Senior Art Director (Social)

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

Who we are VML brand design:

Within VML is the Brand Design studio, a group that provides brand strategy, brand naming and brand identity for VML clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to emerging startups. We're a group of some of the strongest designers in the United States, widely respected across the agency for our purposefulness, our craft and our skills. We strive to create a place where our designers can do their very best work and grow their careers.

Brand Design is an extremely collaborative group and we aim to empower you to become a vital collaborator quickly. That means not only working closely with fellow designer but also presenting your work to clients, championing others’ work, staying in close communication with your team, giving and receiving constructive criticism and helping us educate colleagues about how best to work with the studio. We do our best to ensure every designer gets the full range of client experiences, working on projects of all sizes and touching as many parts of the design process as possible. While some of our designers have enhanced skills in specific areas that might be called upon for certain projects, we want all studio designers to be generalists with a growth mindset to continually improve existing skills and gain new ones.

Who we are looking for:  

VML is seeking a concept-driven, tech-obsessed, socially savvy Senior Art Director with a design focus to shape and deliver organic social content for a high-profile tech client in our Portland office. 

As the Senior Art Director focused on social media, you will help shape the creative vision and deliver content for our client’s owned channels, bringing bold visual thinking, strong design sensibility, and a sharp eye for how culture shows up on pocket-sized screens.  

Equal parts idea-led and executional, you bring fresh visual perspectives, fluency in social-first formats and an instinct for what stops the scroll. You demonstrate solid content creation skills in your portfolio or personal feed with shooting, editing and design chops. 

In addition to partnering closely with a Senior Copywriter as a true creative duo, you’ll take direction from creative leads, articulate visual direction for editors and animators, collaborate with strategy and account and engage directly with clients to present work that’s on brand, on trend and on time.

What you’ll do:

• Concept and Create | Translate creative direction into compelling, social-first visual executions across formats and platforms.
• Craft | Adapt brand systems to deliver polished, production-ready design with strong attention to detail, consistency and platform best practices.
• Client facing | Regularly connect with clients to create a partnership that builds trust in our thought leadership and ideas. Present your creative work and articulate the bigger creative idea behind it.
• Collaborate | Work with creative leads, art directors, copywriters, strategists, motion designers and social managers to bring ideas to life.
• Cultivate | Stay ahead of platform shifts, trends and creative best practices in the social landscape.

What you’ll need:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a desig