Overview
- As a senior creative you will work with our passionate, multi-talented studio delivering on exceptional, integrated concepts and designs to exceed client briefs and expectations.
- As a Senior Art Director, you can expect to be craft-led and platform neutral conceptual thinker, in particular having an understanding of all major social platforms. You should have a desire to transform companies by creating beautiful, intuitive, and human-centred products and experiences.
- You will be tuned into all aspects of South African popular culture and the platforms and media it plays in, as well as have a strong point of view on what it takes to win in this space.
Responsibilities
Duties include, but not limited to:
- Be a conceptual thinker
- Be up to date with platforms
- Manage your creative process on projects
- Work with other disciplines Strategists, Developers, Media, Accounts, etc.
- Be a champion for creative innovation on every project you touch
- Participate in pitches for new business
- Define or apply the aesthetic of overall campaigns
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Generate ideas and sell them into clients or other members of the team
- Mock up creative ideas
- Design across multiple channels
- Consistently produce creative elements against a deliverables list
- Participate in brainstorms & conceptualisation
- Lead the craft & design of your idea
- Compile presentations for clients and learn to present
- Attend client briefings & be prepared to present to clients
Qualifications
Operational KPI’S
- Tertiary qualification in Art Direction / Graphic Design
- Must have a minimum of 5-6 years’ experience.
- Conceptual and design skills
- Proficient in MS Office i.e. Word / PowerPoint etc.
- Knowledge of and experience in Adobe Creative Suite applications
- Good communication & presentation skills
- Good multi-tasking skills ability to work on more than one brief at any given time
- Great time management
- Ability to work under pressure & meet tight deadlines
- Adopt problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills with ability to provide rationales for creative choices made
- Adequate presentation skills
- Working knowledge of existing and emerging technologies & platforms
- A strong understanding of best practice interaction and visual design principles
- Able to work with team members
Working knowledge of these tools:
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- After Effects
- KeyNote / PowerPoint
- Figma
- Google Web Designer & DV360
- Facebook Creative Hub
BUSINESS KPI’s
- Demonstrate innovative ideas to the team to improve how we communicate our proposition
- Must be able to work on one sizable and two small size projects at any one time with oversight
- Have the ability to attend every review on a project with 3 new ideas
