Art Director

Company Description

Arc is the lead shopper and retail agency within Publicis Groupe. In an era of unprecedented disruption, where the customers you seek actively resist brands like never before, everything we do is in service of making your brand irresistible. We call it Irresistible Commerce. And it starts by employing insights and data to uncover what’s standing in the way of growth. Then we deploy irresistible creative solutions to build connected shopping experiences that are personal, valuable and delightful for your customers. The results simultaneously drive brand sales and love. Helping us become WARC’s #1 Specialty Retail Agency with groundbreaking work recognized by Adweek, ANA Reggie Awards and Effies.

Job Description

The expectation for this mid-level position is to demonstrate the ability to creative problem-solving and designing marketing communication materials for business assignments.

An Art Director develops and executes creative marketing ideas and materials to solve client business challenges.  Shows competency in developing ideas and executions for creative product. Has a good sense for design fundamentals and visual esthetics.  Collaborates with a copywriter and other agency disciplines to generate ideas and create concepts that are on strategy, on brand and achieve client objectives.

An Art Director should be curious, ambitious, open-minded, collaborative and showcase their creativity with both ideas and executions. They should be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of creative solutions for business problems while collaborating with others to learn and delvelop quality work that meets the needs of a project brief. An Art Director is also continuing to build their brand reputation within the agency.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities: Deliver on Creative Assignments

Creative Development

• • Partners with a copywriter, or other team members, to create solutions for assignments
  • Composes rough layouts and design options quickly
  • Develops well-crafted design solutions for specific medias that are on brand and on strategy
  • Consistently presents great design principles to deliver clear and compelling communication
  • Is resourceful and innovative with business creative processes such as usage rights for stock photography and fonts
  • Has an understanding of company development processes
  • Consistently domonstrates open-mindedness and resillience to feedback and direction
  • Interprets feedback and provides solutions that fit and exceed the expectation

Concepting & Ideation

• • Participates in creative brainstorms
  • Leans into knowledge on current trends, pop culture, and current and past design themes
  • Brings original ideas, builds on others and facilitates collaborative thinking with others
  • Shows an understanding of business problems, opportunities and challenges and how to address them
  • Understands business and thinks outside of the box for solutions
  • Is understanding what ideas are effective or not and why

Communication Skills

• Effectively shares knowledge and experience in communications.
• Brings maturity and focus when conveying information.
• Tailors the communication to the audience (e.g., level of detail and formality).
• Recognizes that being better informed leads to better results.
• Spends extra effort to make sure communications are productive with a positive and solutions-oriented approach.

Creativity

• Constructively questions current practices and processes.
• Thinks about problems from a variety of perspectives; expands on the thinking or solutions proposed by others.
• Demonstrates personal curiosity, digging for information below the surface.
• Tries new ways to get things done, while taking steps to reduce the risks.

Leadership

• Acts with courage and as a role model. 
• Makes and keeps meaningful promises and commitments.
• Encourages and values team members' input.
• Teaches and develops direct reports, as applicable.
• Acts without fear or favor and follows through on commitments.

Positive Perseverance

• Encourages others to stay positive and respectful.
• Views disruptions as challenges rather than threats.
• Adjusts personal coping mechanisms to deal with disruptions.

Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Proposes and implements workable solutions.
• Understands the big picture; anticipates potential roadblocks and plans for contingencies.
• Analyzes successes and failures to improve