Associate Creative Director, Art

Overview

We're looking for an Associate Creative Director, Art to develop sophisticated, high-impact creative for a leading global enterprise technology brand.

You'll transform complex B2B challenges into distinctive visual ideas across integrated brand campaigns, thought leadership, and content experiences. Partnering closely with Copy, Strategy, Design, and cross-functional teams, you'll establish creative territories and build visual systems capable of scaling without compromising craft. We're looking for someone who combines big conceptual thinking, exceptional visual judgment, and strong design-system instincts. You can find the big visual idea, elevate a complex business story, establish a distinctive creative territory, and build the system that allows the work to scale.

Please note: This is a hybrid schedule requiring of 4 days/week on average in office. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Responsibilities

• Develop bold, strategically grounded visual concepts and campaign platforms.
• Turn complex enterprise and technology propositions into distinctive visual ideas.
• Partner with Copy to develop integrated creative territories from brief through execution.
• Establish visual languages and campaign systems that can scale across audiences and channels.
• Evolve existing campaigns while protecting and strengthening the central creative idea.
• Direct creative across digital, social, paid, earned, web, events, video, and content.
• Develop modular design approaches and visual hierarchies that support high-volume creative.
• Present and defend creative thinking with senior stakeholders.
• Maintain an exceptional standard for concept, art direction, design, and craft.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Fine Arts, graphic design, advertising, visual communications, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in a creative role in an agency or creative environment (e.g., art director, designer
• A standout portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, sophisticated art direction, and integrated campaigns.
• Proficiency with creative tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma)
• Proven ability to translate complex products, services, or business propositions into compelling visual ideas.
• Strong command of visual identity, typography, composition, and storytelling.
• Experience taking a hero concept and building it into a cohesive, scalable creative system.
• Experience directing designers and production partners.
• Strong presentation and creative rationale skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with demanding creative standards.

Bonus Points For:

• Enterprise B2B experience.
• Technology, SaaS, MarTech, or another complex category.
• Large-scale brand and campaign systems.
• Thought leadership and content programs.
• Video, motion, digital, and social art direction.
• Modular creative systems and asset hierarchies.
• Familiarity with emerging AI-enabled creative workflows.

Portfolio Requirements

Please include a portfolio link and resume with your application.

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.

Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
Tuition Assistance
Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
Matching Gifts programs
Flexible working arrangements
'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $135,765.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/30/2026.