Job description

We’re a leading advertising agency in Port Elizabeth looking for a conceptual Art Director/Designer. Do you have the ability to unlock exciting and relevant concepts within teams? Do you have the creative passion to generate award-winning results that meet or exceed the client’s expectations? If your main goal is to translate marketing and branding strategies into innovative and impressive campaigns that stimulate targeted audiences – we want to talk to you.

When submitting your CV include the following:

• CV
• Portfolio
• Link to an online portfolio showcasing your work

Job Requirements:

• Relevant degree/qualification min.
• Three to five+ years’ experience essential.
• Previous agency experience.
• Must have strong conceptual skills.
• Strong on running and meeting tight deadlines.
• Able to do design, conceptualisation, etc.
• FMCG background an added advantage.
• Proven working experience as an Art Director.
• The consistent ability to produce and communicate fresh ideas and visual concepts.
• High levels of motivation and perseverance with a strong belief in your ideas, plus the skills and confidence to express them.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work and multi-task.
• The ability to work as part of a team.
• Acute observation and an eye for detail.
• Team player with strong communication and presentation skills.

Company Description

Creativity. It’s not just a word, it’s an ethos, it fuels the energy that drives us as an advertising agency in order to deliver dynamic solutions for our clients.

It’s a collaboration of our strong multi-disciplinary teams that through collective creativity sees the possibilities that others don’t.

At Boomtown, we delve into what drives the modern consumer and move beyond tired, conventional marketing strategies to find innovative, creative, and ultimately effective ways to bring brands to life.

To believe in the ability to see what could be rather than what is, and the knowledge that in each and every one of us, and in each and every project we undertake for our clients, is the ability to achieve what others only dream of, the realisation of the possibility.

Requirements

• Work with other disciplines (strategists, media, accounts, etc.) to ensure cohesive team integration and alignment with broader business objectives. 
• Work with copywriters/strategists/digital to interpret briefs and deliver fresh ideas.
• Lead brainstorms and conceptualisation.
• Lead the craft and art direction of an idea across multiple channels.
• Take work from concept to final execution within deadlines.
• Present completed ideas to clients/team members.
• Stay on top of all trends and maintain best practices.
• Be able to mock-up creative ideas and define the overall aesthetic of campaigns.
• Ability to attend client briefings, compile presentations and present to clients.
• Participate in pitches for new business.
• Perform any other duties as reasonably requested.

Posted on 13 Sep 10:44