Freelance Art Director

vaynermedia; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

VaynerMedia Philippines is seeking a Senior Arts leader to shape creative direction across campaigns for local and regional clients. You will guide art direction, collaborate with copy, edit output, and mentor junior creatives to deliver high-impact visuals.

This role requires 7+ years in creative media or advertising, strong leadership, and the ability to inspire ideation across multi-geography teams in a fast-paced, start-up–like agency environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field in the Philippine market.

Responsibilities

• Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guide the team across each.
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients.
• 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.
• Support CDs, ACDs and win new business pitches.
• Help review and optimize the juniors output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries.
• 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.

Skills

Art Direction

Leadership

Creativity

Communication

Strategy

Mentoring

Job description

ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX ( https://vaynerx.com ) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

The PITCH

We're lucky that everyone within our walls thinks creatively, shares a passion for building communities, and understands the world of both big campaigns and social micro-content.

Our Senior Arts here serve a slightly different (and more senior) role than more traditional "digital creative types," but thankfully we'll never use the term "digital ninja".

Are you based in the Philippines? Geeking the creative world in the Philippine market for seven plus years now? Oh well, we could be meant to be --

• Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guides the team across each.
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients.
• 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.
• Support CDs, ACDs and win new business pitches.
• Help review and optimize the juniors output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
• 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 VaynerMedia POV
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.

Your Experience

7+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field in the Philippine market.

Competencies

• 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 VaynerX 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.

Core skills

Strong in ideation and art direction (not just executional design work). Ability to create compelling visual narratives across platforms. Motion design skills are a strong plus.

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think "lab" and not "agency". We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We're willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It's fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can't wait to meet you.