Altra: Art Director

Position: Art Director

Hiring Manager: Associate Creative Director

Department: Creative

Location: Denver, CO

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Altra – Stay Out There.

Altra Running, a VF Company, is one of the fastest-growing running brands in the world. We bring our passion for moving naturally to inspire everyone to lace up, hit the open road or trail, and Stay Out There™. We are building an inclusive community inside and outside of our company, and we’re looking for passionate, disruptive, entrepreneurial brand builders to join us.

So, before we get to the job details, take a minute to learn a little more about us – our values and our culture. If you can see yourself working side-by-side with a team of people driven to discover more about ourselves and the world around us, Altra just may be the place for you.

To learn more about our values and our culture, visit Altra Careers or www.altrarunning.com.

Position: Art Director

What You Will Do:
 

The Altra Art Director is responsible for concepting, designing and producing brand and product level assets for integrated campaigns, retail programs, eCommerce, social and IRL event activation. You’ll work closely with our creative leadership team to help Altra break through and stand out, while developing your skills in a small, entrepreneurial team environment.

How you’ll know you’re the right fit:

You’re a hybrid creative—part conceptual, part designer—who’s all in on the brand, the work and the team. Whether collaborating or flying solo, you bring energy, curiosity, and the passion to make every project shine. You see every day as an opportunity to learn something new and don’t let setbacks get you down. You keep up with design, photography, social and digital/interactive trends on a regular basis and have a passion for (or genuine interest in) running, the outdoors, apparel and footwear.

How You Will Make a Difference:
 

• Provide creative thinking and design across all Altra needs; integrated campaigns, website assets, landing pages, emails, digital banners, social media, video, print ads and mailers, etc.
• Collaborate closely with the Senior Art Director, Associate Creative Directors, Copy Writers, Marketers and other Altra teams to develop, create and design campaigns as well as tactical executions.
• Demonstrate extreme attention to detail across all work.
• Assist eCommerce product photography shoots (studio shoot experience preferred).
• Meet with traffic manager/production manager/marketing as required to ensure timely, accurate completion of assigned projects.
• Always meet established deadlines.
• Perform occasional additional duties as deemed appropriate by the creative team leaders.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 2-4+ years' experience in an agency or in-house Art Direction or Graphic Design Role.

Requirements:

• Online portfolio must show strong conceptual and design skills.
• Experience and comfort working in a fast-paced creative team environment.
• Ability to manage workload, deadlines and schedule with some guidance and supervision.
• Proficient in Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat).
• Able to build, design and maintain presentations (Using Microsoft PPT)
• Ability and knowledge of digital best practices and responsive design.
• Attention to detail.
• Positive attitude and pride in the process of making and presenting great work.
• Willingness and ability to take direction from CD and ACD, listens to and applies constructive criticism to their own work as well as that of others.
• Proactively seeks out improvement, training and growth opportunities.

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of social platforms and ability to shoot/edit content.
• Abilities in other creative software such as Figma, Procreate, After Effects.
• Interest or skill in animation/motion graphics.

What do we offer you?

At Altra, we know you expect as much from us as we do from you. That is why we make a commitment to support and grow our