Art Director — Lead Visual Storytelling for Brand Studio

Healing Strides Counseling; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Restricted stock

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

The New York Times Company is seeking an experienced Art Director to join our T Brand Studio. You will lead visual storytelling, oversee design for presentations, Webflow posts, and print ads, and mentor Designers while collaborating with external partners to deliver outstanding work.

You will guide teams, shape creative direction for high-profile clients, ensure typography and layout excellence, and uphold journalistic independence in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience in the art industry.
• 5+ years of experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma) and modern digital publishing platforms such as Webflow.
• An experienced creative portfolio demonstrating mastery of design principles — typography, grid systems, layout hierarchy, color theory, and art direction for both digital and print media.
• Experienced managing designers including delegating tasks, giving constructive feedback, and overseeing visual quality.
• Experience commissioning and directing external creative partners including photographers, illustrators, animators and external development teams
• Experience presenting visual strategies and creative direction to executive-level clients and company partners.
• Visual research skills, with a rich, active mental library of contemporary and historical art, design, photography, and interactive digital trends.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and oversee excellent design work on client and internal projects, with guidance from Design Directors, and Creative Directors.
• Translate conceptual and strategic ideas into impactful visual solutions.
• Contribute creative concepts to client and internal projects, brainstorming with other teams.
• Design iteratively with an easy command of typography, composition, messaging hierarchy, layout, and other fundamental principles of graphic design, and give pointed feedback to designers which directly improves their work.
• Research and oversee selection of visual reference that inspires (Design, Page Animation, Illustration, and Photography).
• Manage Designers, delegate work to resourced Designers and Senior Designers based on workload and experience.
• Contribute to the professional growth of direct reports through mentorship and feedback.
• Select, brief, and direct outside collaborators to create their best work.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission.

Skills

5+ years art industry

Adobe Creative Cloud

Webflow

Design leadership

External partnerships

Presenting to executives

Visual research

Front-end basics (HTML/CSS)

Luxury/editorial storytelling

Collaborative design

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Job description

The New York Times Company is seeking an experienced Art Director to join our T Brand Studio. You will lead visual storytelling, oversee design for presentations, Webflow posts, and print ads, and mentor Designers while collaborating with external partners to deliver outstanding work.

You will guide teams, shape creative direction for high-profile clients, ensure typography and layout excellence, and uphold journalistic independence in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.