Junior - Mid Level Art Director

CL1 Carmichael Lynch, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Carmichael Lynch is seeking an Art Director to lead social-first creative for the Xfinity account. You’ll partner with senior teams on concepting and execution across online video, static, experiential, and influencer content.

We’re looking for a culture-obsessed designer with sharp taste, strong fundamentals, and the ability to translate ideas into scroll-stopping work across platforms. Collaboration and mentorship of junior designers are key to success.

Qualifications

• Junior to mid-level Art Director with strong design fundamentals.
• Experience creating social-first content across platforms.
• Ability to take feedback and land concepts with confidence.
• Proven ability to collaborate with strategists, copywriters, designers and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Concept Development: ideate with team to produce high-volume, on-brand content across platforms.
• Creative Content Execution: deliver social-first campaigns tying entertainment, culture, and trends.

Skills

Concept development

Social content

Design fundamentals

Client presentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Agency: Carmichael Lynch Job Function: Creative Job Subfunction: Art Direction Job Description: Overview: Carmichael Lynch is hiring an Art Director to work primarily on our Xfinity client account. Our junior/mid-level Art Directors bring energy and excitement to the department, taking big swings on big ideas, honing in on fundamentals, and are reliable teammates with a hunger to learn, break things, and explore. Because our next Art Director will be, in large part, dedicated to our Xfinity account (social AOR), we are seeking a culture-obsessed, entertainment fanatic who can work directly with more senior teams and directors on concepting and executing social media creative content across online video, static, experiential, and partner/influencer. The ideal candidate will have great taste/eye for design (and what really works on social), sharp conceptual skills, and deep pop culture knowledge to create scroll-stopping content across social platforms. We expect our next Art Director to have a solid working knowledge of the fundamentals of design and creative composition, needing only a few round of feedback to stick the landing on the work. If you are a junior - mid weight Art Director that’s ready to step into bigger responsibility, more complex briefs, and grow towards being the go-to for fantastic ideas, we're excited to meet you.

Craft Skills

• Consistently delivers boundary-pushing conceptual work across broadcast, social, OOH, digital, and experiential.
• Confidence in design and composition fundamentals.
• Art direction and design craft that requires only a few rounds of feedback.
• Formidable player on integrated campaign work, consistently having full concepts or builds that go to client and move forward.
• Is gaining or ready to gain production experience that they can take lead on the work output on set.

People Skills

• Gaining confidence and comfortability presenting and selling work to internal teams and clients.
• In high demand across projects- highly reliable, knows social and digital well, takes and applies feedback well, and executes with minimal hand-holding.
• Provides support and natural mentorship to summer interns.
• Understands cross-departmental collaboration and stewards strategic integrated creative.

Key Responsibilities

• Concept Development: Ideate both independently and in collaboration with social strategists, copywriters, designers, and production to create a high volume of on-brand and relevant content across platforms (Meta/Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, etc.).
• Creative Content Execution: Execute breakthrough social-first creative campaigns that seamlessly tie entertainment, culture, and social media trends.