Art Director, Digital Tool Design & Development

TNF; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 73,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive plan

Sales incentives

Medical plan

Job summary

TNF’s Global Brand Studio is seeking an Art Director to shape digital tools that support global creative workflows. This Denver, CO onsite role partners with Creative, Production, and Technology teams to design scalable experiences, evolve UX and visual systems, and contribute hands-on generative AI concepts that align with brand standards.

You will translate broad creative vision into practical design solutions for digital tools used by creative teams worldwide, spanning UX, interaction design,

Qualifications

• Experience in art direction, digital design, or creative systems in a global brand or agency.
• Ability to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered design solutions.
• Collaboration across Creative, Production, and Technology teams to deliver digital tools.
• Hands-on use of generative AI for content creation and tool UX concepts.

Responsibilities

• Translate creative direction into design solutions for digital tools across global workflows.
• Convert creative needs into intuitive tool experiences that improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with Creative, Production, and Technology teams from concept through rollout.
• Contribute to UX, interaction design, and visual systems across platforms.
• Maintain brand standards in tools and asset outputs.
• Gather feedback from designers to refine usability and experience.
• Provide hands-on design support and share best practices during tool development.
• Contribute to workflow improvements for scalable creative processes.
• Support documentation, guidelines, and training materials for adoption.
• Use generative AI to concept, iterate, and produce on-brand imagery and UI concepts.
• Explore AI-enabled tools and opportunities to support creative development.

Skills

Art direction

Digital design

Creative systems

Global brand experience

Cross-functional collaboration

User-centered design

Generative AI

Prompt engineering

AI workflows

Visual storytelling

Tools

Magnific

Claude

Figma Weave

Midjourney

Adobe Firefly

Runway

Google Gemini

Veo

Krea

ChatGPT

Job description

TNF’s Global Brand Studio is seeking an Art Director to help shape digital tools that support global creative workflows. In this Denver, CO onsite role, you’ll partner with Creative, Production, and Technology teams to design scalable experiences, evolve UX and visual systems, and contribute hands-on generative AI concepts that align with brand and quality standards.

Role overview

You will translate the broader creative vision into practical design solutions for digital tools used by creative teams worldwide. The work spans user experience, interaction design, and visual systems across platforms, with a focus on improving efficiency while preserving storytelling and design quality. You’ll also help explore AI-enabled opportunities and identify practical ways to support creative development.

Key responsibilities

• Support the translation of creative direction into design solutions for digital tools serving global brand and creative workflows
• Convert creative needs into intuitive tool experiences that improve efficiency while supporting storytelling and design quality
• Collaborate with Creative, Production, and Technology teams from concept through rollout of digital tools
• Contribute to user experience, interaction design, and visual systems across digital platforms used by creative teams
• Maintain consistency and quality in how tools support brand standards, asset creation, and creative outputs
• Gather and organize feedback from designers and creatives to refine tool usability and experience
• Provide hands-on design support and share best practices with designers and cross-functional partners during tool development
• Contribute to workflow improvements that enable scalable and effective creative processes
• Support documentation, guidelines, and training materials to drive adoption and consistent use across global teams
• Use generative AI tools hands-on to concept, iterate, and produce on-brand imagery, visual explorations, and tool UI concepts
• Explore emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, and identify practical opportunities to support creative development

What you bring

• Experience in art direction, digital design, or creative systems in a global brand or agency environment
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to creative direction across digital experiences, tools, or platforms
• Strong understanding of design workflows and creative production, including how tools support the creative process
• Ability to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered design solutions
• Collaboration experience across Creative, Production, and Technology teams
• Clear communication skills to build alignment with stakeholders and cross-functional partners
• Hands-on approach combining visual design, user experience thinking, and problem-solving
• Interest in innovation, emerging technology, and human centered design principles for improving how creative work gets done
• Hands-on experience using generative AI for content creation, including proficiency with Magnific, Claude, and Figma Weave (formerly Weavy)
• Experience with generative AI applications such as Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Runway, Google Gemini and Veo, Krea, or ChatGPT
• Ability to write and refine prompts, and build node-based or multi-step workflows to generate, edit, upscale, and enhance imagery and visual assets
• Strong creative eye to curate and refine AI-generated assets to meet brand and quality standards
• Working knowledge of responsible AI use, including image rights, usage restrictions, and brand-safety considerations, and ability to follow company AI guidelines
• Ability to document and share AI workflows, prompts, and learnings with designers and cross-functional partners

Technologies

• Magnific
• Claude
• Figma Weave (formerly Weavy)
• Midjourney
• Adobe Firefly
• Runway
• Google Gemini
• Veo
• Krea
• ChatGPT

Salary and location

• Location: Denver, CO (onsite)
• Salary: USD 73,440 - 91,800 per year
• Minimum experience: 3 years

Benefits

• Additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential (details provided during recruiting/interview process)
• Medical plan and other benefits via www.MyVFbenefits.com (detailed information provided during hiring process)

Preferred, not required

• Experience designing or supporting digital tools, platforms, or design systems
• Familiarity with asset management systems or creative workflow tools
• Experience building repeatable generative AI workflows or templates that other designers can adopt
• Portfolio examples showing generative AI work alongside traditional design craft
• Experience supporting global teams or contributing to scalable creative systems