Art Director
OLIVER | The Brandtech Group · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
HybridArt & Creative$68k–$76k/yrFull-time
About the role
As Art Director, you'll work as both thinker and maker. You'll concept alongside copywriters and strategists, then pick up a camera and bring the work to life yourself. Embedded in a fast-moving social newsroom, you'll react to real-time cultural moments, shape brand voice across platforms, and extend ideas from social into digital, traditional, and experiential. You'll present your thinking with clarity — to Creative Directors and directly to brand teams — and manage projects from brief through final delivery without losing sight of craft or consistency.
What you will be doing
- Concept culture-forward ideas, campaigns, and activations built for social-first audiences, extending across digital, traditional, and experiential
- Operate in a social newsroom environment, identifying and responding to real-time cultural moments on behalf of clients brand portfolio
- Plan, shoot, and edit photo and video content, applying a strong eye for craft, composition, storytelling, and brand voice
- Partner with Social Strategists to shape creative content strategies across organic and paid channels
- Present and articulate ideas clearly to Creative Directors and brand teams
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously from brief through final delivery, maintaining quality and consistency across all assets
What you need to be great in this role
- A portfolio with a clear social and digital emphasis, demonstrating both conceptual thinking and hands-on production craft
- Hands-on production skills: shooting, editing, retouching, and layout
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign) and/or Final Cut Pro
- The ability to translate strategy into a visual idea, and a visual idea into polished, finished content
- A genuine understanding of culture — entertainment, sports, gaming, and emerging platforms — and how brands participate meaningfully within them
- Experience working in a social-first or newsroom-style creative environment
- Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to art direction and visual production, used to enhance output quality and efficiency
- Experience developing personal workflows to support ideation, concepting, and production
- Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply considered human judgement
- Agentic approach to creative problem-solving: breaking complex briefs into clear, actionable paths forward
Req ID: 18073
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Salary Range
$68,000 - $76,000 USD
Our values
- Be Ambitious to succeed
- Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
- Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
- Be always learning and listening to understand
- Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
- Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations