Summary
YOUR ROLE :
Rapp is seeking a Senior Art Director for our agency on the Army account. In this senior position, the employee must provide strong conceptual thinking, highly developed design skills and expertise in a wide range of design programs.
You must push the boundaries of creative excellence all while ensuring the delivery of required results. The appropriate candidate must also have the ability to work with members of the creative department as well as team members from other core departments and agencies in order to achieve client satisfaction.
Description
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Execute creative concepts that are on strategy across all direct response media (email, direct mail, print, display, social, digital, TV, radio) with minimal supervision.
- Generate breakthrough ideas and constantly strive for new, better, more innovative solutions.
- Must be able to handle more high-level projects, as well as several assignments at a time.
- Demonstrates high-level knowledge of typography and graphic design.
- Ability to think strategically.
- Adapt brands to both digital and direct response environments.
- Show understanding of clients’ marketing needs and consumer attitudes.
- Manage workflow efficiently and take responsibility for timing and delivery.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- Develop great work within guidelines and budget of the assignment.
- Work collaboratively with creative partners, members of creative and core departments.
- Present work coherently and persuasively; express ideas in a form that clients can buy.
- Show knowledge of direct marketing print production process.
- Review and sign-off on mechanical proofs on their assignments.
- Collaborate with Production, Art Buying and Studio.
- Stay current with changes in technology and demonstrate technical competence.
SUCCESS CRITERA :
- Execution excellence.
- Clear & articulate team communication & relationship building.
- Demonstrates an informed and thoughtful POV.
- Proactively tracks trends in design, business and marketplace relevant to Client business.
Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS :
- 5+ years experience.
- Must have digital experience, preferably with CRM and retail or financial experience.
- Must have a strong portfolio primarily of produced work.
- Can present ideas in sketch form.
- Must demonstrate experience / knowledge in direct mail, email, print, web, interactive, display, and social.
- Experience working in HTML-based media.
- Good sense of animation and layout.
- Knowledge and experience using Keynote and PowerPoint.
- Must possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must be an expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (PS, IND, AI, PDF).
- Basic knowledge of prototyping in software such as Figma, Adobe XD or Sketch.
BONUS SKILLS :
- Worked in CRM
- Interest in military / history a plus
Compensation & Benefits
30+ days ago