Creative Art Director

Aydınlı Grup; Sarıyer; Sur place; TRY 850 000 - 1 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aydınlı Grup, master license holder for Pierre Cardin, Cacharel, and U.S. Polo Assn., seeks a Creative Art Director to lead the creative vision and visual identity for its brands.

You will manage agencies, studios, and a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-impact, omnichannel campaigns that elevate the brand. You will guide production across shoots, films, and AI-enabled content while maintaining global guidelines and premium aesthetics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, Advertising, or a related field.
• 15+ years in Creative Direction or similar leadership roles.
• Experience with fashion, luxury, retail, cosmetics, or premium brands.
• Experience managing agencies and large campaigns.
• Advanced knowledge of branding, visual storytelling, and omnichannel execution.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and modern production workflows.
• Experience with AI-powered content tools preferred.
• Strong leadership, planning, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsabilités

• Lead the creative vision and visual identity across brands and campaigns.
• Interpret briefs and translate them into impactful concepts, platforms, and art direction.
• Manage all creative partners including agencies, photographers, directors, stylists, and AI studios.
• Oversee integrated campaigns, key visuals, launches, brand films, lookbooks, and seasonal content.
• Lead the Creative Studio with resource planning, workload prioritization, and team management.
• Develop multidisciplinary teams including designers, motion designers, retouchers, and AI creators.
• Ensure assets adapt seamlessly across retail, digital, CRM, social, e-comm, events, and OOH.
• Oversee daily production of social content, motion graphics, and AI content.
• Direct shoots, fashion editorials, photography, video, and AI-driven content production.
• Maintain typography, color, composition, and premium aesthetics across brands.
• Evolve global creative guidelines for consistent brand expression.
• Collaborate with Performance Marketing to craft high-performing digital creatives.

Connaissances

Creative leadership

Brand strategy

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

English proficiency

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or related field

Outils

Adobe Creative Suite

AI content tools

Description du poste

CREATIVE ART DIRECTOR

As the master license holder of the globally renowned Pierre Cardin, Cacharel, and U.S. Polo Assn. brands, Aydınlı Group is one of the largest ready-to-wear fashion retailers in Türkiye and the surrounding region. With more than 5,000 employees and an extensive manufacturing and retail network spanning three continents, we continue to shape the future of the fashion industry.

Would you like to become part of our Brand & Communications team? At Aydınlı Group, we are committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences through innovation, sustainability, world‑class business practices, and the strength of Turkish design and manufacturing.

Job Description

• Lead the creative vision and visual identity of the brands in line with business and brand strategies.
• Interpret creative briefs and transform them into impactful creative concepts, campaign platforms, and art direction.
• Manage all creative partners, including creative agencies, production companies, photographers, directors, stylists, motion studios, AI production partners, and freelance creatives.
• Lead the creative development of integrated campaigns, hero key visuals, launch campaigns, brand films, lookbooks, and seasonal brand communications.
• Oversee the Creative Studio, ensuring effective resource planning, workload prioritization, and team management.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary creative teams including Graphic Designers, Motion Designers, AI Content Creators, Retouchers, and other creative specialists.
• Ensure the seamless adaptation of campaign assets across retail, digital, CRM, social media, e-commerce, marketplaces, outdoor advertising, events, visual merchandising, and other communication channels.
• Oversee the creative production of daily social media content, motion graphics, short-form videos, seasonal campaigns, and AI-generated content.
• Direct all content production processes, including campaign shoots, fashion shoots, editorial productions, product photography, video productions, and AI-powered creative content.
• Establish and maintain the highest standards of typography, color, composition, visual storytelling, premium aesthetics, and brand consistency.
• Develop, own, and continuously evolve global creative guidelines, ensuring consistent brand expression and visual excellence across all brands, markets, and communication channels.
• Partner closely with Performance Marketing teams to develop high-performing creative assets for digital acquisition channels, while monitoring creative effectiveness through key traffic and performance KPIs to drive continuous optimization.
• Manage Creative Studio capacity and optimize creative resources to maximize efficiency.
• Plan and manage creative, production, photography, agency, and content production budgets.
• Stay ahead of emerging creative trends, technologies, and AI-driven content solutions to continuously elevate the brand experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, Advertising, or a related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in Creative Direction, Art Direction, or Creative Leadership roles, with a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary creative teams and large-scale creative organizations.
• Proven experience within fashion, luxury, retail, cosmetics, or premium consumer brands.
• Extensive experience managing creative agencies and leading integrated creative projects.
• Strong background in large-scale campaign development, photo shoots, video production, and brand communications.
• Deep understanding of branding, visual communication, social media, digital marketing, and omnichannel creative execution.
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and contemporary creative production workflows.
• Experience with AI-powered creative tools and emerging content technologies is highly preferred.
• Exceptional creative vision with a strong eye for aesthetics, detail, and visual storytelling.
• Proven leadership, project management, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
• Professional proficiency in English is preferred.