Senior Art Director

air-recruitment; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative brand experience agency in Maidenhead is seeking a Senior Art Director to craft award-winning solutions for experiential clients. This dynamic role requires creativity, strong leadership, and collaboration skills, with a focus on delivering standout consumer experiences while managing a team and mentoring juniors.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years' experience in a similar role within an agency, ideally experiential.
• Fluent in key design tools (In-Design, Illustrator).
• Strong ability to blend commercial awareness and creative flair.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, lead on projects, and work closely with team seniors.
• Craft project experiences and narratives while collaborating with the design team.
• Support new business pitches and develop outstanding creative concepts.

Skills

Creativity

Collaboration

Commercial Awareness

Brand Awareness

Leadership

Tools

In-Design

Illustrator

Creative Suite

MS Office

Job description

Senior Art Director. Up to £60k. Maidenhead.

This agency are looking for a Creative Senior Art Director, with a passion for leading, creating, developing and delivering award winning solutions. Working as part of the Creative team, the role mixes creative flair, technical know-how and commercial awareness to create stand out consumer experiences in the digital and retail space.

This award-winning creative brand experience agency create physical and digital events that make fans for brands, wherever they are. This Senior Art Director will be supporting the team's Creative Directors in ideating, developing, designing, and delivering creative solutions predominantly for experiential clients

Key responsibilities of this Senior Art Director:

• Ability to ideate, lead on projects - working closely with team seniors, strategist, Creative Production Director as well as other departments, to achieve commercial and creative objectives.

• Ability to deep dive and craft a project, the experience, the narrative, the details that really make it special, also work with visualisers and design team to bring your ideas to life.

• Keeping internal departments and project leads updated with progress.

• Supporting new business pitches, producing outstanding creative concepts that help to inspire and procure new clients.

• Enriching agency’s capability of delivering creative solutions in the experiential world, OOH and at times in a retail environment.

The requirements of this Senior Art Director:

• A passion for experiential, with at least 5 years' experience, ideally in a similar role within live activation/experiential focussed agency, including retail experiential, possibly theatre design.

• Demonstrable understanding of integrated work, translating brands beyond their advertising campaign and product into different channels.

• Openness to learn, collaborate, inspire and innovate.

• Be fluent in In-Design, Illustrator and other Creative Suite programmes, as well as MS Office.

• Ability to blend commercial awareness with passion and creative flair. Instinctive brand awareness and demonstrated experience of pushing boundaries and evolving brands.

• Live within commutable distance of our Maidenhead office (expected to travel there 3 x a week).

If you’re this Senior Art Director, get in touch now quoting ILS235.