Associate Creative Director, Art

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$135K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end creative delivery for large-scale campaigns, guiding concept to production while collaborating with strategy, account, and production teams, with a focus on integrated, social, and digital outcomes.

  • Lead end-to-end creative for integrated campaigns
  • Collaborate across strategy, account, and production to ensure cohesive execution

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead concept development and art direction for major integrated, 360 campaigns
  • Develop bold, strategically grounded ideas across campaigns, partnerships, activations, social, digital, and experiential
  • Bring a refined visual point of view and high level of craft to every stage of the creative process
  • Be hands-on in the work, from initial concepts and visual exploration through production and execution
  • Present creative work to clients with confidence, clearly articulating the rationale, vision, and opportunity behind the work
  • Partner closely with your creative counterpart, strategy, account, production, and cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive creative execution
  • Help develop creative for high-profile brand partnerships, including sports and cultural activations
  • Lead creative through production, including participating in and providing direction on shoots
  • Create work that translates effectively across campaign touchpoints, with a strong understanding of social and digital channels
  • Navigate complex client environments, approval processes, brand guidelines, and business constraints while continuing to push the work forward

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in advertising, digital, or full-service agencies, with a strong art direction background
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns for luxury, travel, financial services, sports, or other premium consumer brands
  • Strong conceptual thinker with a portfolio demonstrating distinctive ideas, visual excellence, and integrated campaign work
  • Demonstrated ability to take an idea from concept through production and execution
  • Hands-on art direction experience, including experience on set
  • Experience with social and digital creative, with an understanding of how ideas translate across platforms
  • Comfortable working within complex brand, business, or regulatory constraints while continuing to push creative ambition
  • Confident and polished client presentation skills, with the ability to navigate multiple stakeholders and levels of approval
  • Strong strategic instincts and ability to translate briefs into compelling visual narratives
  • Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely across disciplines

Preferred

  • Experience with partnerships, activations, experiential, or culturally relevant brand work is a plus
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Big Spaceship

We're a creative company built for exploration. And we've been doing it for 25 years. We explore new creative territory and new ways of working. Fluent in culture and powered by tech. We deliver integrated work and native storytelling at scale.

Founded in 2000
New York, New York, USA
169 employees (54 in marketing)

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$135K/yr – $170K/yr

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Associate Creative Director, Art

Big Spaceship · New York City, NY · Hybrid