Senior Associate, Creative Art Director

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One Brand Creative seeks a Senior Associate, Creative Art Director to lead hands-on concepting, designing, and execution for talent marketing and experiential touchpoints. You’ll bridge strategy with flawless execution, maintaining brand integrity while delivering high-impact, omni-channel experiences.

You’ll work as an individual contributor with ownership of design projects end-to-end, staying ahead of design trends and collaborating with partners to elevate campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or military experience.
• At least 2 years of experience across multiple creative mediums.
• Agency or large in-house creative team experience (preferred).
• Experience working with a Fortune 100 brand (preferred).
• 5+ years of experience across multiple creative mediums (preferred).
• Creative portfolio that includes a range of in-market work (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and execute high-impact creative across digital, site, social, events, brand activations, and campaign toolkits.
• Bridge creative strategy with design execution by leveraging evidence, audience insights, and business goals to make strategic creative choices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for brand standards, championing the brand, advocating for good taste, and driving visual consistency across all work.
• Own design projects end-to-end from initial white-space ideas through final delivery for high-visibility campaigns with an appropriate degree of autonomy.
• Proactively identify opportunities, develop smart solutions, and bring fresh ideas that raise the creative bar and push mindsets.
• Stay ahead of modern design, digital, and consumer trends, letting them inform and elevate your work.
• Manage multiple deadlines simultaneously to deliver polished, high-quality, and error-free work on time.
• Collaborate closely with immediate team members and line of business partners, incorporating feedback and gaining clarity when needed.

Skills

Multi-channel design experience

Concepting & execution

Brand standards knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or military experience

Job description

Senior Associate, Creative Art Director

Capital One Brand Creative is looking for an experienced, high-performing Art Director with an elevated portfolio and exceptional taste to bring our brand to life. Supporting the Talent Brand creative team, this role will lead hands-on concepting, designing, and execution for integrated experiences across the candidate-to-associate journey. You'll use your omni-channel visual design skills to support a broad range of talent marketing, recruiting, and experiential touchpoints, bridging creative strategy with flawless execution. As an individual contributor, you operate with an ownership mindset, setting the benchmark for design standards while ensuring every touchpoint is optimized for engagement and brand integrity. If you are a champion of strategic ideas and a hands-on maker with outstanding creative chops, we'd love to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

• Concept, design, and execute high-impact creative across digital, site, social, events, brand activations, and campaign toolkits in support of key business objectives.


• Bridge creative strategy with design execution by leveraging evidence, audience insights, and business goals to make strategic creative choices that cut through the noise.


• Serve as a subject matter expert for brand standards, championing the brand, advocating for good taste, and driving visual consistency across all work.


• Own design projects end-to-end from initial white-space ideas through final delivery for high-visibility campaigns with an appropriate degree of autonomy.


• Proactively identify opportunities, develop smart solutions, and bring fresh ideas that raise the creative bar and push mindsets.


• Stay ahead of modern design, digital, and consumer trends, letting them naturally inform and elevate your work.


• Manage multiple deadlines simultaneously to deliver polished, high-quality, and error-free work on time, every time.


• Collaborate closely with immediate team members and line of business partners, thoughtfully incorporating feedback and asking the right questions to gain clarity when needed.

Who you are:

You want to be an evidence-based marketer. Your curiosity is endless. There's always something else to learn. You're flexible and not afraid of change—in fact you welcome the challenge. You share your point of view, but seek out what might be missing and listen. You have big ideas and know the best ones are driven by proof, persistence and patience. You're a storyteller. You simplify the complex and compel your audience to act. You know how to enjoy yourself. While fun isn't mandatory, it certainly seems to follow you. You care—about the work, your team and the customers you serve.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or military experience


• At least 2 years of experience working across multiple creative mediums

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an agency or large in-house creative team


• Experience working with a Fortune 100 brand


• 5+ years of experience working across multiple creative mediums


• Creative portfolio that includes a range of in-market work

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Salary

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.

• McLean, VA: $96,500 - $110,100 for Sr. Associate, Art Director


• Richmond, VA: $87,700 - $100,100 for Sr. Associate, Art Director


• New York, NY: $105,300 - $120,100 for Sr. Associate, Art Director

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(s) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.