Art Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $101K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual storytelling design for entertainment and culture driven campaigns, turning direction into polished systems and assets across experiential, digital and print channels.

  • Campaign Design & Visual Systems: translate direction into cohesive, production-ready visuals for campaigns across media.
  • IP & Audience Insight: dive into client IP and fan networks to spark authentic, culturally tuned ideas.
  • Production Readiness & Collaboration: ensure ideas are executable with production teams and craft client-ready decks and materials.

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Concept and design creative work across experiential, digital, social, print, presentation, and brand campaign materials.
  • Translate creative direction into polished visual systems, layouts, mockups, decks, and production-ready assets.
  • Develop visual worlds for entertainment and storytelling-led campaigns across titles, genres, fandoms and cultural moments.
  • Apply strong design fundamentals across typography, composition, color, hierarchy, image-making, layout, and brand systems.
  • Create client-ready presentations that are visually elevated, strategically clear, and well organized.
  • Prepare clean, accurate files for print, digital, social, and experiential production.
  • Collaborate closely with Creative Directors, ACDs, writers, strategists, account leads, producers, and external partners to develop and refine creative work.
  • Partner with production and fabrication teams to ensure ideas are executable, scalable, and produced at a high standard.
  • Contribute to brainstorms with ideas, visual references, cultural insights, and relevant design inspiration.
  • Research trends across entertainment, design, culture, experiential, social, and emerging media to help inform the work. Dive deep into our clients’ IP (and its fan networks) to develop exciting new ways of engaging consumers and target audiences thoughtfully and with authenticity.
Requirements
  • 3-5+ years of design or art direction experience in an agency environment, ideally within experiential, entertainment, branding, or integrated marketing.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating design fundamentals, visual thinking, craft, taste, and attention to detail.
  • Fluency in typography, color, composition, hierarchy, image selection, branding, and layout.
  • Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, especially InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, with strong Google Suite skills across Slides, Docs and Sheets.
  • Experience designing pitch decks, client presentations, campaign materials, and production-ready files across print, digital, and environmental formats.
  • Ability to work quickly, accurately, and calmly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain creative decisions and respond thoughtfully to feedback.
  • Curious and culturally engaged, with a strong interest in entertainment, storytelling, fandoms, design trends, and emerging creative formats.
  • Proactive, resourceful, and collaborative, with the ability to take direction, ask smart questions, and move work forward without every step being prescribed.
  • Comfort working closely with creative, account, strategy, and production teams.
Nice to Have
  • Experience with AI tools, motion, video, 3D, Figma, Keynote, After Effects or Premiere is a plus.
  • Passion for audio, entertainment, books, podcasts, genre storytelling, fandom or live experiences is a strong plus.
Benefits
  • A positive, fun, supportive, and diverse team environment, with opportunities for advancement and a commitment to staff development and growth
  • Competitive salary and incentives
  • Full benefits package including dental and vision, and retirement plan with employer match
  • Best-in-class parental leave benefits
  • Paid time off and encouragement to take time off for self-care
  • Hybrid work schedule
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CIVIC

We’re CIVIC, a Seacrest Global company. We are an Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, 2024.Since 1999, we’ve led the way in cultural marketing, providing integrated solutions to top-tier brands including Ford, HBO, Verizon, Airbnb, Snap, A&E, Facebook, CNN, NFL and NBC, among many others. We’re known for big ideas -- creating long-term brand platforms designed to impact culture, address the biggest societal issues, build loyalty, stimulate work of mouth and generate client revenue. In 2012, the Seacrest Global Group took notice of us and acquired a stake in CIVIC with the vision of continuing to build this world-class marketing services agency that creates unique engagements among media, entertainment, technology, sports and consumer brands.Our broad suite of integrated marketing services includes:▪ Brand Strategy▪ Consumer Insights & Cultural Trends▪ Concept and Creative Development▪ Live Event Creation and Production▪ Partnership Identification, Evaluation, Negotiation and Management▪ Content Development and Execution▪ Proprietary Brand Experiences and Activation▪ Pro-Social Campaigns▪ PR/Media Relations▪ Social and Mobile MarketingOur family consists of 100+ creative thought-leaders working across multiple disciplines in NYC and LA. We know entertainment and sports as well as we know politics and education. We’re captains of our college crew teams, former speechwriters for governors, sneaker collectors and artists. Conveners of thought, we love the IG candy we create for our clients as much as a deep dive into issues of community building and social justice. We’re experts not just in what’s hip and now. We love what’s meaningful and good.We’re CIVIC by name, and civic by nature.

Founded in 1999
New York, New York, USA
201 employees (68 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.3%
Direct
51.9%
Referral
5.5%
Social
15.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~201

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
37 (18% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2