Art Director

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays + Well

Smart Working with up to 40% from home

Work from abroad up to 90 days a year

Job summary

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) is seeking an Art Director with bold ideas, strong visual instincts, and the craft to turn concepts into outstanding work. You’ll own briefs, collaborate across teams, and shape ideas from spark to execution.

You’ll push concepts across brand, campaign, content and customer communications, maintaining a clear point of view for the audience and brief. A hands-on, studio-ready creative with strong presentation skills will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Ideas are your starting point and you can develop them into a compelling creative response.
• You have strong art direction and design craft; your portfolio demonstrates conceptual thinking.
• You think across channels including social, CRM, digital, content and campaigns.
• You can flex between consumer and business audiences.
• You can own the work and take responsibility for a brief while knowing when collaboration will improve it.
• You can articulate and sell your thinking to clients, from informal conversations to polished presentations.
• You value creative partnership and actively seek collaboration with copywriters from the start.
• You push rather than settle and welcome feedback to improve the work.
• You know how to use Gen AI creatively and intelligently, while knowing when human craft should lead.

Responsibilities

• Take a brief from spark to execution across multiple channels.
• Find the idea, push it further and sell it in to stakeholders.
• Concept with a copywriter or craft layouts and decks.
• Define the visual expression of an idea and bring it to life with hands-on execution.
• Work with Art Directors, designers, copywriters and Creative Directors.
• Collaborate across brand, campaign, content and customer communications.

Skills

Art direction

Concept development

Cross-channel campaigns

Presentation skills

Collaboration with writers

Gen AI usage

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

We’re looking for an Art Director with big ideas, strong visual instincts and the craft to turn those ideas into brilliant work.

You’ll be a conceptual thinker and a hands-on creative, able to take a brief from the first spark of an idea through to execution across multiple channels. Your portfolio should demonstrate strong visual thinking, beautifully crafted work and you’ll have the ability to articulate the rationale behind it.

We’re an integrated creative team, so variety comes with the territory. One day you might be developing a brand platform, the next creating a social-first idea, shaping a customer campaign or finding a compelling way to bring a complex B2B proposition to life. We’ve also just won an exciting new client spanning B2B and B2C, creating a significant new creative opportunity for the team and for the person joining us.

You’ll work alongside Art Directors, designers, copywriters and Creative Directors, collaborating closely while confidently owning your own briefs. We want someone who can find the idea, push it further and sell it in, with a clear point of view on why it’s right for the audience, brand and brief.

And ideas are only as good as their execution. You’ll be just as comfortable concepting with a copywriter as crafting a layout, building a compelling deck, defining the visual expression of an idea or getting hands‑on to make the work brilliant.

Our creative teams help brands find and express what matters most to their customers. We work across brand, campaign, content and customer communications, combining creativity, craft, data and technology to make work that connects.

That means different audiences, different problems and genuinely varied creative challenges. With new client wins and an expanding creative remit, it’s an exciting time to join us and help shape what comes next.

Requirements

• Ideas are your starting point. You can take a brief, find a distinctive way into it and develop it into a compelling creative response.
• You have strong art direction and design craft. Your portfolio demonstrates conceptual thinking, not just beautiful execution.
• You think across channels. You see social, CRM, digital, content, design and campaign as different expressions of an idea, rather than separate creative worlds.
• You can flex between consumer and business audiences, finding creatively interesting ways to engage both.
• You can own the work. You’re comfortable taking responsibility for a brief while knowing when collaboration will make the idea stronger.
• You can articulate and sell your thinking, from an informal creative conversation to a polished client presentation.
• You value creative partnership. You actively seek out collaboration with copywriters from the beginning, recognising that the strongest ideas come from visual and verbal thinking working together.
• You push rather than settle. You’re comfortable giving and receiving feedback and want to make the work better, not simply get it finished.
• You know how to use Gen AI creatively and intelligently. You understand where it can accelerate ideation, development and execution, but equally where human imagination, judgement and craft need to lead.
• You’re highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Benefits

Perks at ITG — alongside a competitive salary, here's what you can look forward to:

• Time off that works for you — 25 days' holiday + bank holidays, a paid Wellbeing Day, flexible bank holidays to honour cultural or religious observances, and the option to buy or carry over up to 5 extra days.
• Flexibility & lifestyle — Smart Working with up to 40% from home, and after 12 months, the option to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year.
• Family & life milestones — Enhanced family friendly leave, 3 extra days for your wedding/honeymoon, and an Employee Assistance Programme whenever you need support.
• Financial perks — Pension scheme, Corporate Medical Cash Plan, electric car salary sacrifice scheme, and tax-efficient payroll giving to your favourite charities.
• Growth & recognition — Funding for professional qualifications, monthly Employee of the Month awards (£250 bonus), and referral bonuses of up to £1,500.
• Community & wellbeing — Regular Wellbeing Workshops, 30+ Wellbeing Champions, a paid Volunteer Day, and an online perks platform with discounts on top brands, days out, and gym memberships.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups available to employees and exist to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other.