Job Description
Art Director
Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a rockstar Art Director to join their growing creative team and help push the craft across several high-profile health, wellness, and consumer accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work alongside a team of creative directors, copywriters, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 2-4 years of experience and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented designer.
If there's a medium that gets people engaged in our brands' stories, get ready to play in that space. Whether driving a big project (a multi-channel campaign) or overseeing social creative, this candidate will be expected to deliver exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused visuals.
The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:
RESPONSIBILITIES
Help lead design across a wide range of assignments, including identity work, campaign creative, social content,video, mockups, and infographics.
Experience in designing for social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.) with an advanced understanding of best practices for creative, design, and layout.
Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
Create design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives.
Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers
Cultivate an inclusive culture as a part of the team that values trust, honesty, and team accountability towards defined goals and results
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
2-4 years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency department or industry (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
Must have a portfolio.
This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office up to two days per week.
Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
Knowing what makes for compelling work - be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an "I wish we'd thought to do that" envy.
Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint); any After Effects animation skills will be utilized.
Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML.
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k (with employer match)
Tuition Reimbursement
Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
MyDays - Flexible holiday schedules
Short-Term Disability
Paid Employee Family Leave
Family Building Benefit
Salary range: $59,000 - $75,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Job Tags
Holiday work, Temporary work, Flexible hours, 2 days per week,