Art Director

Company Description

Merkle is a global Customer Experience Design and Management Agency and serves as the digital consulting arm of Dentsu. At Merkle, we help clients elevate their customer relationships and transform their customer experiences through innovative combinations of technology, strategy and customer-centric storytelling and design. Our Experience Creative studios deliver Service and Product transformation, Connected Commerce experiences, Systems Design, Loyalty and Promotion services, as well as CRM, Digital Content and Marketing programs. At the heart of it all lies our belief in the power of technology and design to create immense value for brands, transform people’s lives and solve the world’s biggest problems. 

Come join the artists, writers, strategists, techies, musicians, engineers, motorcyclists, snow boarders, product owners and all-around fascinating and highly motivated people who make up our rapidly growing global creative community.

Job Description

We are looking for a digital Art Director with expertise in user interaction design, graphic design, motion design and a passion for helping clients craft and build experiences based on modern design systems. As an art director, you will be a hands-on designer and emerging leader working to define, design and implement every aspect of a digital experience. You will collaborate closely with experience strategists, experience designers, content writers, developers, data analysts, client partners and project managers to create stunning digital experiences that generates real customer value and drives measurable business results.

IN THIS POSITION YOU WILL

• Play an active role in new business pitches working alongside Studio Leadership
• Demonstrate hands-on leadership by taking responsibility for your work and team deliverables
• Design world-class design solutions for digital products, marketing and commerce websites and present those ideas to the clients
• Work closely with other designers, experience designers, experience strategists and client partners to deliver projects of exceptional quality from start to finish
• Advocate for customer-centric ways to create value and solve problems for client businesses
• When needed, carry out client-facing workshops and presentations, collaborate in discovery research and user testing, helping turn qualitative data into actionable insights and opportunities
• Define and create digital brand visual identity systems and atomic design pattern libraries
• Personally design and help mentor other designers in the creation of design concepts, visual design comps, clickable prototypes and more
• Understand our clients’ target audience and look for unique opportunities to reach them through a variety of channels
• Stay apprised of social trends and produce unique ideas and designs that produce engagement
• Think systematically about a client’s goals and develop holistic design solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of degree, equivalent experience in a relevant field required
• Fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office/Teams
• Emerging fluency with Generative AI design tools
• Experience (and/or eagerness) to work with distributed creative teams
• Eagerness to take on design challenges, collaborate and grow professionally.
• Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills

Additional Information

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $78,000 - $126,500. Salary is based on a range of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. Our incentive compensation plan is subject to change. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information about dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com  

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done to ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please cont