Senior Art Director

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the end to end creative for integrated campaigns and guide art direction across digital, social, experiential, and live events, partnering with writers, strategists, and producers to deliver production‑ready work.

  • Lead campaign development from concept through final execution with a strong visual strategy.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to ensure consistent creative excellence and effective client presentation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with copywriters to develop and execute integrated advertising campaigns across digital, social, experiential, and brand channels.
  • Contribute to campaign development from initial concept through final execution, bringing strong visual thinking and creative problem-solving to every stage of the process.
  • Design and art direct campaign assets across a variety of formats, including social media, presentations, digital experiences, live events, and video.
  • Present work internally and to clients with confidence, clearly articulating the creative rationale behind ideas and executions.
  • Collaborate with Creative Directors to refine concepts and ensure a consistently high standard of creative excellence.
  • Work closely with strategists, writers, designers, and producers to deliver thoughtful, compelling, and production-ready creative.
  • Direct photographers, illustrators, motion designers, and production partners to bring ideas to life.
  • Support campaign extensions and adaptations across channels while maintaining creative integrity and consistency.
  • Contribute to communications systems for, by, and about GDP across owned, social, and live-event platforms.
  • Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate ideation, generate reference materials, prototype quickly, and explore new creative possibilities while maintaining a high standard of craft.

Requirements

  • 4–8 years of experience in an advertising, branding, or marketing agency environment.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking and exceptional visual craft across multiple channels.
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns in partnership with copywriters.
  • Strong design fundamentals, including typography, composition, photography, and visual storytelling.
  • Experience presenting work to clients and participating in creative discussions with confidence and professionalism.
  • Highly collaborative, resourceful, and comfortable working in fast-paced, multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience translating complex or technical subject matter into ideas that are clear, compelling, and emotionally resonant.
  • Demonstrated fluency with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign). Experience with motion design tools such as After Effects is a plus.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI creative tools, including image generation platforms and AI-assisted workflows, is preferred.
  • An interest in technology, innovation, and B2B storytelling is a plus.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k Company Contribution
  • FSA/HSA
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Paid holidays + holiday week (Christmas–New Year closure)
  • Commuter benefits
  • Monthly utility reimbursement
  • Pet insurance
  • Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • Collaborative San Francisco office in easily accessible location
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Godfrey Dadich Partners

Godfrey Dadich Partners (GDP) brings together designers, journalists, strategists, engineers, and more to help brands communicate. We create narratives and documentary films, logos and identity systems, corporate strategies and campaigns. Plus a whole lot more.

Founded in 2017
San Francisco, California, USA
54 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
15.3%
Direct
25.1%
Referral
4.6%
Social
4.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~54

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