OLIVER Agency - North America

Art Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$68K/yr – $76K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social creative engine that turns culture moments into polished content across organic and paid channels.

  • Creative development: translate briefs into culture-forward concepts and craft photo/video content with a strong brand voice.
  • Real-time social newsroom: monitor culture and respond to moments for multiple brands.
  • Production leadership: shoot, edit, retouch, and shepherd work from concept to delivery while collaborating with strategists and creative leaders.

Job Description

  • Concept culture-forward ideas, campaigns, and activations built for social-first audiences, extending across digital, traditional, and experiential
  • Operate in a social newsroom environment, identifying and responding to real-time cultural moments on behalf of clients brand portfolio
  • Plan, shoot, and edit photo and video content, applying a strong eye for craft, composition, storytelling, and brand voice
  • Partner with Social Strategists to shape creative content strategies across organic and paid channels
  • Present and articulate ideas clearly to Creative Directors and brand teams
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously from brief through final delivery, maintaining quality and consistency across all assets
  • A portfolio with a clear social and digital emphasis, demonstrating both conceptual thinking and hands-on production craft
  • Hands-on production skills: shooting, editing, retouching, and layout
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign) and/or Final Cut Pro
  • The ability to translate strategy into a visual idea, and a visual idea into polished, finished content
  • A genuine understanding of culture — entertainment, sports, gaming, and emerging platforms — and how brands participate meaningfully within them
  • Experience working in a social-first or newsroom-style creative environment
  • Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to art direction and visual production, used to enhance output quality and efficiency
  • Experience developing personal workflows to support ideation, concepting, and production
  • Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply considered human judgement
  • Agentic approach to creative problem-solving: breaking complex briefs into clear, actionable paths forward

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