Art Director

Woolworths Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team discounts across Woolworths Group

Rewards program

Salary Sacrifice

Sonder support

Job summary

Woolworths Group is seeking a senior Art Director/Designer to lead the creative vision and visual direction across the brand. You will collaborate on innovative campaigns, direct photography and video shoots on-set, and design high-impact visuals across digital networks, social channels, motion graphics, and print assets.

With a Surry Hills base and hybrid working, you’ll ensure brand consistency, accessibility, and high-quality production.

Qualifications

• Lead the creative vision across the brand and campaigns.
• Direct photography and video shoots on-set to meet brand benchmarks.
• Design and execute visual directions across digital, social, motion, and print assets.
• Enforce brand and accessibility standards while guiding asset approval.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop, brainstorm, and pitch innovative campaign concepts translating business objectives into visual narratives.
• Direct shoots on-set ensuring peak appetite appeal.
• Design and execute visual directions across digital retail networks, social channels, motion graphics and print assets.
• Enforce WCAG standards while guiding retouchers on color grading and final asset approvals.

Skills

Creative direction

Brand standards

Campaign concepts

Shoot direction

Motion graphics

Accessibility WCAG

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

After Effects

Figma

Job description

• Lead the creative vision and visual direction across the brand
• Collaborate innovative concepts and high-quality creative campaigns
• Surry Hills location with Hybrid working

• Lead the creative vision and visual direction across the brand
• Collaborate innovative concepts and high-quality creative campaigns
• Surry Hills location with Hybrid working

We are Woolworths Group. 190,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you’ll do

• Co-develop, brainstorm, and pitch innovative campaign concepts that translate complex business objectives into cohesive visual narratives
• Direct photography and video shoots on-set to ensure final assets meet brand benchmarks and achieve peak appetite appeal
• Design and execute high-impact visual directions across digital retail networks, social channels, motion graphics, and print assets.
• Enforce brand and accessibility (WCAG) standards while guiding retouchers on markups, color grading, and final asset approval

What you’ll bring

• Minimum five years’ Art Director or Senior Designer level experience in a media, content agency or related industry
• Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-channel asset pipelines and proactively solving production or timing blockers.
• Proven experience in shoots and owning the shoot direction, with at least two years shooting in the food space.
• Deep technical knowledge of digital UI/UX layouts, motion graphics, and multi-ratio social media video formats.
• Desirable experience within an in-house corporate agency, matrixed retail environment, or fast-paced publishing setup, alongside relevant tertiary qualifications.

What You’ll Experience

• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc
• Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.