Art Director

Liaison Creative + Marketing; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

401k with company match

Paid vacation/sick and holidays

Disability insurance (short- & long‑‑)

Life insurance

Pet Insurance

Bright Wellness Program

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Liaison Creative + Marketing is seeking a Junior Creative Director/Art Director to join our award-winning internal studio supporting a global technology company. You’ll collaborate with copywriters and creative leads to turn ideas into polished campaigns for digital, social, web, and print while exploring AI-assisted approaches.

This onsite role requires a strong portfolio, 2–3 years of agency or in-house experience, and a design-focused degree.

Qualifications

• An online portfolio showing campaign and conceptual work is required for consideration.
• 2–3 years of relevant experience in an advertising agency or in-house creative agency environment.
• Experience developing creative for large national or global campaigns.
• Strong conceptual thinking paired with hands-on design skills.
• Experience concepting and art directing integrated campaign work.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative concepts and visual directions for integrated national and global marketing campaigns.
• Partner with copywriters and creative leads to turn strong ideas into engaging and memorable creative.
• Take ideas from initial concept through design, iteration, production, and final delivery.
• Create campaign work across social, digital display, web, print, and other marketing channels.
• Use AI-assisted creative tools to explore concepts, generate possibilities, accelerate iterations, and enhance your creative process.
• Maintain a high level of visual craft and brand consistency across campaign deliverables.
• Experiment with emerging creative tools and techniques to discover new ways of bringing ideas to life.
• Collaborate with the creative team to solve challenges and keep projects moving from concept to completion.

Skills

Conceptual thinking

Art direction

Communication

Collaboration

Curiosity about AI

Education

Bachelor’s or associate degree in design/advertising/art direction

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Generative AI tools

Job description

Junior Creative Director.

MUST HAVE A HYPERLINK TO YOUR PORTFOLIO ON YOUR RESUME

ONSITE 4 DAYS A WEEK NORTH AUSTIN/ROUND ROCK AREA

Liaison Creative + Marketing is hiring a Art Director to join our team supporting the award-winning internal creative studio of a global technology company. We’re looking for a design-driven, highly conceptual creative who is excited about how AI can enhance the creative process, not replace the creative magic behind a great idea. You’ll concept alongside copywriters and creative leads, experiment with new tools and approaches, and roll up your sleeves to turn ideas into polished campaign work across digital, social, web, and print. This is a great opportunity for someone with 2–3 years of agency or in-house agency experience who wants to create work for national and global audiences while continuing to grow their art direction skills. This position is onsite four days per week with flexible start and end times and includes full benefits. We can only consider candidates who currently reside in the greater Austin, Texas area.

What You’ll Do

• Develop creative concepts and visual directions for integrated national and global marketing campaigns.
• Partner with copywriters and creative leads to turn strong ideas into engaging and memorable creative.
• Take ideas from initial concept through design, iteration, production, and final delivery.
• Create campaign work across social, digital display, web, print, and other marketing channels.
• Use AI-assisted creative tools to explore concepts, generate possibilities, accelerate iterations, and enhance your creative process.
• Maintain a high level of visual craft and brand consistency across campaign deliverables.
• Experiment with emerging creative tools and techniques to discover new ways of bringing ideas to life.
• Collaborate with the creative team to solve challenges and keep projects moving from concept to completion.

What Will Make You a Strong Candidate

• An online portfolio showing campaign and conceptual work is required for consideration.
• 2–3 years of relevant experience in an advertising agency or in-house creative agency environment.
• Experience developing creative for large national or global campaigns.
• Strong conceptual thinking paired with hands‑on design skills.
• Experience concepting and art directing integrated campaign work.
• Curiosity about AI, emerging creative technology, and new ways of making great work.
• Bachelor’s or associate degree in design, advertising, art direction, or a related discipline.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to bring others along and influence without authority.
• Production chops and the hands‑on skills to help create what you visualize when needed.

Software & Technical Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Some experience with generative AI tools for creative concepting, exploration, and production.
• Familiarity with AI creative platforms and tools such as Google Gemini, Jasper, Claude, or Synthesia.
• Full employee benefits package includes 100% Liaison-paid medical and dental insurance
• Paid vacation/sick and holiday leave
• 401k program with company matching
• Liaison-paid Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid group term life insurance
• Optional supplemental insurance and life coverage
• Optional Pet Insurance
• Bright Wellness Program
• Those enrolled in our medical plan get free access to an Employee Assistance Program.