Senior Art Director

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $145K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the enterprise visual identity and brand platform, translating strategy into cohesive visuals across digital and print while unifying UX, marketing, and comms into a single creative system.

  • Translate complex requirements into compelling visual narratives and manage design systems, templates, and governance.
  • Guide vendor output and high-priority campaigns, using performance data for continuous improvement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and evolution of the enterprise visual identity, brand platform, and creative direction.
  • Oversee concept creation, storyboarding, design planning, and visual storytelling for digital and print materials.
  • Direct creative teams in producing graphics, campaign assets, multimedia, and integrated visual products.
  • Ensure consistency of brand voice and visual design across all communication channels and content types.
  • Collaborate with UX, multimedia, marketing, and communications teams to unify creative approaches.
  • Review and approve design deliverables, ensuring adherence to accessibility, quality, and brand standards.
  • Guide development of templates, component libraries, creative toolkits, and visual governance artifacts.
  • Translate complex strategic and technical requirements into compelling visual narratives.
  • Oversee vendor or subcontractor creative output to ensure alignment with enterprise expectations.
  • Support high-priority campaigns, leadership communications, and mission-critical design needs.
  • Analyze creative performance metrics and incorporate insights into continuous creative improvement.

Requirements

  • Strong creative leadership and ability to define visual strategy.
  • Exceptional communication skills for interacting with stakeholders and design teams.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive high-quality creative execution.
  • Strong attention to detail, brand consistency, and design rigor.
  • Ability to guide, mentor, and elevate multidisciplinary creative teams.
  • Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
  • Deep understanding of visual hierarchy, layout, color theory, typography, and accessibility (508/WCAG).
  • Experience with design systems, component libraries, and brand governance.
  • Ability to translate abstract concepts and strategic inputs into compelling visual communication.
  • Demonstrated success leading visual strategy across digital, print, and multimedia platforms.
  • Experience producing unified visual systems, brand standards, and enterprise design frameworks.

Preferred

  • Experience working in federal government, defense, or public sector campaigns.

Benefits

  • Family & parental support
  • 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
  • Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
  • Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
  • 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
  • $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
  • $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
  • Healthcare & wellbeing
  • Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
  • $0 employee-cost dental and vision
  • 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)
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M+C Saatchi Group

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M+C Saatchi Group is a global creative solutions company and the world’s largest independent creative network. We connect specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands, solve the most complex business and societal challenges, and create and curate Cultural Power for our clients.

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
1.3K employees (474 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
52.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.1%
Direct
45.7%
Referral
7.1%
Social
8.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
210 (16% of company)
Median Career Experience
7 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
10

Funding

Total Funding
$66.5M
Last Raise
$66.5M
Post IPO Debt, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Post IPO Debt • $66.5M

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