Job description

The art director’s role is focused on digital, creative and strategic innovation. This includes creatively applying a concept utilising digital innovation across digital channels to ensure a seamless, strategic digital journey to meet client briefs and their expectations.Job objectives

Leadership

• Providing leadership and direction that harnesses the power of the collective team to achieve our business objectives
• Drive leadership in terms of Digital Design for our business and for clients
• Provide direct leadership and growth to team members and relevant resources
• Implementing and driving departmental targets and goals, helping each team member to achieve these goals

Strategic/analytics

• Identify platform relevant innovations (eg. Google Marketing Platform, social channels, etc.) in order to share findings with team members
• Conduct research on the latest design industry trends (weekly) in order to enhance our creative offerings.
• Consistently research and update knowledge and skills on industry tools in order to remain relevant.

Consultancy (internal/external)

• Assist and manage junior/intermediate designers within the creative team
• Creative collaboration in order to drive conceptual development that can be expanded into multiple digital platforms/channels.
• Contributing to knowledge share sessions within the creative team in order to educate and drive experimentation of the new knowledge gained through research.
• Support overall team performance by enabling fluidity of skills/expertise transfer into other areas of the team.
• Ensure that creative outputs are in line with specifications required by platform partners in order for them to execute client campaigns seamlessly
• Ensure that SLA’s with external clients and platform partners are managed within efficient turn around times, in order to mitigate risks between platforms and clients.
• Delivery of Creative Digital Design presentations to internal team and external clients as and when required

Delivery

• When required, ensure smooth running and delivery of all job outputs within the creative department
• Oversee and checking QA of all Junior team members creative work prior to escalation to the Head of Creative
• Adapting and craft digital executions from an existing concept for digital outputs, in order to ensure the correct application on digital platforms
• Ensure that daily billable hours are met in line with the company’s quarterly targets for self and junior team members
• Contributing, building and growing innovation within a digital creative aspect
• Day to day digital design for campaigns that are platform or channel-specific.
• Consistent and timely reporting of tasks/activities in order to ensure efficiency in studio management.
• Ensure that all creative output is presented in an acceptable manner to the client (Google Slides/Keynote).
• Clear communications with the operations division in order to ensure that deliverables correlate to creative time estimations.
• Consistent communication around team dynamics and workflow efficiencies in order to drive a progressive work environment
• Attend client briefings in order to define the direction of a creative brief

Experience:

Operational
? 5+ years experience in Digital Design within an Agency environment (essential)
? Intermediate level of experience using Google Suite (Docs, Drive, Calendar, Slides, Sheets, Hangouts etc.)
? Intermediate level of experience using agile working systems (Workflowmax, Trello)

Consultancy
? 3+ Years of experience managing teams of people

Technical
? 5+ Years experience using Adobe Creative Suite (essential)
? Intermediate level of experience working in InVision and Sketch (desirable)

Industry Specific
? 3+ Years experience within a Digital Marketing environment (essential)

Operational knowledge

• Knowledge of effective methods to derive and interpret client objectives.
• Knowledge of the broader design fields (graphic, multimedia, copywriting etc.)
• Knowledge of design principles
• Knowledge of design processes

Industry knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of digital design trends and latest industry innovations
• Knowledge and understanding of the latest trends and their role within a commercial environment
• Knowledge of TTL advertising

Technical knowledge

• Knowledge of digital platforms and channels (formats and outputs)
• Knowledge of Multichannel platform integration
• Knowledge of Multi programme integration (e.g. Adobe Illustrator to Photoshop)
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

Skills requirements

• Excellent werbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to be agile, and adapt the creative to changing trends in the industry
• Ability to have a high propensity to learn quickly
• Ability to understand and work on the intricacies of social and digital platforms/channels
• Ability to use Google Web Designer
• Key focus on attention to detail to ensure accuracy of design/interactive artwork supplied to platforms/channels
• Ability to determine which creative will best be suited on a specific platform
• Well-rounded skills using Creative Suite (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD) as well as Sketch and InVision
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Ability to work within a team and independently

Posted on 13 Nov 11:13