Lead Art Director

Description

The company is building a new EMEA creative department from the ground up, as part of House of Creative, its in-house creative team.

The role shapes the next phase of the company brand, with campaigns that go global, stay culturally relevant and win awards. It covers both consumer and B2B marketing and works with creative leaders across the company to reach consumers, creators and advertisers.

The company wants candidates who can explain their reasoning and approach, including how they work with AI. The interview process focuses on how you think, not only on what you know. A guide to the company's AI interview approach and its use of AI in recruiting is available.

Responsibilities

• Develop campaign creative from early idea to a strong, full 360 degree execution.
• Create films, commercials and 360 campaigns, including work with brand partners.
• Art direct photo and video shoots, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
• Raise creative quality across the team with marketing, aiming for strong business results and international industry recognition for the company brand.
• Give useful feedback to in-house art directors and designers across graphic, motion, digital, video and editing work in many formats.
• Explain the thinking behind your team's work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members.
• Work with the US creative team to adapt flagship campaigns for EMEA markets when needed.
• Add depth to conceptual creative direction, art direction and design.
• Use AI tools to test more ideas quickly and bring concepts to life, while taking full ownership of the craft and quality of the final work.

Requirements

• You have at least 8 years of experience as an art director, with a focus on film, commercials and 360 campaigns. At least 3 of those years must be in a creative leadership role.
• You hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Visual Communications, Design or Advertising, or have equivalent experience.
• You bring a portfolio of outstanding creative work across a range of brands.
• You lead, mentor and communicate well, and have a record of inspiring creative teams to do their best work.
• You have a strong grasp of art direction and design craft across many formats.
• You have shown you can build a story or concept that shapes culture rather than responds to it.
• You present well and can make complex ideas clear and compelling.
• You have proven experience art directing on set and managing production partners, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
• You are an accomplished creative leader who draws out the best in others and also produces very high quality work yourself.
• You work closely with writers, developing concepts with them through to execution.
• You have hands-on experience using generative AI tools in your art direction work, such as concepting, mood boards and pre-visualisation. You judge originality, brand consistency, rights and representation well.
• You are fully proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Conditions

The role is based in London and requires in-office work at least one day a week on average, so you must live within commuting distance of the London office.

The role is not eligible for relocation assistance. Details of the working model are on the company's PinFlex page.

The company is committed to inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone.

Benefits

• You will join a ground-floor team that helps shape a globally recognised, award-winning in-house creative group.
• You will work closely with the US creative team and gain exposure to global brand strategy and campaigns.