Art Director: Lead Bold Brand Concepts & Campaigns

Content Creators; Toronto; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Room to grow into senior creative领导

Job summary

Clutch in Toronto is seeking an Art Director to lead concept development for campaigns and brand experiences. You’ll translate insights into strategically sound concepts and art-direct across campaigns, product, social, and retail.

This hands-on role requires fluency in design tools, a strong craft, and the ability to push bold ideas while aligning with the brand system. In-office presence at 60 Adelaide St is required, with room to grow into senior leadership as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a creative agency or in-house brand team, including 3+ years in an art direction role.
• Strong art direction and design craft.
• Experience leading shoots and directing photographers, videographers and freelancers on set, and reviewing and approving day-to-day creative within an established brand system.

Responsibilities

• Lead concept development and ideation with the Creative Director for campaigns, brand moments, and customer experiences, grounding ideas in business context and audience insight.
• Own daily art direction: set the visual bar, direct photo, video, motion, and design production, and keep the work sharp from first sketch to final asset.
• Run creative reviews and approval within the design team and external partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that makes the work better and the team stronger.
• Move fluidly between concept and hands-on execution across a range of design tools and mediums, building out designs across product, video, experiential and digital.
• Concept and service the marketing departments advertising needs, building tools that contribute towards our self service ‘creative engine’.
• Use data and creative learnings to sharpen future concepts and continuously improve the work.
• Increase the creative team's output whilst raising craft and originality.

Skills

Art Direction

Brand Design

Campaign Development

Creative Leadership

Brand System

Shoots & Production

Job description

Clutch in Toronto is seeking an Art Director to lead concept development for campaigns and brand experiences. You’ll translate insights into strategically sound concepts and art-direct across campaigns, product, social, and retail.

This hands-on role requires fluency in design tools, a strong craft, and the ability to push bold ideas while aligning with the brand system. In-office presence at 60 Adelaide St is required, with room to grow into senior leadership as the team scales.