Senior Art Director

Kettle

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience in digital design and art direction
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams
  • Proven ability to manage and present work to senior-level clients
  • Expertise in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Keynote; proficient in Figma and ideally Sketch
  • Experience in both in-house settings and creative agencies is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Drive the creation of innovative and on-brand digital design solutions
  • Communicate and present complex design concepts to internal and client audiences
  • Stay ahead of emerging design practices and integrate trends into projects
  • Champion agile design processes and establish best practices
  • Serve as a proactive team lead and individual contributor
  • Solicit and leverage feedback to enhance design outcomes

Benefits

  • Onsite collaboration for specific projects with remote options at other times
  • Opportunity to work with a Bay Area-based creative tech company
  • Mentoring opportunities for junior designers
  • Involvement in shaping best practices within an agile design framework
  • Exposure to diverse industries and client needs
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, you'll 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

We'd 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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