Associate Art Director

Allied Global Marketing; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401k

Flexible PTO

10 company paid holidays

Job summary

Allied Global Marketing in Los Angeles is seeking an Associate Art Director who will hands-on design across integrated campaigns, paid media, social, CRM, OOH, print and video. You’ll personally carry campaigns from concept through polished static executions while guiding others as needed.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in design and art direction, strong craft, and experience across entertainment or consumer brands, with deep familiarity with paid media and multi-market work.

Qualifications

• Strong design craft with excellent typography, layout, image selection and campaign design skills.
• 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally in an agency or fast-moving consumer brand environment.
• Hands-on design experience demonstrating ability to take concepts through final static executions; not just oversight.
• Ability to move between larger campaign thinking and detailed day-to-day design execution.
• Experience across integrated campaigns, paid media, digital and social.
• Solid understanding of how creative performs in paid media, across placements, formats, audiences and objectives.
• Experience working with high volumes of creative with strict media specs, versions and production requirements.
• Entertainment, location-based entertainment, hospitality, retail or major consumer-brand background preferred.
• Experience working within established brand or entertainment IP guidelines and adapting across different visual worlds.
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma; InDesign a plus.
• Strong motion/video direction skills including concepting, storyboarding and pacing; hands-on editing a plus.
• Ability to provide clear visual direction and feedback to designers, production artists, freelancers, etc.
• Strong creative judgment to independently drive day-to-day design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and Art Direct Static Creative across paid social, digital, OOH, print, CRM and other channels with high visual craft.
• Develop Integrated Campaign Creative and carry ideas through executions across channels and markets.
• Own Day-to-Day Visual Direction and make strong design decisions independently.
• Create for Paid Media with hooks, layouts and variations aligned to media plan.
• Build files for print production and adapt concepts for print collateral and OOH.
• Direct Creative across media specs ensuring accurate translations across sizes and formats.
• Create for Entertainment and Experiences around titles, attractions and destinations.
• Work Across Markets and Brands while maintaining consistency with brand/IP guidelines.
• Build Flexible Creative Systems to support regular refreshes and high-volume versioning.
• Think Social-First when appropriate and align with campaign idea.
• Create and Art Direct Motion and Video with hands-on capability where possible.
• Collaborate with copy, strategy, media, account, CRM, video, motion and production teams.
• Guide Production and QA with designers, freelancers and production artists.

Skills

Strong design craft

5+ years exp

Hands-on design

Concept & execution

Integrated & paid media

Media literacy

Spec-driven production

Entertainment / locale-based / brand

Brand & IP experience

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Video & motion capability

Team direction

Creative judgment

Organization & judgment

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Job description

Associate Art Director, Los Angeles

Integrated Campaign Creative

Allied is looking for a Los Angeles-based Associate Art Director to join our creative team, with an immediate focus on a major multi-market location-based entertainment account and opportunities to support other entertainment, culture, hospitality and consumer work across the agency.

This is a hands‑on art direction and design role spanning integrated campaigns, paid media, social, CRM, OOH, print, video, motion and other marketing needs. The right person should be a strong designer who is comfortable developing larger campaign ideas and then personally carrying those ideas through static creative across channels, formats and markets, while also helping shape video and motion executions.

This person will take on meaningful day‑to‑day ownership of the visual creative, working within broader creative direction while independently making design decisions, developing executions and keeping the account moving. They should be comfortable art directing others when needed, but this is not a management‑only role. We expect them to be actively designing.

They should also understand creative from a paid media perspective, including how an idea needs to adapt by placement, audience and objective, and how to deliver accurately against a wide range of media specs and formats.

What You’ll Do

• Design and Art Direct Static Creative: Personally design campaign creative across paid social, digital, OOH, print, CRM and other channels while maintaining a high level of visual craft.
• Develop Integrated Campaign Creative: Help develop larger campaign ideas and visual directions, then carry those ideas through specific executions across channels and markets.
• Own Day‑to‑Day Visual Direction: Take established campaign and creative direction and independently carry it through ongoing creative development, making strong design decisions without requiring senior creative involvement at every step.
• Create for Paid Media: Develop new hooks, layouts, offers, CTAs and variations while understanding the role different placements play within the media plan.
• Build files for print production: Adapt concepts and looks for print media, including print collateral and out of home. Understanding of print rules/methods a plus.
• Direct Creative Across Media Specs: Ensure campaign ideas translate effectively across different sizes, aspect ratios, formats, platforms and technical requirements, with strong attention to detail.
• Create for Entertainment and Experiences: Build creative around entertainment titles, attractions, destinations, products and other specific reasons for audiences to engage.
• Work Across Markets and Brands: Adapt creative across multiple locations, audiences and established brand or entertainment IP guidelines while maintaining consistency across the broader campaign.
• Build Flexible Creative Systems: Develop campaign structures that can support regular creative refreshes, new offers, changing content and high‑volume versioning without requiring every execution to start from scratch.
• Think Social‑First When Appropriate: Develop creative that feels natural within social environments, using platform behaviors and content formats while staying connected to the broader campaign idea.
• Create and Art Direct Motion and Video: Develop concepts, storyboards and visual direction for motion and video creative, working hands‑on where your skill set allows and partnering with dedicated video and motion resources for more specialized editing, animation or production.
• Partner Across Disciplines: Work closely with copy, strategy, media, account, CRM, video, motion and production teams so the creative responds to the message, placement, audience and campaign objective.
• Guide Production and QA: Direct designers, production artists, freelancers and other creative specialists when needed while maintaining quality, consistency and accuracy across final deliverables.
• Step In When Needed: Lead internal creative reviews and confidently represent the visual direction in client or cross‑functional conversations when senior creative leadership is unavailable.

What You Bring

• Strong Design Craft: Excellent typography, layout, image selection, compositing and campaign design skills.
• Relevant Experience: 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally within an agency or fast‑moving consumer brand environment.
• Hands‑On Design Experience: A portfolio demonstrating that you can personally take creative from concept through polished final static executions, not simply oversee the work of other designers.
• Concept and Execution: Comfort moving between larger campaign thinking and detailed day‑to‑day design execution.
• Integrated and Paid Media Experience: Experience developing creative across integrated campaigns, paid media, digital and social.
• Media Literacy: A strong understanding of how creative works within paid media, including placements, formats, audience needs and campaign objectives.
• Spec‑Driven Production: Experience working across high volumes of creative with detailed media specs, versions and production requirements.
• Relevant Category Experience: Entertainment, location‑based entertainment, hospitality, retail or major consumer‑brand experience.
• Brand and IP Experience: Experience working within established brand or entertainment IP guidelines and adapting across different visual worlds.
• Design Tools: Advanced Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma skills. InDesign is a plus.
• Video and Motion Capability: Strong understanding of how ideas translate into motion and video, including concepting, storyboarding, pacing and visual direction. Hands‑on editing, animation or motion‑design skills are a strong plus, but the role will also work with dedicated video and motion resources.
• Team Direction: Experience providing clear visual direction and feedback to designers, production artists, freelancers or other creative specialists.
• Creative Judgment: Ability to independently make strong day‑to‑day art and design decisions, interpret feedback and recognize when something requires senior creative involvement.
• Organization and Judgment: Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage overlapping assignments, markets, versions and deadlines independently.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate is likely an Associate Art Director or highly experienced Senior Designer already operating at the next level.

They should first and foremost be a strong, hands‑on designer. They can help develop the larger campaign idea, but they are equally comfortable opening the files and doing the design themselves. Once the broader creative direction is established, they should be able to take ownership of the day‑to‑day visual development and carry that direction through a large volume of polished static creative.

They should understand how creative needs to function within a media plan, stay highly organized across placements, specs, markets and versions, and know when to make a decision themselves versus bringing senior creative leadership back into the conversation. They should also be comfortable shaping motion and video creative, contributing hands‑on when that matches their skill set and partnering with dedicated video and motion resources when it does not.

They do not need to be the primary client lead, but they should be comfortable representing the visual direction, leading an internal review or stepping into a client conversation when needed.

This role is less suited to someone whose experience is primarily brand identity, one‑off campaign design or creative management without significant hands‑on design responsibility.

Why Join Allied

Allied is a global agency focused on entertainment, culture and experience marketing. This role offers the opportunity to work deeply on a major multi‑market location‑based entertainment account while also contributing to other creative work across the agency.

Details

• Location: Los Angeles, hybrid
• Level: Associate Art Director
• Target Salary: $80,000
• Portfolio Required: Online portfolio or selected work samples required
• Preferred Background: Entertainment, location‑based entertainment, hospitality, retail or major consumer brands
• This position will be eligible to participate in the standard benefits offered to full‑time employees of Allied Global Marketing (medical, dental, vision, short‑term and long‑term disability and life insurance as well as 401k and Flexible PTO). We also offer 10 company paid holidays.

Allied Global Marketing is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.