Job Description:
**Chicago or New York location required, for 3 days per week onsite in our office**
Art Director, Creative Development
We are seeking an Art Director, Creative Development to join our team, working on one of our newest client wins. You will create a variety of deliverables for fully integrated campaigns including TV, social posts, online video, storyboards, and more. You will report to a Creative Director and be paired with a copywriter.
- You’ll develop creative solutions that live across all forms of media and reflect a firm understanding of the communications objective, client nuances and timing/budget parameters.
- You’ll collaborate with a partner on projects of any size, scope and style through to completion.
- You’ll concept and art direct against all deliverables, developing campaigns, comps, story boards and mockups across multiple projects, deliverables and clients simultaneously.
- You’ll contribute work to new business pitches.
- You’ll manage the daily progress of projects from start to finish.
- You’ll collaborate with Producers, Designers, Client Leadership, and Strategy Partners across the life span of the project.
- You understand and find excitement in diverse media outlets, evolving technologies, and current trends.
- You appreciate the importance of strategy and create compelling, creative solutions that are on brief.
Qualifications:
- 2 years minimum experience in creative advertising
- An online portfolio with conceptual integrated campaign examples
- Comfortable with production and post-production
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Bachelor’s in advertising, marketing, graphic design or related field; in lieu of degree, equivalent experience in a relevant field required
- We are seeking candidates in the Chicago or New York area, as 3 days per week in office time is required
Additional Information
The annual salary range for this position is $55,000 - $72,250. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
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