Art Director

Boston, MA (On-site)

$60K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual design lifecycle for social and digital campaigns, turning concept into polished assets across platforms with brand consistency, iterative asset resizing, and cross-team collaboration.

  • Lead production-heavy design across social channels and adapt assets to multiple platforms while upholding brand guidelines.
  • Shape video, print, and digital deliverables from concept through execution for campaigns and branding.
  • Stay ahead on digital and interactive design trends to inform cross-team and stakeholder decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop refined, production-heavy concepts and executions with a focus on social and digital media. Use experience in social media to incorporate creative/design/layout best practices for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn, YouTube and others.
  • Develop strong video, print and digital design for a wide range of assignments, including branding, layout, storyboarding, mockups, infographics, presentations, print collateral and signage.
  • Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
  • Be extremely comfortable creating iterative digital executions, such as resizes of campaign assets for various channels.
  • From concept to execution, bring an enthusiasm for solving design and marketing challenges throughout the life of a project, and amid stakeholder revisions.
  • Display an understanding of digital and interactive design principles.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
  • Present your work in internal meetings.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 2+ years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
  • Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software such as Keynote and PowerPoint.
  • Ongoing drive to understand emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
  • Basic or advanced knowledge in After Effects is preferred but not mandatory.
  • Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced).

Preferred

  • Education in advertising design and conceptual thinking is preferred.
  • Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, etc. Any artistic passion points are always a plus.
  • Knowledge of or strong interest in consumer electronics a plus.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k (with employer match)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
  • MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Paid Employee Family Leave
  • Family Building Benefit
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Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

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