The Marketing Store Worldwide

Senior Art Director

The Marketing Store Worldwide$93K — $98K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of art direction and design experience in agency or brand environments
  • Experience in CPG or retail, specifically in promotions and character story design for kids
  • Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and familiarity with Figma and/or Sketch
  • Strong portfolio showcasing conceptual thinking and flawless execution
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to inspire and present ideas
  • Attention to detail with a focus on user experience
  • Exceptional organizational skills to manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver compelling and creative work that meets project briefs and pushes boundaries.
  • Manage daily creative delivery, project execution, and development.
  • Design engaging presentations for clients.
  • Present strategic ideas confidently to clients and larger groups.
  • Develop and maintain an understanding of client brands, consumers, and competition to enhance brand engagement.
  • Create brand and product guidelines to define visual identity across various channels.
  • Supervise and craft engaging digital experiences, coaching internal teams and clients on best practices.

Benefits

  • Generous medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
  • Paid parental and medical leave programs
  • 401(k) with company match and profit sharing
  • 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
  • Hybrid work model
  • Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
  • Inclusive employee resource groups.
Full Job Description
WHAT WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

Do you love story-telling and using your imagination to build worlds for kids and parents while creating experiences that take them on a journey into something magical? Then this is the perfect gig for you.

We're looking for a Senior Art Director to join our rapidly growing team here at tms. As Senior Art Director, you'll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, is obsessed with ideas, and champions out-of-the-box thinking. Working seamlessly as a part of a passionate, multi-disciplinary group, you'll have the opportunity to concept and create original work and experiences that drive consumer engagement while building emotional connections. From coming up with inventive story-lines to developing characters and building out digital moments, games, and experiences, you'll wear many hats and be responsible for all aspects of the visual creative. Presenting and working with clients is also your jam, and you excel at bringing ideas to life in compelling and innovative ways.

Comfortable diving in on new projects, you enjoy ideating big concepts just as much as producing stellar design work. You are someone that has the drive to take design thinking and possibilities to the next level. Always eager to add a new layer into the mix and bring a unique POV to the table, you not only have the passion to push yourself, but you inspire and push others.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION

  • Delivers work that is compelling, creative, on brief and outside the box
  • Manages the day-to-day creative delivery, project execution and creative development
  • Ability to design and create dynamic and engaging presentations for our clients
  • Confidently present fresh perspective and big idea thinking (that's strategically grounded) to a larger group or to our clients
  • Develop and maintain a solid understanding and working knowledge of client's business, brand, consumer, and competitive landscape to inform insightful brand engagements
  • Build, develop and create brand and product guidelines that help define the visual look and feel of the brand (and other brand products) through various channels and applications
  • Supervise and craft engaging digital experiences. Confidently speak to and coach both internal teams and our clients on best-in-class digital experience design
  • Collaborate with clients and internal partners: marketing, technology, product, developers etc.
  • Stay current with design trends and how technology and standard methodologies are evolving in the industry - proactively identifying design capabilities and opportunities that should be adopted within the team


SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

  • 4+ years of proven art direction and design experience in an agency or brand space; Exp. working within the CPG space or retail space (working in promotions, games, and character story design within the kids space a big plus)
  • Experience (and examples) of building out large-scale brand and product guidelines
  • Expert proficiency and considerable hands-on experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator) and Figma and/or Sketch
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, able to inspire others and sell creative vision
  • Strong grasp of design around typography, color, photography, layout design, hierarchy, and user experience (motion graphics is a plus)
  • Strong portfolio with examples of recent projects demonstrating conceptual concepting, creative thinking and flawless execution
  • Experience developing tv and/or online video storyboards, and knowledge of the production, casting and execution of them
  • Experience in packaging design and POP display is a plus
  • Have critical attention to detail (we're talking down to the pixel) while not missing the big picture
  • Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client projects and demands at once


Starting salary between $93,000-$98,000

TOTAL REWARDS

Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant:

  • Our commitment to rewarding results
  • Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers'-and our company's-success


There's more ...

Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits

Paid parental and medical leave programs

401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing

15 days of paid time off plus company holidays

Hybrid work model

Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance

Inclusive employee resource groups

About The Marketing Store Worldwide

The Marketing Store Worldwide is a global customer engagement agency that specializes in creating personalized experiences for brands and their customers. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and has offices in more than 10 countries. The Marketing Store's services include loyalty programs, digital marketing, social media, and experiential marketing. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including McDonald's, Nissan, and Coca-Cola. The Marketing Store was founded in 1986 and has a long history of innovation and creativity in the industry.
Learn more about The Marketing Store Worldwide
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
$10 million
Founded
1986
5 Year Trend
+5%
Revenue
$200 million

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