental benefits for qualifying professionals
Flex spending account
Credit Union Membership
Worker Advantage Membership Discount Program
Pet Insurance
Voluntary Supplemental Insurance
“Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Employment Enterprises, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, assign, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, sex, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, U.S. Veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.”
Employment Enterprises, Inc is the parent company of Temporary Solutions, Inc. Temporary Solutions is a workforce solutions company based out of 10550 Linden Lake Plaza, Suite 200, Manassas, VA 20109. You can reach our recruiters about this job and more at 703-361-2220 or email recruiters@eeihr.com
