Senior Art Director, Creative Development - Temporary Worker

dentsu; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Safety and sick time

Remote flexibility

Job summary

Dentsu Creative in New York is hiring a Senior Art Director to shape look, tone and feel across on-strategy creative ideas for multiple clients. You will co-direct and drive concepts across channels in a fast-paced environment, balancing creativity with timelines and budgets.

The role emphasizes broad experience in brand marketing, retail, CRM, content, social, and highly regulated customer communications, with leadership across both production and strategic engagement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in the creative advertising industry.
• Experience leading high-volume, cross-channel creative production.

Responsibilities

• Concept and art direct across deliverables and campaigns.
• Develop campaigns, comps, storyboards, and mockups across multiple projects.

Skills

Art direction

Creative direction

Brand marketing

CRM

Multimedia storytelling

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Job Description:

• Temporary assignment starting ASAP through 12/18, with the potential to extend or convert to a permanent role; however, neither is guaranteed at this time.

• W2 only. Candidates must be authorized to work and reside in the United States.

• Preferred location: Fully remote, with a preference for candidates based in or near Boston, Hartford (CT), Rhode Island, or New York.

• Must be available to work during Eastern Time (ET) business hours.

• The ideal candidate will bring a broad mix of experience across integrated brand marketing, retail, CRM, content, social, commerce, retail media, and highly regulated customer communications. This role requires leadership across both high-volume creative production and strategic customer engagement initiatives.

• Customer wellness, healthcare, or health-adjacent industry experience is required.

Role Purpose

We serve our clients from offices around the world. Passionate about building brands in diverse categories, we handle accounts of all sizes, from local to global, crossing all communication channels. We’re currently hiring a Senior Art Director. This high conceptual thinker is responsible for generating, co-managing and co-directing the look, tone and feel of all on-strategy creative ideas across multiple mediums. This role is project by project so you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of clients.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide superior comping skills on multiple projects

• Develop Superior creative solutions that successfully live across all forms of media and reflect a firm understanding of the communications objective, client nuances and timing/budget parameters

• Be self-motivated, hardworking, well organized, and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables

• You will concept and art direct against all deliverables, developing campaigns, comps, story boards and mockups across multiple projects, deliverables and clients simultaneously

Person Specification

• 4+ years of experience in the creative advertising industry

Additional Information:

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

The hourly pay range for this position is $53.74 - $71.65.The hourly pay ratefor the successful candidateis based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factorspermittedby law.Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidaysin accordancewithdentsu policy,as well assafe and sick time. This position is not eligible for any other benefits or other compensation.

Location:

New York

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Temporary

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