Art Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$66K/yr – $102K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own and communicate concepts and campaigns from ideation through delivery, coordinating cross‑functional teams and client workstreams.

  • Own concepts and storytelling aligned with client goals
  • Lead concept development, design, and execution across channels
  • Collaborate with copywriters and leadership to elevate creative performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creating and communicating concepts that intrigue and inspire both your peers and clients — with a smart rationale to back them up.
  • Designing comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts and final deliverables.
  • Brainstorming and developing campaigns while working with clients on multiple projects at once.
  • Collaborating and partnering with copywriters to ensure that both the copy and the visuals are in perfect sync to make the concept as powerful, vivid and compelling as possible.
  • Assisting the Creative Director to improve the Creative group’s technical and creative performance.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of experience as a social-first Art Director.
  • Energy, a sense of humor, and an open and curious mind (yes, these things really do matter).
  • Exceptional conceptual and design skills and a robust portfolio that shows your talent in both print and Web.
  • Strong experience on large cross-channel and/or direct-marketing initiatives across media, both online and off.
  • Strong expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, in-depth understanding of HTML/dHTML and Web browser capabilities, and strong typographical, motion graphic and interaction design skills, including Flash, Ajax, Flex and emerging platforms.
  • A willingness to travel as needed (hey, new places, new faces, new inspiration — right?).
  • A four-year degree, plus two to four years of art direction and strong digital design work experience.
  • A knack for strategic brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development and creative execution.
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

  • Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.
  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Digitas North America

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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$66K/yr – $102K/yr

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Art Director

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