Freelance Digital Art Director (Advertising)

We're looking for a Freelance Art Director with strong digital-first experience who is very familiar with production in an agency environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute visually compelling campaigns that align with client objectives and target audience preferences
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients
• Understands social media platforms and the different communities across each platform
• Stay up-to-date with emerging design trends, social media platform updates, and industry best practices to ensure the agency is at the forefront of innovation
• Proven Art Direction skills coupled with meticulous design fortitude
• Capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency
• Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback
• Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team
• Provides excellent level concept guidance and approvals
• Assists in developing company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work
• Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique company POV
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field
• Big plus if you can also do motion design

Competencies:

• Execution - ability to prioritise and deliver effectively with autonomy.
• Leadership - ability to maintain self-awareness and self-motivation while creating an impact through sharing, learning, innovation and company culture sustainability.
• Empathy - ability to show compassion, manage diverse personalities while cultivating a sense of understanding.
• Communication - ability to effectively interact, manage and inspire those around us.
• Strategic Thinking - ability to forecast decision outcomes and conduct sound business judgment.
• Adaptability - ability to change, be curious and naturally resilient to this ever changing world.
• Worked with teams in complex, multi-geography, multi-cultural environments.
• Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
• Natural ability to develop and maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems