Art Director

USA (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the core idea development for purpose-driven campaigns, turning strategy and audience insight into multi-channel concepts that can scale across video, print, social, and live activations.

  • Creative Concepting: Translate strategy and insights into clear ideas that resonate with real communities across media.
  • Campaign Craft: Develop mood boards, storyboards, decks, and activation concepts to sell the work.
  • Collaboration and Execution: Guide designers and producers through production with cultural sensitivity and strategic justification.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with copywriters, digital strategists, account staff, and others to develop campaign concepts for purpose-driven clients.
  • Translate strategy, audience insights, and complex issues into ideas that are clear, compelling, and actionable.
  • Create ideas that can live across a wide variety of media including video, print, interactive, social, out-of-home, and in-person activations.
  • Develop mood boards, visual treatments, storyboards, social concepts, activation ideas, pitch visuals, presentation decks, and other materials that help sell and shape the work.
  • Clearly explain creative ideas, and the strategic thinking behind them, internally and to clients.
  • Work with designers and production partners to bring ideas to life, providing clear direction while respecting the craft and expertise of the broader creative team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in art direction, design, or integrated campaign development, preferably in an agency or in-house creative department.
  • A portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking, visual craft, and the ability to turn strategy into compelling creative.
  • Experience developing campaign concepts across multiple channels
  • Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign). Familiarity with motion, prototyping, or Ai tools a bonus.
  • Strong conceptual thinking skills and can generate compelling campaign ideas, not just create visually appealing work.
  • The care, judgment, and cultural awareness needed for purpose-driven work, with an understanding that our campaigns often involve nuanced issues, real communities, and sensitive subject matter.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with motion, prototyping, or Ai tools a bonus.

Benefits

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    GMMB

    We’re bold. We’re brave. We’re unstoppable.GMMB is an agency on a mission: to cause the effect. We come from diverse backgrounds—political campaigns, nonprofits, creative agencies and the media—but the one thing we all have in common is our drive to create real, meaningful change. Whether we’re focused on getting kids healthier, improving schools, advancing laws or electing progressive leaders, we’re not in this business to sell products. We’re here to spread ideas that will transform our world into a better, kinder, fairer place. Since 1983, our agency has tackled a broad range of issues, including environmental protection, community service, education and health reform. We’ve helped elect presidents at home and abroad, fought for stricter regulations on tobacco and drunk driving, and united children in foster care with their forever families. And we’ve built an impressive client base that shares our passion for doing work that matters.Creating real and lasting change in the world: It’s what we do. Are you with us?

    Founded in 1983
    Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    231 employees (66 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    7.6K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    29.6%
    Direct
    54.6%
    Referral
    5.3%
    Social
    9.4%
    Paid
    1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~231

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    45 (19% of company)
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    2