Art Director (Contemporary Fashion)

About the role

The Art Director will be responsible for shaping and elevating the visual expression of a modern fashion and lifestyle brand across various customer touchpoints. The role requires a combination of strong creative instincts and hands-on design execution, with a focus on bringing compelling brand stories to life in a fast-paced, commerce-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive creative direction across digital marketing, ecommerce, retail, print, and brand campaigns.
• Develop seasonal visual concepts that translate into engaging multi-channel creative.
• Create polished assets for websites, email, paid media, social, presentations, packaging, and collateral.
• Partner cross-functionally with marketing, digital, retail, and leadership teams to transform business goals into strong creative solutions.
• Lead and support photoshoot production, including concepting, shot planning, casting input, location research, and on-set creative oversight.
• Ensure consistent brand standards across all customer-facing materials.
• Oversee creative workflows, manage timelines, and deliver high-quality work across multiple concurrent projects.
• Contribute ideas that strengthen brand identity, customer engagement, and overall campaign performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design or art direction experience within fashion, beauty, lifestyle, luxury, or consumer-facing brands.
• A strong portfolio that showcases elevated visual taste, digital campaign work, and brand storytelling.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• A sharp eye for typography, layout, color, and imagery.
• Experience designing for responsive digital environments and ecommerce platforms.
• Confidence balancing conceptual thinking with hands-on production.
• Strong collaboration, presentation, and project management skills.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

Qualifications

• Experience building cohesive visual campaigns across both brand and performance channels.
• A strong understanding of online merchandising and customer-facing digital experiences.
• A refined aesthetic sensibility with a point of view that feels current, aspirational, and commercially relevant.

Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• A sharp eye for typography, layout, color, and imagery.
• Experience designing for responsive digital environments and ecommerce platforms.
• Confidence balancing conceptual thinking with hands-on production.
• Strong collaboration, presentation, and project management skills.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package.