Responsibilities

• Lead, oversee, and execute art direction and production art for Shinesty’s marketing channels and brand touch points
• Actively contribute to the creation of marketing design assets while reviewing and providing feedback to the design team
• Collaborate with CDs and other C-level execs to evolve marketing brand guidelines, design systems, and best practices that establish clear rules, improve productivity, and most of all improve our performance
• Craft and refine smart style guides, brand guidelines, ad/email and other templates that provide a usable sandbox for junior production artists to be successful working. These should help artists be more creative within logical constraints and ensure final creatives are better and more consistent over time
• Hop in and execute on your vision for high-impact campaigns
• Build and deliver mood boards, creative decks, shot lists, and direction documents that guide photographers, production teams, and graphic designers
• Stay close to the work at every stage: reviewing, refining, and sending it back when it’s not ready, as well as executing.
• Art direct photo and video shoots with a clear picture of the final deliverable before you’re ever on set. You know what’s needed to balance brand/entertainment needs against conversion-driven deliverables.
• Oversee the development of creative and post-production assets, working with designers to ensure the agreed-upon vision is accomplished
• Work with creatives aligning on production logistics to achieve the set campaign strategy
• Hold weekly design check-ins
• Clearly communicate what’s on-brand and what isn’t
• Directly manage Graphic Designers, Videographer/Photographer, and Creative Production Coordinator
• Set a high bar and help the people around you clear it
• Build process where the team needs it
• Use AI when it makes the work better. Know when it doesn’t.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in an art direction field, at an ad agency and/or other internal brand team
• A master project manager and communicator
• An absolute savant in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant tools
• First and foremost: a storyteller that knows how visuals + copy can be greater than the sum of their parts
• (Probably) Creatively repressed when it comes to the use of comedy in your current role

Preferred

• Make us laugh
• Get the Shinesty brand
• Can explain why your approach to art direction will make Shinesty better
• Want to build something original—even if that means failing along the way
• Have a tenacious attitude for entertaining and know when to champion an idea all the way to launch

Benefits

• Denver/Boulder, CO (Relocation required) - Relocation budget available.
• Mixed WFH. 3 days in office (Boulder/Denver), 2 days work from wherever.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Dog-friendly office
• Flexible PTO, no need to accrue time, take as much as you would like
• Flexible working hours, just get your stuff done and generate results
• All the tools and resources you need to be successful in this role