Freelance Digital Art Director (Advertising)

Confidential Careers; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Confidential Careers is seeking a Freelance Art Director with a strong digital-first mindset. The role demands deep familiarity with agency production and the ability to lead creative solutions for diverse clients.

You will shape campaigns, guide teams, and ensure delivery of high-quality work across multiple projects. Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in creative media or advertising, plus a good grasp of motion design.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in the creative media or advertising field.
• Motion design is a big plus.
• Execution - prioritise and deliver with autonomy.
• Leadership - motivate others, drive impact and sustain company culture.
• Empathy - manage diverse personalities with understanding.
• Communication - interact, manage and inspire the team.
• Strategic thinking - forecast outcomes and use sound judgment.
• Adaptability - stay curious and resilient in a changing world.
• Experience working with multi-geography teams.
• Able to deliver excellence to clients as a self-starter.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute visually compelling campaigns aligned with client objectives.
• Inspires ideation for current and new clients.
• Understands social media platforms and communities.
• Stay updated with trends, platform updates, and best practices.
• Proven art direction skills with meticulous design fortitude.
• Collaborate with large creative groups and cross-functional disciplines.
• Deliver high-quality, actionable feedback.
• Develop and deliver creative solutions from content to campaigns.
• Provide concept guidance and approvals.
• Help develop company-wide creative processes and workshops.

Skills

3+ years experience

Motion design

Leadership

Empathy

Communication

Strategic thinking

Adaptability

Team collaboration

Self-starter

Stakeholder management

Creative leadership

Job description

We’re looking for a Freelance Art Director with strong digital-first experience who is very familiar with production in an agency environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute visually compelling campaigns that align with client objectives and target audience preferences
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients
• Understands social media platforms and the different communities across each platform
• Stay up-to-date with emerging design trends, social media platform updates, and industry best practices to ensure the agency is at the forefront of innovation
• Proven Art Direction skills coupled with meticulous design fortitude
• Capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency
• Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback
• Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team
• Provides excellent level concept guidance and approvals
• Assists in developing company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work
• Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique company POV
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field
• Big plus if you can also do motion design
• Execution - ability to prioritise and deliver effectively with autonomy.
• Leadership - ability to maintain self-awareness and self-motivation while creating an impact through sharing, learning, innovation and company culture sustainability.
• Empathy - ability to show compassion, manage diverse personalities while cultivating a sense of understanding.
• Communication - ability to effectively interact, manage and inspire those around us.
• Strategic Thinking - ability to forecast decision outcomes and conduct sound business judgment.
• Adaptability - ability to change, be curious and naturally resilient to this ever changing world.
• Worked with teams in complex, multi-geography, multi-cultural environments.
• Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
• Natural ability to develop and maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems