Brand Art Director

New York, USA (On-site)

$78K/yr – $142K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand identity and creative execution for The Trade Desk across campaigns, events, and product experiences.

  • Own concepting, art direction, and execution across events, campaigns, and programs.
  • Must-have: 6–10 years of agency or global-brand experience with leadership.
  • Standout: strong identity systems experience and cross-channel execution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape and scale The Trade Desk’s visual brand identity — creating work that sets the standards and raises the bar across every channel and format we show up in.
  • Partner with our Brand, Product Marketing, Digital, Social and Events teams to create brand-consistent creative across campaigns, programs, and initiatives.
  • Own the creative for a high volume of events, campaigns, and programs — from large-scale global experiences and industry conferences to product and education initiatives like Edge Academy. This means concepting, art directing, and executing across environmental design, digital advertising, social, video, and web.
  • Ensure brand consistency across all touchpoints — contributing to the development, documentation, and stewardship of our visual identity and brand system.
  • This is an Individual Contributor role, and you will balance working independently and in close collaboration with the creative director, art directors, copywriters, designers, editors, and producers.

Requirements

  • 6-10 years of experience focused on developing creative work at an agency or in-house for an established global B2B or B2C brand, with at least 2 of those years leading/concepting projects and working with senior leadership.
  • A brand thinker with range — your portfolio leads with identity and systems work, but you’re equally comfortable executing across campaigns, events, social, and digital.
  • Confident presenting your work and rationale to stakeholders — you can walk a room through creative decisions, hold a point of view under pressure, and advocate for the work without being precious about it.
  • Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma, with working knowledge of or active curiosity about AI tools — and how they can accelerate process, push creative, and evolve brand systems.
  • A strong design eye — typography, composition, hierarchy, color — with taste that shows in everything you make.
  • You make it easy. You’re as organized and reliable as you are talented — you deliver on time, listen well, and make the people around you better. When creative direction shifts or scope changes, you adapt without drama and find a way to make the work stronger for it.
  • Experience in motion graphics, on-set art direction, and/or working with web developers is a plus. #LI-LM2

Benefits

  • comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
  • retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
  • short and long-term disability coverage
  • basic life insurance
  • well-being benefits
  • reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
  • parential leave
  • sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
  • vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
  • around 13 paid holidays per year
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The Trade Desk

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It's more than just clicks.Premium streaming TV. One-click commerce. Trusted journalism. The world’s most popular audio and podcasts. All these amazing online experiences thrive on an open internet. And they’re all fueled by relevant advertising.That’s why we created an independent media buying platform designed for the open internet.One that helps brands grow and thrive by giving them access to more: more customers engaging with more of the content they love across more channels and devices, and more transparency and precision at every stage.

Founded in 2009
Ventura, California, USA
4.6K employees (289 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
643.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$191.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.5%
Direct
56.8%
Referral
5.9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
222 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$257.5M
Last Raise
$125M
Post IPO Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2021
    Post IPO Equity
  • May 2016
    Debt Financing • $125M
  • Mar 2016
    Series C • $60M

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