Associate Art Director

MRM; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Precision Marketing is seeking an Associate Art Director with a sharp design eye and the ambition to make award-winning work. You'll partner with copywriters to turn briefs into ideas and translate them into finished, on-brand creative across email, CRM, direct mail, digital, social, and OLV.

The role requires 1–3 years of design or art direction experience, a strong portfolio, fluency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of design or art direction experience.
• Portfolio showing strong ideas and craft.
• Fluency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Bonus points for hands-on experience with generative AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and art-direct across channels: email, CRM, direct mail, digital, social, and OLV.
• Apply fundamentals of composition, typography, and color.
• Concept and develop ideas with copywriters from brainstorm to final execution.
• Collaborate with account, strategy, social, and UX teams to bring ideas to life.
• Support new business pitches and handle feedback quickly.
• Shadow senior creatives in client presentations and reviews.
• Manage workload and deadlines with strict quality control.

Skills

Design

Art direction

Portfolio development

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

Agency: Omnicom Precision Marketing Job Function: Creative Job Subfunction: Art Direction Job Description: MRM is part of the Omnicom Precision Marketing activation practice. This practice integrates CRM platform expertise, journey management, and first-party data capabilities with creative excellence and performance capabilities, enabling Omnicom to deliver intelligent activation across the full funnel with data-driven decisioning at scale to help clients move faster and deliver more connected customer experiences. MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency dedicated to building enduring brand relationships. MRM's specialized capabilities drive relationship lifetime value and span CRM, Customer Experience, and Commerce with data and martech at the core. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way to enable greater collaboration, creativity, and true speed to market. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com. MRM is looking for an Associate Art Director with a sharp design eye and the ambition to make award-winning work. You'll partner with copywriters to turn briefs into ideas, and turn those ideas into finished, on-brand creative across digital, print, direct mail, CRM, social, and OLV. This is a role for someone who has the fundamentals down and wants to grow. You'll own your work, take direction well, and learn how work gets sold by watching senior creatives present it. We want a team player who understands we all win together.

What you'll do:

• Design and art-direct across channels: email and CRM, direct mail, digital display, social, print, OLV, and occasionally broadcast
• Apply strong fundamentals in composition, typography, and color, including when refining and finishing AI-assisted visuals to agency standards
• Concept and develop ideas with copywriters, from first brainstorm through final execution
• Collaborate with account, strategy, social, and UX teams to bring ideas to life
• Support new business pitches
• Take feedback constructively and turn it around quickly
• Shadow senior creatives in client presentations and internal reviews
• Manage your own workload and deadlines with tight quality control on everything you send out

What we're looking for:

• 1–3 years of design or art direction experience, or a standout portfolio if you're just out of school
• A portfolio that shows strong ideas and strong craft (personal projects and school work welcome)
• Fluency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
• A point of view on typography, photography, and color
• Interest in both online and offline media, and in learning the specifics of CRM and direct
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Bonus points for hands‑on experience with generative AI tools as part of a design workflow.

The salary range for this position is $66,300. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications. $66,300

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.

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