Sr. Art Director

Company Description

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

Job Description

This Sr. Art Director will be part of a creative services in-house team and will assist in managing a small team of highly-skilled creative professionals while leading the design and creative direction efforts. The Senior Art Director should be adept at driving/growing relationships with key clientele across all levels of the organization in a fast-paced environment, ready and eager to tackle every project no matter how large or small the challenge. The creative team develops a variety of print and internal / external marketing collateral for the retail industry. All creative efforts are coordinated with the client to maintain the integrity of the approved designs and themes. The Sr. Art Director must be passionate about design, consumer trends and a forward-thinking individual looking for new and innovate ways to deliver ideas to our client.

Responsibilities

Work is typically performed under minimal daily supervision, receiving guidance from manager/supervisor about the work that needs to be completed.  Able to exercise high level of discretion and latitude in completing tasks.

• The Sr. Art Director will collaborate and work in tandem with all levels of the creative team and client to execute 3,000+ creative projects per year.
• Lead creative development for projects, including digital, print, environmental and experiential.
• Contribute original designs and concepts.
• Oversee and ensure brand consistency and quality across marketing production work.
• Ensure timely and accurate project deliverables.
• Mentor and direct a small team of creative professionals.
• Collaborate with creative groups across the department.
• Remain current with industry best practices and apply them to the development of creative output.
• Works on high-profile/high-priority client projects that are complex, non-routine and vary greatly in scope.
• Follows projects throughout all stages of print production and/or online deployment.
• Provides production support to produce technically correct, print ready mechanicals for release.
• Interacts regularly with client, creative partners and other team members as needed for completion of assigned projects.
• Interprets marketing ideas and turns them into visual reality at a world-class level.
• Works directly with creative director to help create top-line campaigns which push the boundaries.
• Solves business challenges through smart creative design.
• Takes ownership, leads and manages/directs initiatives and successfully executes through all stages of creative development on target, on time and on budget.
• Effective communication with peers, senior management and client across all topics from team/people management, business to creative.
• Conducts regular assessment of team strengths and opportunities.
• Responsible for oversight of all final project artwork prior to client approval and final release for print.
• Participates in the recruiting and hiring process and is responsible for on boarding and training new employees.  
• Promotes collaboration, support and inclusion to create a positive work environment.
• Sharp attention to detail.
• Effectively communicates with client and RRD leadership regarding situations that require decisions, actions and may include problems.
• Self-motivated individual with a positive attitude.

Qualifications

Job Knowledge & Skills

The duties and responsibilities described above are the essential functions of the job.  The qualifications below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in discipline related field and 8+ yrs. of experience
• Impressive portfolio of imaginative work showcasing a variety of experience
• Retail, agency or in-house corporate retail design experience preferred.
• Understanding of retail omni-channel marketing and the customer journey.
• Well versed on Macintosh platform (OS) and industry standard applications:
  Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and other relevant programs) and Micro