Senior Art Director

TMA; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

dotdotdash is seeking Senior Art Directors in Los Angeles to craft integrated campaigns across digital, experiential, and content platforms. You will lead concepts, guide studios, and translate brand language into compelling experiences with exceptional craft and strategic rigor.

Join a hands-on team that stays ahead of culture, embraces emerging tech and AI tools, and collaborates with designers, copywriters, and strategists to deliver client-ready work on time and on budget.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in creative industry with at least 3+ years as art director.
• Portfolio showing culturally relevant, visually impactful work.
• Strong direction across multiple formats: campaigns, experiential, digital.
• Communicates visual direction using storyboards, mood boards, color palettes.
• Experience with AI tools for ideation and workflow.
• Excellent presentation and client-facing skills.
• Familiarity with motion, 3D, and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of concepts and executions for integrated and non-traditional campaigns.
• Own projects from concept through execution, solving creative challenges and delivering client-ready work.
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, and strategists to bring ideas to life with craft.
• Translate brand strategy into engaging experiences across channels.
• Ensure creative excellence while adhering to briefs, brand standards, and product guidelines.
• Adapt across disciplines to develop thoughtful, innovative solutions.
• Help evolve an emerging brand with consistent creative expression.
• Stay current with culture, tech, and new creative tools to push work forward.
• Communicate project progress, anticipate challenges, and keep work on time and budget.
• Inspire teammates through curiosity and a maker mentality.

Skills

Creative leadership

Visual storytelling

Concepting

Presentation

Brand strategy

Cross-functional

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Job Description

Senior Art Directors at dotdotdash are hands-on makers, thinkers, and storytellers who craft compelling creative narratives and develop integrated campaigns across experiential, digital, content, and emerging media. They approach projects with an innovative mindset, extending a brand’s visual language into new formats, platforms and experiences. They care deeply about how something looks — and how it works and is experienced. They are on top of culture, curious about emerging technology and AI, and driven to create work that sparks wonder and engagement. They understand that incredible work is elevated with impeccable attention to detail, while keeping sight of the big picture.

Agency

TMA

Job Function

Creative

Job Subfunction

Art Direction

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of creative concepts and executions for integrated and non-traditional campaigns spanning digital, experiential, content, and innovation-driven projects.
• Own projects from concept through execution, proactively solving creative challenges and delivering strategically sound, client-ready work.
• Collaborate closely with designers, copywriters, and strategists to develop ideas and bring them to life with exceptional craft and fidelity.
• Translate brand strategy and visual language into engaging experiences that surprise, delight, and inspire audiences.
• Ensure creative excellence across all deliverables while adhering to the creative brief, brand standards, and product guidelines.
• Adapt across disciplines including art direction, design, digital, social, and experiential to develop thoughtful, innovative solutions.
• Help steward and evolve an emerging brand by shaping consistent creative expression across channels and platforms.
• Stay current with cultural trends, emerging technology, and new creative tools to continuously push the work forward.
• Communicate project progress clearly, anticipate challenges, and help keep work moving on time and on budget.
• Inspire teammates through curiosity, experimentation, and a strong maker mentality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of creative industry experience (or relevant equivalent), with at least 3+ years as an art director (or comparable level).
• A portfolio of culturally relevant and visually impactful work, and a record of successfully concepting and executing an array of professional and personal projects.
• Excellent direction: concepting, campaign, art direction, experiential, environmental, social, digital and content production.
• A strong aesthetic POV and the ability to communicate conceptual and visual direction using multiple formats (storyboards, mood boards, color, lighting, ,materials palettes, etc.).
• Strong visual storytelling ability - you can convey a cohesive narrative using a variety of visual means: sketches, comps, renderings, storyboards, animatics, user flow, etc.).
• You are a confident presenter who can comfortably lead an audience and communicate complex ideas in ways that are compelling and simple to understand (both virtually and in-person).
• You are skilled inleveragingAI tools and platforms to enhance creative ideation, streamline workflows, and elevate execution.
• Strongexpertisein design tools (Figma, Adobe Suite) and an understanding of motion, 3D, and emerging technologies.

$162,000-$162,000

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