Creative Director, Art Direction

New York City, NY (On-site)

$135K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the visual concept and art direction for major campaigns from brief to production, shaping the aesthetic language and craft decisions across media while collaborating across strategy, digital, design, and production to ensure creative integrity.

  • Lead cross-media concepting and production ownership
  • Collaborate with strategy, design, and production teams to ensure cohesive work
  • Leverage AI as a creative accelerator to test and push ideas

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the work. Own the visual concept and art direction on major campaigns from brief through production. Establish the aesthetic language, make the craft decisions, and push the work past the expected — across media and throughout the funnel.
  • Create across media. Performance-driven creativity is our rocket fuel for solving problems. You have perspective on how to earn attention and spark engagement at the outset of every project.
  • Partner and elevate. Here, we are each other's people. You'll collaborate with strategy, digital, visual designers, verbalist, client services, studio artists, and production to ensure creative integrity across every handoff and every touchpoint is a seamless exchange.
  • Move with purpose. You're nimble by nature, and equally comfortable in a fast-turn social brief and multi-layered brand launch. You show up where needed and respect timelines without letting them flatten the work.
  • Use AI as a creative accelerator. Neither a crutch nor a novelty, we embrace AI tools as part of how you explore, visualize, and pressure-test ideas. We want someone who's already figured out how to make them serve the work, and who isn't afraid to push into new territory.
  • Contribute to new business. Help concept and pitch ideas that win.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of creative experience in advertising, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine conceptual range and strong, distinctive visual thinking across formats.
  • Exceptional creative taste, and a demonstrated passion and point of view for every facet of the work.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI creative tools (Gemini, MidJourney, Firefly, Runway, or equivalent).
  • Proven fluency in today's media landscape: how visual content behaves across platforms, how performance creative works, how channels can shape ideas.
  • Experience working in health and wellness, financial services and destination brands a plus.
  • The presence to present and represent the work, our group and our agency with conviction.
  • We are also hiring for CD, Copy, so we are open to interviewing teams.

Benefits

  • Ample paid time off to recharge and reset
  • 401K: traditional and Roth options, plus employer match
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental and life insurance premiums for employees
  • Optional vision, life, short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Paid maternity leave
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Monigle

Just like brands that are constantly evolving, we challenge the status quo every day.As the country’s largest independent brand consultancy, we’ve been at the forefront of redefining how brands are made and experienced since 1971.Our ever-growing capabilities mean that we are continually advancing how we help our clients to deliver powerful experiences, create purposeful cultures and tell compelling stories. The net result is hard-working brands that move people.

Founded in 1971
Denver, Colorado, USA
123 employees (40 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$135K/yr – $165K/yr

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$32.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.3%
Direct
52.3%
Referral
6.1%
Social
9%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~123
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Creative Director, Art Direction

Monigle · New York City, NY · On-site