Associate Art Director

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$122K/yr - $135K/yr (Est.)Mid Level5+ years expSalaried Ft

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and guide day-to-day visual direction across multi-channel campaigns, taking creative from concept to polished static and motion assets while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

  • Lead design execution across paid media and print variances.
  • Coordinate with copy, strategy, media and production to ensure consistent visual direction across markets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and Art Direct Static Creative: Personally design campaign creative across paid social, digital, OOH, print, CRM and other channels while maintaining a high level of visual craft.
  • Develop Integrated Campaign Creative: Help develop larger campaign ideas and visual directions, then carry those ideas through specific executions across channels and markets.
  • Own Day-to-Day Visual Direction: Take established campaign and creative direction and independently carry it through ongoing creative development, making strong design decisions without requiring senior creative involvement at every step.
  • Create for Paid Media: Develop new hooks, layouts, offers, CTAs and variations while understanding the role different placements play within the media plan.
  • Build files for print production: Adapt concepts and looks for print media, including print collateral and out of home. Understanding of print rules/methods a plus.
  • Direct Creative Across Media Specs: Ensure campaign ideas translate effectively across different sizes, aspect ratios, formats, platforms and technical requirements, with strong attention to detail.
  • Create for Entertainment and Experiences: Build creative around entertainment titles, attractions, destinations, products and other specific reasons for audiences to engage.
  • Work Across Markets and Brands: Adapt creative across multiple locations, audiences and established brand or entertainment IP guidelines while maintaining consistency across the broader campaign.
  • Build Flexible Creative Systems: Develop campaign structures that can support regular creative refreshes, new offers, changing content and high-volume versioning without requiring every execution to start from scratch.
  • Think Social-First When Appropriate: Develop creative that feels natural within social environments, using platform behaviors and content formats while staying connected to the broader campaign idea.

Requirements

  • Strong Design Craft: Excellent typography, layout, image selection, compositing and campaign design skills.
  • Relevant Experience: 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally within an agency or fast-moving consumer brand environment.
  • Hands-On Design Experience: A portfolio demonstrating that you can personally take creative from concept through polished final static executions, not simply oversee the work of other designers.
  • Concept and Execution: Comfort moving between larger campaign thinking and detailed day-to-day design execution.
  • Integrated and Paid Media Experience: Experience developing creative across integrated campaigns, paid media, digital and social.
  • Media Literacy: A strong understanding of how creative works within paid media, including placements, formats, audience needs and campaign objectives.
  • Spec-Driven Production: Experience working across high volumes of creative with detailed media specs, versions and production requirements.
  • Relevant Category Experience: Entertainment, location-based entertainment, hospitality, retail or major consumer-brand experience.
  • Brand and IP Experience: Experience working within established brand or entertainment IP guidelines and adapting across different visual worlds.
  • Design Tools: Advanced Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma skills. InDesign is a plus.

Benefits

  • This position will be eligible to participate in the standard benefits offered to full-time employees of Allied Global Marketing (medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability and life insurance as well as 401k and Flexible PTO). We also offer 10 company paid holidays.
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Allied Global Marketing

In business for over 30 years, Allied has built upon its roots in film advertising and publicity to become a global leader in entertainment, culture, and lifestyle marketing. Allied’s award-winning team of specialists, over 400 strong across 23 global offices, create campaigns that drive conversion for some of the world’s biggest brands in film, TV, sports, gaming, live entertainment, cultural institutions, hospitality, and consumer brands. Our teams provide best-in-class marketing solutions across a range of services including integrated paid, owned, and earned media, creative solutions, and strategic consulting.

Founded in 1986
Los Angeles, California, USA
715 employees (259 in marketing)

Salaries

SalaryGuide estimate

$122K/yr – $135K/yr

Modelled from 7 comparable roles.

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Funding

Last Raise
Corporate Round, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2019
    Corporate Round

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7.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.2%
Direct
51.7%
Referral
5.7%
Social
4.1%
Paid
1.3%

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Current headcount: ~715

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