[Hiring] Art Director @APAC

Role Description

We’re looking for a GenAI Art Director who will use the Pencil platform to deliver high quality, high performing ads to either enterprise clients or small businesses. You will likely have a team working with you and by nature of your expertise they will largely engage with you to resolve creative challenges they are coming up against and overcome the limitations of GenAI today.

You will require deep experience with GenAI tools and what they can do for the advertising industry and for marketing clients, as well as the positivity, energy, and lateral problem solving to explore and expand techniques to push beyond any perceived creative limitations. One key measure of your success will be your ability to inspire a team with creative solutions day-to-day.

Together with your team, you will develop digital concepts, art direction, and assets that demonstrate exemplary standards in craft, whilst adhering to the client’s brand guidelines. Experience in Adobe After Effects / Motion graphics is essential.

What you will be doing:

• Must be a leader overseeing a team of creatives for both copy and design.
• Art direct and produce high standards in craft and innovative work across platforms.
• A love of design, motion graphics, and storytelling while best demonstrating GenAI capabilities within a systematic GenAI delivery process.
• Be accountable for the full creative process from concept to execution.
• Manage the preparation of all finished artwork files that will comply with the correct output specifications.
• Ensure all design work is aligned with the latest digital requirements and social trends.
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Work with our Training team to actively explore, implement, and explain new GenAI techniques to help our wider user base achieve high quality creative outputs.
• Work with our Product & Engineering teams to test new GenAI features and provide feedback to drive platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong in ideation and concepting from big ideas to digital and social campaigns.
• Strong art direction and visualization skills from static to motion.
• Good understanding of the digital landscape and social assets development.
• Strong typographic skills.
• A highly creative integrated designer that can positively influence client briefs with your innovative ideas.
• Confident in bringing your own ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of artwork collateral.
• Understanding of design principles and an awareness of UX, UI, and Responsive Design trends.
• Effectively organizing and prioritizing workload to manage timely client delivery.
• Excellent Adobe CS skills. Experience in Adobe After Effects / motion graphics.
• Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.
• Attention to detail and able to work under own initiative.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent experience working closely with clients during kick-off.
• Confident in presenting work to internal teams and to clients.
• Believes in making this world a better place through meaningful work.
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
• A passionate, driven, and enthusiastic creative.
• Never settling for good and constantly strives to deliver the best.
• Self-motivated, working with high accountability and little supervision.
• Collaborative team player with an open mind.
• Possess the aptitude to learn new software effectively.
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies.
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical.
• Willingness to learn and incorporate AI into design processes.

Requirements

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Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment.
• All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
• Ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets.