Advertising Art Director

Lactalis USA; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off from day one

Education Reimbursement

Retirement plans

Total Rewards Program

Job summary

Lactalis USA, based in Minnetonka, MN, is seeking an Advertising Art Director to lead visual storytelling for our yogurt brands. You will help craft integrated campaigns across broadcast, digital, and experiential, reporting to the Creative Director within a growing in-house team.

You bring 7+ years of high‑profile advertising, an award‑winning portfolio, and the ability to manage freelancers and big productions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience crafting high-profile integrated advertising.
• A proven track record within world-class, creative-first advertising agencies.
• Must possess a stunning portfolio demonstrating big-budget, national brand work (Broadcast, Earned, Experiential, Digital).

Responsibilities

• Create concepts and design brand experiences across channels including broadcast, PR, digital, and social.
• Concept and pitch integrated campaigns that elevate our brands on a national scale.
• Ensure core brand creative and messaging are integrated into all work.
• Collaborate with copywriting to merge communication and design effectively.
• Lead visual direction for major national broadcast spots and high-budget productions.
• Manage freelancers and external partners to maintain brand quality.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand storytelling

Award-winning portfolio

Team management

Big-budget campaigns

Education

Portfolio school or comms program

Tools

Job description

Description

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

Description

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family‑owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award‑winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go‑Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values — Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis US Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Advertising Art Director based in Minnetonka, MN.

We at The FERM are looking for an award‑winning advertising heavyweight to treat our yogurt brands as their ultimate creative playground. If you are tired of agency pitch‑grinds and want to actually see your biggest, boldest ideas produced on a national stage, this is your next move. Reporting to the Creative Director, this role will work in a growing, talented, award‑winning in‑house creative squad to build integrated world‑class brand experiences that engage and inspire. The Advertising Art Director will work on a growing, talented, in‑house creative team and build integrated world‑class brand experiences that engage and inspire. This role will serve as the lead steward of US Yogurt’s mission and brand voice, driving compelling messaging and storytelling across brands. Partnering closely with the Advertising Copywriter and broader creative team, the Advertising Art Director will bring campaigns to life through innovative visual storytelling across channels. The Advertising Art Director will report to the Creative Director.

What We’re Looking For

A Top Agency Pedigree: You’ve cut your teeth at top‑tier shops and have the case studies to prove it.

An Award‑Winning Mindset: Your work has caught the eye of award juries (Cannes, One Show, Clios, Pencils) or has actively driven national cultural conversation.

Big Brand Fluent: You know how to command a big budget, direct massive productions, and steer a brand that millions of people interact with daily.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key Responsibilities For This Position Include

• Create concepts and design brand experiences across all channels of marketing communications, including broadcast, PR and earned, experiential, digital, and owned and paid social.
• Concept and pitch culture‑defining, headline‑grabbing integrated campaigns that elevate our brands creative cache nationally.
• Ensure integration of core brand creative, campaign messaging, and sound strategic point of view into the work.
• Partner with copywriting and act as a strong command of the intersection between thoughtful communication and design.
• Lead the visual direction for major national broadcast spots, high‑budget lifestyle photography, and experiential activations, collaborating with top‑tier directors, production houses, and crews.
• Manage freelancers and external partners to ensure all outside work is consistent with the brand at the same quality and caliber.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified Applicants Will Contribute The Following

Education

• Degree from nationally recognized portfolio school or equivalent university comms program (VCU Brand Center, Miami Ad School, SCAD, Stan Richards School UT, SI Newhouse School Syracuse etc).

Experience

• 7+ years of experience crafting high‑profile integrated advertising.
• A proven track record within world‑class, creative‑first advertising agencies.
• Must possess a stunning, award‑winning portfolio demonstrating big‑budget, national consumer brand work (Broadcast, Earned, Experiential, Digital).

Certifications and specific knowledge

• Ability to craft unique ideas from consumer insights.
• Impeccable sense of design, attention to detail, and consummate consumer of culture.
• Practice and application of effectiveness tools and metrics (pre-post creative testing, brand lift studies, MMM’s)
• Paid social experience across META, Pinterest and Reddit
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines within specified time constraints.
• Ability to operate in a team environment as well as independently.

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally‑recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.