About the role:We're looking for an Art Director to lead concept development for Clutch. Our creative team executes at a high bar; this role adds the thinking behind it. You'll turn business and audience insight into strategically sound concepts, then art-direct them across campaigns, product, social, and retail.
This is a hands-on role for a master of craft who is fluent across design tools and formats and obsessed with getting the work right, whether that means building rigorous design systems or pushing a bolder idea than anyone expected. If you're an Art Director looking to really contribute to a brand's success and actually move projects from concept to reality, this is the place for you.
What you'll do:- Lead concept development and ideation with the Creative Director for campaigns, brand moments, and customer experiences, grounding ideas in business context and audience insight.
- Own daily art direction: set the visual bar, direct photo, video, motion, and design production, and keep the work sharp from first sketch to final asset.
- Run creative reviews and approval within the design team and external partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that makes the work better and the team stronger.
- Move fluidly between concept and hands-on execution across a range of design tools and mediums, building out designs across product, video, experiential and digital.
- Concept and service the marketing departments advertising needs, building tools that contribute towards our self service 'creative engine'.
- Use data and creative learnings to sharpen future concepts and continuously improve the work.
- Increase the creative team's output whilst raising craft and originality.
What Success Looks Like: - Develop bold, strategically grounded concepts for campaigns and brand experiences.
- The quality and craft of the team's creative work has visibly risen through your art direction, feedback, and hands-on design skills.
- The creative team is shipping more, faster, and the standard hasn't slipped.
- Audience insights, business context, and performance learnings are shaping the work, and each round of creative is better than the last.
What You Bring: - 5+ years in a creative agency or in-house brand team, including 3+ years in an art direction role, with campaigns that shipped and ran in market.
- Strong art direction and design craft. Portfolio required, we'll want to see shipped work and your specific role on it.
- Experience leading shoots and directing photographers, videographers and freelancers on set, and reviewing and approving day-to-day creative within an established brand system.
- Ability to apply a brand system consistently across campaigns, marketing, product and customer touchpoints.
- Collaborative by default; this role is in-office at 60 Adelaide St.
- Nice to have: experience in automotive, retail or e-commerce, or with high-volume product photography.
Why You'll Love It At Clutch:- Join the start of an exciting team as we build the next household Canadian brand, at one of Canada's largest and fastest-growing B2C startups.
- Own the concept. You're not executing someone else's brief; you're the person turning insight into the idea, then art-directing it all the way through.
- Ship in weeks, not quarters. Real performance data on every round, so you see what landed and make the next one sharper.
- One brand, no client churn. Go deep on a single brand with a direct line to the Creative Director and leadership, with no layers of account management between you and the decision.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits from day one, plus room to grow into senior creative leadership as the team scales.
Employment Type:New, Permanent Full-Time
Compensation & Benefits:- Salary range: $95,000 - $120,000 annually.
- Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, dental, vision, prescriptions, life insurance, and dependent coverage; starting from day 1.
- Pay decisions reflect skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities, and working conditions.
We use AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess applications. Final hiring decisions are made by our team.
