Art Director, Brand

Thuma is looking for an Art Director who is as passionate about Design, Simplicity and creating emotionally resonant content. 
Reporting to and closely partnering with the Head of Brand, the Art Director is responsible for leading the creative team through Thuma’s conceptual development, shoot and post production phases creating industry leading campaigns and content across all consumer touch points and elevating the creative strategy. The right candidate has passion for film, photography, design, typography, and motion as they come together to create innovative, brand elevating campaigns that seamlessly solve marketing and brand objectives. The Art Director is able to elegantly solve brand problems in ways that align with brand values. Strong leadership, presentation, collaboration, and cross functional partnership skills are required to successfully strategize and execute in this role.
Thuma’s Headquarters is based in the historic Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco. This is a hybrid role, and while we don’t mandate any in-office time, candidates should be available to come into our SF office.
In recognition of the personal and professional benefits that team members gain from time spent together in person, we organize a range of events throughout each year designed to bring our entire team together!

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the concepting and execution for all new creative content needed to support all marketing channels including film, photography, 3-D, digital, social, OOH and print.
• Work closely with leadership to strategize and develop the visual direction for 360 marketing and seasonal/evergreen campaigns.
• Collaborate closely with our Head of Brand and Design Director to ensure projects meet brand guidelines across Copy, Marketing and Design.
• Provide art direction on set and for all post production.
• Lead the strategy of production planning to support our ongoing content creation needs.
• Collaborate closely with internal/external creative partners and cross functional teams to realize campaigns and ensure aligned solutions.
• Provide strategic and creative feedback and lead creative brainstorms and concepting.
• Participate in the development of content for social media and supply guidance for visual direction on social channels.
• Develop and evolve our visual guidelines for photography and execute campaign guidelines.
• Set clear roles, responsibilities and expectations on projects to ensure that the team’s output and marketing requirements are brand appropriate, timely and of the highest quality for internal/external reviews.
• Manage the creative approval process and effectively communicate visual direction decisions to internal/external teams and cross-functional partners.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of design, furniture and hospitality industries, competitors and trends, and consumer cultural shifts to aid in validating decisions.
• Manage, both directly and indirectly, more junior member of the brand creative team

This Might Describe You:

• A resourceful self-starter and a hands-on and detail-oriented creative with an exceptional eye for great content and design.
• An innovative and imaginative thinker — finding connections and mining stories through insightful thinking and creativity.
• Comfortable navigating through ambiguity and complex problems in pursuit of clarity, simplicity and concrete outcomes.
• Able to juggle multiple projects at once and appropriately prioritize and delegate while remaining accountable for the success of the team.
• Someone who naturally elicits and provides impactful feedback, thoughtfully communicating what the team is doing well and where the opportunities for improvement are.
• An excellent written and verbal communicator that is able to effectively distill large amounts of information and details and communicate it with simplicity to all levels of the organization.
• Able to brainstorm and develop creative concepts that combine branding and commerce and execute these creative ideas from start to finish.
• Thrive in an environment where you have to manage multiple priorities,meet tight project deadlines and work at a fast pace.
• Excited by the opportunity to lead a team.

What You'll Need:

• 7+ years experience in a creative art direction role or other relevant experience in-house or at an agency.
• 3+ years leading campaigns and people.
• A portfolio that shows clear command of concepting and execution of 360 degree campaigns across mediums. (Print, film, 3-D, digital, social, etc.)
• Experience in design-led lifestyle brands and DTC/e-commerce is highly preferred (Fashion or luxury experience is a plus).
• Experience leading film and photography productions and providing direction on set. 
• Experience leadi