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Job summary
A leading creative agency is seeking a Through-The-Line Art Director with over 8 years of experience to lead conceptual projects and mentor junior staff. This role requires strong strategic thinking and a track record of success. Ideal candidates will have a solid understanding of South African culture and excellent art direction abilities. You will be managing multiple projects and collaborating with various disciplines to exceed client expectations.
Qualifications
- 8+ years experience in a creative role.
- Track record of leading conceptualization and execution.
- Experience with international gold awards.
Responsibilities
- Guide the creative team in delivering exceptional concepts.
- Manage projects and mentor team members.
- Participate in pitches and campaign planning.
Skills
Since we believe in creative work that disrupts, we are looking for a candidate who is going to embrace modern marketing principles and is a self-starter. This is an individual who is not afraid to challenge the norm and embodies our philosophy of divine discontent (Never stop chasing brilliance attitude).
A Through-The-Line Art Director must have 8+ years experience.
- Highly conceptual individual
- Demonstrate exceptional strategic thinking
- Track record of leading the conceptualization and execution of campaigns
- Demonstrate in-depth understanding of new and existing digital platforms
- Must show an understanding of various programmes (Editing, recording etc.)
- Must have at least 1 international golds and 1 local gold medals
- Must show examples of problem solving
- Demonstrate a working understanding of CRM and CVM principles
- Give an example of proactivity that led to better work, processes etc.
Heres what youll bedoing to lead Agency and Client growth
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
As a senior creative you will help lead our passionate, multi-talented studio, guiding more junior members to deliver, and encourage exceptional integrated concepts that exceed client briefs and expectations.
A Senior TTL Art Director is an important contact point in our agency, so they can expect to be craft-led, strategically driven, media agnostic, agile and consistently conceptual, with a desire to transform brands by creating exceptional, intuitive, and human-centred products and experiences.
The successful candidate will be tuned into all aspects of South African popular culture and the platforms and media it plays in, as well as have a strong point of view on what it takes to win in this space, with the experience to back it up. Immaculate art direction ability is paramount.
- Be part of the strategic process and interrogate the brief
- Scope, plan & manage the creative process on projects
- Manage & mentor the creative team
- Work with other disciplines (Strategists, Developers, Media, Accounts, etc) to ensure cohesive team integration, and alignment with broader business objectives
- Be a champion for innovative media solutions on every brief
- Play an active role in campaign planning
- Participate in pitches for new business
- Define the visual language of overall campaigns
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Generate ideas and sell them into clients and other members of the team
- Mockup creative ideas
- Consistently produce creative elements against a deliverables list
- Lead the craft of an idea
- Compile presentations for clients & new ways to present
- Attend client briefings & present to clients
- Attend film and photoshoots
- Grasp on media specs
- Source inspirational material and references of how to push creativity
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