Art Director (CBS)

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Overview and Responsibilities:

The Art Director will work with Creative Directors, designers, and strategy partners to bring to life inspirational creative campaigns and will lead the creative through line of our campaigns by building out style guides and vision boards that communicate our 360-marketing campaigns. This role will be an executor – landing vision for how the CBS brand and CBS Studios come to life across all creative marketing efforts. Showing mastery in the following key creative tools – Adobe After Effects and/or Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. The Art Director will have a track record in developing breakthrough creative, as well as leading the creative expression of our marketing objectives through specific strategies and tactics.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build multiple conceptual directions for large campaigns with the help of internal and external creative teams
• Bringing vision to life through style guides, in-situ design iterations, strategic consumer journey presentations, mockups, and at times, final deliverables
• Ensure that all assets meet a high-level of quality; aligned with the objectives of any given campaign strategy as well as the CBS brand mission/vision
• Act as the point of contact for all key art requests from producing partners and all agency assets
• Arrange meetings with agencies and internal partners
• Work with 360 Creative Directors to proof of all final deliverables
• Work with Legal, and the Asset Management and Acquisitions team to lead asset delivery to/from agencies (photography, templates, titles designs, logos, tune ins, etc) and to/from our DAM
• Work with Finance, Brand, Media, and Campaign Managers on budgetary needs for creative and production timelines
• Evolve the CBS brand and department culture by taking calculated creative risks, encouraging new and radical ideas, and producing groundbreaking creative for marketing
• Work closely with internal partners to continually be a leader with innovative creative ideas
• Collaborate effectively with other marketing team leaders, as well as other partners outside of marketing to develop creative ideas
• Work collaboratively, opportunistically, and proactively across our Paramount sister brands, networks and platforms to support our marketing objectives

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of creative campaign development experience, primarily in entertainment
• Experience leading creative and/or marketing budgets
• Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint, Keynote, OneDrive, Frame.io, InDesign, Photoshop, Jira, and Widen is preferred

Additional Qualifications:

• Highly creative with ability to concept and develop forward-thinking ideas for a wide range of entertainment marketing asset types
• Strong understanding of traditional and digital entertainment marketing
• Phenomenal teammate able to form relationships quickly with internal and external partners with a wide range of personality types
• Experience producing and delivering a high volume of creative marketing assets, on time and on budget
• A proven leader who motivates, encourages and drives dynamic creative thinking
• Comfortable in a test-and-learn environment
• Possess strong decision-making skills and can operate with significant autonomy and discretion
• Detail oriented with strong project management skills
• Ability to prioritize in a complex, fast-paced environment
• An excellent listener and communicator with a high EQ
• Focused and driven to excellence at the accomplishment of all tasks
• Accepts accountability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

CBS, a subsidiary of Paramount Global, creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. It includes some of the industry’s most successful and popular brands and businesses: C