Senior Art Director

Kettle

• $140K — $170K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in digital design and art direction
  • Proven collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams
  • Strong client management abilities, especially with senior stakeholders
  • Mastery of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Keynote; experience with Figma and Sketch is a plus
  • Experience in both in-house and agency settings is a bonus

Responsibilities

  • Drive distinctive, on-brand digital design solutions that exceed project goals
  • Communicate complex design concepts effectively to clients and teams
  • Stay ahead of design trends and integrate new technologies
  • Refine and champion agile design processes, establishing best practices
  • Serve as a proactive individual contributor and team lead
  • Solicit and integrate feedback to enhance design outcomes

Benefits

  • On-site collaboration for 2-3 months at a time, transitioning to remote work
  • Opportunity to lead impactful digital projects for a major client
  • Exposure to a dynamic environment with diverse industries
  • Collaborative culture with cross-functional partners
  • Potential for mentorship by guiding junior designers
Full Job Description
We are hiring Senior Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, youll partner with our internal Creative and Production teams, and the client, to design best-in-class digital experiences and solutions. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may be for you.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Candidates should have:
  • Hands-on experience in digital design and art direction, leading projects and initiatives, and consistently delivering pixel perfect designs, while innovating work across a variety of industries
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners, and some experience mentoring more junior team members
  • Strong client collaboration and management skills, with a proven ability to present and defend design strategies to senior-level clients and stakeholders
  • Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus, with the ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies
  • While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies

Wed like to know that you can:
  • Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions-consistently exceeding project goals and setting new creative benchmarks
  • Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences
  • Proactively stay ahead of emerging design practices and technologies, identifying and integrating industry trends to elevate both design quality and user experience across projects
  • Champion and refine agile design processes, establishing best practices and raising the bar for design standards throughout the organization
  • Serve as both a collaborative team lead, and a highly proactive individual contributor, inspiring others through example and initiative
  • Actively solicit, interpret, and integrate feedback from diverse sources, leveraging it to enhance design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - $170k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

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