Art Director

Position Summary

The Art Director is responsible for protecting, strengthening, and evolving EO’s visual brand across global, regional, chapter, and member-facing touchpoints.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Brand Stewardship and Core EO Materials

• Own and maintain EO’s core visual brand materials, including brand guidelines, core templates, executive presentation decks, one-pagers, campaign toolkits, chapter-facing materials, and other high-use global assets.
• Ensure EO’s visual identity is applied consistently across global, regional, chapter, and member-facing materials.
• Serve as a primary reviewer and advisor for brand standards, including logo use, typography, color, imagery, layout, accessibility, and visual hierarchy.
• Partner with Marketing and Communications leadership to evolve EO’s visual system in ways that strengthen prestige, belonging, clarity, and usability.
• Develop scalable design systems and templates that empower chapters, regions, portfolios, and staff teams to create on-brand materials with less friction.
• Support version control and quality control for core EO materials so the organization has one clear source of truth for current, approved creative assets.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve EO’s brand materials for a global audience.

• Campaign Art Direction and Creative Vision Lead

• Translate campaign strategy, audience insights, and messaging into strong creative platforms that can scale across video, digital, social, email, events, print, presentations, and chapter toolkits.
• Create campaign visual systems that are distinctive, flexible, and aligned with EO’s global brand standards.
• Partner with writers, product marketers, communications leads, video producers, and project managers to shape campaign briefs, creative concepts, and final deliverables.
• Provide creative direction for campaign photography, video graphics, motion design, event visuals, presentation design, and social content.
• Ensure bespoke campaigns feel elevated and emotionally resonant while remaining clear, practical, and usable across EO’s global network.

• Creative Quality and Production Oversight

• Concept, design, review, and approve high-priority creative deliverables across print, digital, web, social, video, presentation, and event formats.
• Provide clear creative direction to internal designers, freelance designers, agencies, and production partners.
• Review creative work for brand alignment, quality, accuracy, accessibility, and usability before final delivery.
• Partner with Creative Operations and Production Management to scope design work, estimate timelines, identify resource needs, and protect creative quality.
• Help build creative processes that allow the team to deliver strong work with realistic timelines, clear roles, and appropriate review cycles.
• Maintain a high bar for design excellence while supporting the practical needs of a fast-moving, global organization.

• Internal Brand Education and Collaboration

• Serve as an internal brand consultant for EO teams, portfolios, regions, and chapter-facing stakeholders.
• Educate staff, member leaders, and vendors on EO’s visual brand standards and how to apply them effectively.
• Help create training materials, office hours, and guidance that make it easier for others to use EO’s brand correctly.
• Partner with regional and chapter stakeholders to recommend and empower brand adoption in a way that creates clarity and reduces friction.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure creative solutions meet strategic goals, audience needs, and brand standards.
• Stay current on design, accessibility, digital, and visual storytelling trends that can strengthen EO’s brand expression.

Qualifications, Skills, And Knowledge Required

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, art direction, brand design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of experience in brand design, art direction, visual identity, campaign creative, or creative production.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating brand systems, campaign art direction, layout design, typography, digital design, and multi-channel creative execution.
• Experience owning or governing brand standards within a complex organization.
• Strong understanding of visual identity systems, typography, color, layout, accessibility, imagery, and production best practices.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Figma or similar design tools, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.
• Ability to create elevated design work while also building practical templates and systems others can use.
• Experience directing freelancers, agencies, designers, photographers, motion designers, or production partners.
• Strong creative judgment and ability to give clear, actionable feedback.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, accuracy, and brand consistency.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with marketing, communications, digital, events, product, regional, and executive stakeholders.
• Global mindset and sensitivity to cultural differences, translation needs, accessibility, and local adaptation.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain creative decisions clearly and confidently.
• Multilingual is a plus.