Ttl Art Director

99 Cents; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

99 Cents is seeking a MW Art Director in Cape Town to join our Creative Team on a national retail client. You will carry visual and conceptual skills from brief to artwork, ensuring high-quality campaigns under pressure with tight deadlines.

The ideal candidate has advertising agency experience, a strong portfolio, and excels at communication, layout, and collaboration within a fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• Proven advertising agency experience.
• Strong layout and design skills.
• Ability to present concepts to clients and senior creatives.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualise and execute campaigns based on briefs.
• Present work imaginatively and confidently to clients and senior creatives.
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation.
• Maintain exceptionally high standards for execution and attention to detail.
• Collaborate and communicate well with the team and other departments.

Skills

Art Direction

Creative portfolio

Job description

Our Cape Town office is looking for a MW Art Director with a focus on retail advertising to join our Creative Team on one of our retail clients.

Role Summary:

We are looking for a passionate Art Director with Advertising agency experience, someone with a strong creative portfolio that showcases the skill set to capture promotional excitement and breakthrough designs for a national retail client. The successful applicant will be tasked to carry visual and conceptual skills from initial brief to final artwork.

Our ideal candidate must have a keen eye for little and big details, work extremely well under pressure with quick deadlines, high work volume and demanding pitches. We want someone who is resourceful, a self-starter and a conceptual thinker. If you are all of the above and then some, have great communication skills, exceptional lay-out skills; know a thing or two about Art Direction in an Agency environment and plays well with others – we want to see your portfolio

Job Scope includes but is not limited to:

• Working in a team under the leadership of a Group Head and Creative Director to conceptualise and execute campaigns based on both client and internal briefs.
• Present work imaginatively and confidently to clients and senior creatives.
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation.
• Maintain exceptionally high standards for execution and attention to detail.
• Collaborate and communicate well with the team and other departments.

Have an eternally positive disposition especially when the going gets rough