Art Director | 5 - 7 Yrs | Branding Domain | Agency Background

Mellow Designs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Morning tea, lunch, and snacks

Interactive team sessions

Flexible work from home

Alternate Thursday team building activities

Job summary

ESP Engineered is seeking a talented Senior Art Director with 5-7 years of experience in the advertising and branding domain. This full-time hybrid role involves leading a design team, developing branding strategies, and ensuring quality execution of projects. Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The job offers a vibrant work culture with perks like health insurance and flexible work-from-home days. Candidates without a compelling portfolio will not be shortlisted.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Ability to lead and guide a design team.
• Strong understanding of branding and visual identity processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a design team and manage execution of branding projects.
• Develop branding collateral and visual languages.
• Coordinate with external vendors and manage project timelines.

Skills

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

Tools

Figma

After Effects

Premier Pro

Job description

Senior Art Director | 5 - 7 Yrs | Advertising + Branding Domain | Agency Background

Apply only if you have a portfolio link which has Branding & Design Projects, with design aesthetics similar to or better than our website projects at www.mellowdesigns.co; we will shortlist you only if you have this.

Job Summary

• Experience: 7+ years in digital and print design
• Qualification: We need smart brains not certified ones. We look for creative people, not degrees.
• Timings: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM | Monday - Friday
• Job Type: Full-time hybrid model (4 days in office, one day from home)
• First 6 months would be the probation period

Responsibilities

• A skilled Art Director based in Bangalore (or ready to move).
• Has a good understanding of the end-to-end branding and visual identity processes and knows the exact amount of time and effort needed in each step.
• Has a good understanding of graphic design principles and typography.
• Has experience in leading a team of designers and guiding the design process.
• The projects involve the following steps in branding: Competitor research, visual strategy, building identity, making presentations, conceptualizing brand language across digital, print, motion, ads, and all customer touchpoints.
• Capable of designing and guiding and an expert in all Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
• If you’re good at photography and video shoots, it's a plus.
• Developing a visual language from scratch for branding projects, including forming a questionnaire to execute each bit of the brand with the team until making the brand guidelines.
• Setting up a brand language and designing its collateral.
• Partner closely with the Creative Director to come up with creative concepts for advertising campaigns.
• Design for all customer journey touchpoints, from in-store to website to ads.
• Bringing in new experiences for brands and establishing a high recall value.
• Coordinate with external vendors/resources and manage execution of design projects.
• Monitor and direct photography projects.
• Lead a team and coordinate with them to execute ideas discussed with the creative director or your senior.
• Assign tasks to your team on an everyday basis on the “ClickUp App” and ensure they're on track with timelines.
• Maintain quality of work by implementing the right systems.
• Coordinate with an account manager who communicates with the client to arrange brief calls. You take briefs directly or assign team to avoid loss of quality.
• Visit the client's place to plan execution of designs.
• Keep up to date with the latest trends; source custom & quality design references for the client.

Qualifications & Skills

Must

• Adobe Photoshop (pro level)
• Illustrator

Add-on

• Figma
• After Effects
• Premier Pro

What You Will Learn

• Work with international brands and learn workflow expectations.
• Execute ideas quickly and master shortcuts.
• Learn the complete process of branding execution at a technical level.
• Develop leadership skills.

Perks of working at Mellow

• Morning tea, lunch, and snacks will be on us.
• Interactive and brainstorming sessions with the entire team.
• Occasional foosball matches with teammates.
• Weekends are for yourself; no work on weekends or deliverables expected.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Alternate Thursday team building activities.
• Up to six work-from-home days per month.

Company Overview

Mellow Designs is a branding and digital marketing studio. We handcraft and grow brands with our services, which include designing logos from scratch to building a complete visual identity, website design, advertising, social media marketing, media planning, photography, videos. We also provide consultation and strategic business development solutions.

We're a small yet mighty team of designers, artists, and writers. Rohit Dhongade, founder and creative director, founded Mellow Designs in 2018 as he observed the dire need for creative, high‑quality design. We still believe in the same values. We focus on quality over quantity. This has led us to work with some of the renowned brands in a very short span of time. We join hands with people who work for creative satisfaction and not just for money.

Our clients include 3M, Helios, Titan, Bosch, Gold’s Gym, Puravankara, Provident, Nandu’s, Zoomcar, Spar, Indira’s, Quess, Hairline, Indira’s Food, Embassy, Himalaya, Dotpe.

Our team will reach out if shortlisted.