Responsibilities

• Interrogate the brief, identify the human or cultural insight, and develop several distinct visual and campaign territories before converging on a direction.
• Partner closely with copywriters, strategists, designers, and creative leaders to connect every visual decision to the core idea and client objective.
• Think in integrated campaign systems across paid, owned, earned, social, digital, experiential, OOH, film, and emerging channels.
• Define the visual world for an idea - including art direction, design language, typography, composition, image style, motion behavior, and channel expression.
• Create reference boards, keyframes, storyboards, prototypes, presentation visuals, and high-fidelity comps that make concepts easy to understand and exciting to buy.
• Direct designers, photographers, illustrators, editors, animators, and other production partners from concept through final execution while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Use generative AI and other emerging tools deliberately during concept exploration, visual development, comp creation, storyboarding, and custom image development.
• Write and refine prompts, curate outputs, composite and retouch generated imagery, and maintain consistency in people, products, environments, lighting, and brand expression across a visual system.
• Apply strong judgment to when AI adds value and when another approach is better. Clearly distinguish exploratory comps from production-ready assets and follow client, legal, privacy, licensing, and brand-safety requirements.
• Document effective prompts and workflows so promising approaches can be repeated and improved across the creative team.

Requirements

• A portfolio that demonstrates original conceptual campaign thinking, strong visual storytelling, and exceptional craft across multiple channels.
• 3-5 years of experience, ideally in an advertising agency or similarly fast-paced creative environment, meeting tight deadlines.
• The ability to move from strategy and insight to a big idea, then build a cohesive visual system and execute it at a high level.
• Strong art direction, design, typography, composition, image-making, and presentation skills.
• Hands-on fluency with Adobe Creative Suite and experience using generative AI tools for concepting, comps, storyboards, and image development.
• The judgment to curate and refine AI outputs, assess production feasibility, and protect originality, brand integrity, and responsible-use standards.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach; comfort giving and receiving feedback; and the ability to work independently when a lean team needs it.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a drive to create work that stands apart from the expected.

Benefits

• Hybrid flexibility - RP3 is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, so if you are DMV-based, that is definitely a bonus — but not a barrier. If you can get here by train, plane, or automobile, you are in the running. We want the right person, wherever they are.
• A culture built on curiosity, kindness, accountability, and wildly original thinking
• Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
• Employee-paid dental and vision plans
• 401(k) with immediate employer match
• Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
• Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
• Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
• Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance