Art Director
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemotePart TimeSenior LevelMedium
Part TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Art-direct photography, video, and illustration for marketing campaigns, events, and sales enablement assets while owning the brand's visual identity and guidelines. Set design standards for layout, color, and typography across paid ads, web, social, and email, briefing freelance illustrators and external agencies to execute. Partner with copywriters, product marketing, and product design to translate briefs into cohesive visual outcomes, maintaining quality across in-house and outsourced deliverables. Manage vendor relationships and hold contractors to the same craft bar as internal teams.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in brand and marketing design
- ideally in B2B SaaS or developer-focused tech
- agency experience
- in-house function experience
- experience pairing with a copywriter to concept and deliver campaigns end-to-end
- experience directing designers, motion artists or production subcontractors
- portfolio showing brand systems thinking
- experience art-directing photography or video
- experience briefing illustrators
- proven track record owning a brand end-to-end
- experience with guidelines, evolution, governance, application across channels
- deep craft across digital advertising, web, social, events and sales collateral
- hands-on experience directing photography, video and illustration
- experience briefing and holding external agencies and freelancers to a quality bar
- comfort being the most senior designer in the room
- experience setting direction, giving feedback, defending decisions, partnering with marketing leadership
- understanding of Content Design and UX basics
- comfort partnering with Product Design to keep brand and product visually coherent
- strong communication skills to translate vague briefs into clear visual outcomes for non-designers
- familiarity with Figma
- familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite
- familiarity with modern web workflows
- self-directed and outcome-oriented mindset
- ability to prioritise across competing demands without constant steering
- ability to take feedback well
- collaborative work style
- ability to guide others toward best practice
- remote-first work capability
- flexibility to work remotely within the country listed in the job posting
Desired Qualifications
- Webflow experience
- Motion design skills strong enough to execute some of this work yourself
- illustration skills strong enough to execute some of this work yourself
- video editing skills strong enough to execute some of this work yourself
- experience designing for technical / developer audiences
- experience evolving a brand identity
- familiarity with mobile development, DevOps, or CI/CD
- experience working closely with content and demand gen teams on integrated campaigns
- experience using AI creative tools (Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Runway or similar)
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