Senior Art Director

About the role

tms is a creative agency, strategic consultancy, sourcing business, and technology provider that engages with over 110 million customers daily for clients like McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas. This role is for a Senior Art Director who will push boundaries, be obsessed with ideas, and champion out-of-the-box thinking.

Responsibilities

• Delivers work that is compelling, creative, on brief and outside the box
• Manages the day-to-day creative delivery, project execution and creative development
• Ability to design and create dynamic and engaging presentations for our clients
• Confidently present fresh perspective and big idea thinking (that’s strategically grounded) to a larger group or to our clients
• Develop and maintain a solid understanding and working knowledge of client's business, brand, consumer, and competitive landscape to inform insightful brand engagements
• Build, develop and create brand and product guidelines that help define the visual look and feel of the brand (and other brand products) through various channels and applications
• Supervise and craft engaging digital experiences. Confidently speak to and coach both internal teams and our clients on best-in-class digital experience design
• Collaborate with clients and internal partners: marketing, technology, product, developers etc.
• Stay current with design trends and how technology and standard methodologies are evolving in the industry - proactively identifying design capabilities and opportunities that should be adopted within the team

Requirements

• 4+ years of proven art direction and design experience in an agency or brand space; Exp. working within the CPG space or retail space (working in promotions, games, and character story design within the kids space a big plus)
• Expert proficiency and considerable hands-on experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator) and Figma and/or Sketch
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, able to inspire others and sell creative vision
• Strong grasp of design around typography, color, photography, layout design, hierarchy, and user experience (motion graphics is a plus)
• Strong portfolio with examples of recent projects demonstrating conceptual concepting, creative thinking and flawless execution
• Experience developing tv and/or online video storyboards, and knowledge of the production, casting and execution of them
• Experience in packaging design and POP display is a plus
• Have critical attention to detail (we’re talking down to the pixel) while not missing the big picture
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client projects and demands at once

Qualifications

• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client projects and demands at once

Skills and experience we would like you to have

• Comfortable diving in on new projects, you enjoy ideating big concepts just as much as producing stellar design work
• You are someone that has the drive to take design thinking and possibilities to the next level
• You are someone that inspires and pushes others

Pay

$93,000 - $98,000 starting salary

Total Rewards

• Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
• Paid parental and medical leave programs
• 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
• 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
• Hybrid work model
• Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
• Inclusive employee resource groups

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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