Senior Art Director

Dentsu is a global leader in integrated growth and transformation, driving sustainable solutions and innovation for some of the world's most influential brands. Founded in 1901, dentsu operates in approximately 120 countries with a team of approximately 68,000 employees, and boasts a network of world-class brands, including Carat, Dentsu Creative, dentsu X, iProspect, Merkle, and more. These brands, each with deep expertise in media, creativity, and digital, collaborate to deliver integrated growth solutions that create lasting, meaningful impact.

Dentsu Creative is a global creative agency network operating in over 120 countries. Launched in June 2022, it combines Dentsu's Japanese heritage in craft, data, and technology with a deep understanding of media and culture. We deliver end-to-end solutions that drive transformative growth, leveraging our expertise in digital experience, earned attention, and entertainment. Dentsu Creative seamlessly integrates with Dentsu's Media and CXM businesses, applying creativity across every aspect of our clients businesses to help them innovate, shape culture, and lead the future. We connect brands with the world through the power of transformative creativity.

As we look toward the future, dentsu is focused on Innovating to impact—fostering collaboration, creativity, and cutting-edge technology to drive real, transformative change.

What your typical day will look like:

As a Senior Art Director, you'll lead the creative vision and visual direction of integrated campaigns, partnering closely with Copywriters, Strategists, Account Management, and Project Management teams to deliver impactful work across multiple channels. You'll transform business challenges into compelling creative ideas, ensuring every execution is strategically sound, visually engaging, and aligned with client objectives.

You'll take ownership of key client accounts, leading projects from concept to execution while inspiring and mentoring the creative team. As a trusted creative partner, you'll confidently present ideas to clients, provide strategic creative direction, and maintain the highest standards of craft across digital, social, print, video, experiential, and emerging platforms.

Core responsibilities include:

• Lead the development of creative concepts and visual direction for integrated campaigns, ensuring work is innovative, strategically aligned, and delivers measurable business impact.
• Oversee the creative execution of projects across multiple channels, acting as the brand guardian to maintain consistency, quality, and creative excellence.
• Partner closely with Creative, Strategy, Account Management, and Project Management teams to drive collaboration and ensure successful project delivery from briefing through production.
• Present and articulate creative ideas confidently to clients and stakeholders, building trust while providing clear creative rationale and direction.
• Mentor and inspire Art Directors, Designers, and Junior Creatives by providing constructive feedback, fostering growth, and cultivating a high-performing creative culture.
• Stay ahead of design trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices to continuously elevate the agency's creative output and capabilities.

A bit about you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Design, Fine Arts, Advertising, Visual Communication, or a related discipline, with advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and other relevant creative tools.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in a creative or advertising agency, with a strong portfolio demonstrating award-worthy conceptual thinking, integrated campaigns, and exceptional craft.
• Proven ability to lead creative projects from ideation to execution across digital, social, print, video, experiential, and other integrated marketing channels.
• Strong leadership, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with experience mentoring creative teams and confidently presenting to clients.
• A strategic and commercially minded creative who can translate business objectives into compelling visual solutions while balancing creativity, quality, and delivery.

What's in it for you:

• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• The opportunity to give back with dedicated volunteer leave and our whole-company event, One Day for Change
• 1 day of paid off day per month
• Career Development and Learning & Development opportunities, including access to our global online dentsu University
• Be part of a global network that truly invests in recognising performance with via our Never Before Awards, and social impact, including having a clearly mapped path to becoming net zero

Dentsu Values

Will live the dentsu 8 Ways at all times: We Dream Loud, We Inspire Change, We Team Without Limits, We All Lead, We Make It Real, We Climb High, We Choose Excitement, We Are A Force For Good.

Inclusion and Diversity

We're proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won't define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That's what we care about.

So, whether you're joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

Keeping connected

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www.dentsu.com

*Please include an updated CV and portfolio in your application.

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