Art Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$79/hr – $90/hrMid Level4+ years expContract

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead a multi-disciplinary creative team to translate business strategy into innovative design solutions, driving growth opportunities, and delivering on-time, high-quality artifacts across digital and traditional media.

  • Creative leadership: shape experience design, craft strategic briefs, and communicate concepts to clients and internal teams.
  • Team and process ownership: guide designers, writers, and IA, mentor talent, and evolve department methods for faster, higher-impact delivery.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: align with media, analytics, usability, and QA to maximize results and ensure client satisfaction.

Job Description

Lead a multi-disciplinary creative team to translate business strategy into innovative design solutions, driving growth opportunities, and delivering on-time, high-quality artifacts across digital and traditional media.

  • Creative leadership: shape experience design, craft strategic briefs, and communicate concepts to clients and internal teams.
  • Team and process ownership: guide designers, writers, and IA, mentor talent, and evolve department methods for faster, higher-impact delivery.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: align with media, analytics, usability, and QA to maximize results and ensure client satisfaction.
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Critical Mass

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Critical Mass is a team of 1,900 inspired folks based in 13 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients. We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Founded in 1996
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
1.8K employees (728 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
44% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.7%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
6.8%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
347 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

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