JOB DESCRIPTION – ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR
The ideal candidate will have strong design sensibilities and exceptional storytelling abilities.
Purpose:
To be a part of the creative group responsible for the ideation and development of immersive experiences across websites, apps, video, rich media, OTT and social media.
The key expectations of the role:
- Conceive and implement concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and oversee them to completion to ensure client satisfaction and business growth
- Consistently deliver ‘IDEA’ based work over tactical campaigns
- Explore global initiatives and bring such global work into practice for pitches
- Ensure quality assurance on all creative deliverables
- Keeping to deadlines
- Establish a roadmap for on-going innovation and creative experimentation
- Collaborate closely with Content/Social/Video/Photo teams to bring visual concepts to life
- Collaborate with Content Producers to maintain the desired creative intent
Competencies required: Knowledge, skills, and attitude
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the digital communication/advertising landscape
- Knowledge of responsive web design across desktop, tablet, and mobile
- Expertise in Adobe creative products- Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects and Sketch
- Ability to plan animation and interactivity based designs.
- Knowledge of information architecture, usability, and UI Design along with an experience of web, connectedTV, and mobile standards best practices, design, and usability principles and constraints within those formats
Skills
- Strong visual design skills, with good knowledge of layout, typography, and storytelling, with a sensitivity to user-system interaction
- Conceptualization skills, ability to see the big picture
- Exceptional ability to ideate
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills, both written and verbal are critical to the success of the role
Attitude
- Results driven, decisive and a strong bias for action.
- Should demonstrate interpersonal skills when dealing with subordinates, peers, superiors and external stakeholders
- Inquisitive about the world around
- A Solutionist
- Commercial acumen
The Individual: (education and experience)
Essential
- Overall work experience of at least 6-7 years in the creative space
- Extensive experience in designing across multiple media platforms (social, web, and video) within a fast-paced environment
- Experience creating and maintaining a strict style guide and component-based design system
- Must have an inspiring portfolio of work
Desirable
- Exposure to working in international markets.
If you’re ready to learn, hustle, and grow with us, let’s talk – careers@thesaltinc.com