Junior Art Director: Luxury Branding and Advertising Agency
Location: New York, NY
Our client is an award-winning, Manhattan based, boutique creative and branding agency that specializes in fashion, beauty, fragrance and luxury lifestyle brands. The agency offers campaign, design, image, packaging and branding capabilities across a variety of mediums, from POS and print to digital to moving image.
They currently seek a dynamic and buttoned up Junior Art Director to join their team. The Junior AD will be the day-to-day creative support to the Senior AD and Creative Director on an array of clients across the fragrance, luxury lifestyle, and fashion industries—as well as a variety of other projects and new business pitches as needed.
Responsibilities:
-Support Senior AD at project inception asking necessary questions to develop a deep understanding of project needs, scope, timeline and budget
-Manage and execute on projects thereafter, from initial mood boarding and concepts to production, creation and polishing of branding experience, through execution across print and digital media
-Demonstrate some experience across multiple design disciplines in graphic design, photo/art direction, interactive design, print collateral design and experiential design
-Be comfortable working on art direction and execution of design work across a variety of mediums - photography/video and photo shoot/video production and editing, interactive experiences, environment, illustration, design and e-commerce design, print and print production and more
-Possess some ideation skills and effectively articulate it in written and visual formats persuading both team and clients
-Actively research and be aware of art and photography, design trends, branding, and interactive technologies and be able to speak about it with the team, clients and vendors
-Express constant curiosity for “what’s new” and are well versed at what is happening in technology, fashion, social media, and beyond
-Proactively seek to determine and foresee issues in relation to timeline or scope and communicate any changes to the team
Requirements:
-A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or greater in Design, Graphic Design, or related field
-1-3 years of advertising or marketing experience, either agency or in house
-Experience with Sketch, Figma and interactive prototyping a must
-Fashion, beauty, luxury and/or retail experience preferred
-Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills
-Smart, independent, and entrepreneurial thinker
-Team player able to work effectively with people of all levels
-Both creative and strategically-minded and self motivated
-Highly organized, detail oriented and prepared to problem solve quickly
-Passion for branding, digital developments and cultural trends
-Comfortable working with a small team, juggling multiple projects and should seek to see all work from a creative as well as a business standpoint
-Poised, well-spoken, and personable
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Send your resume to jodi@trurecruitment.com.