[Hiring] Art Director @Coral Gardeners Association

Role Description

Under the guidance of the Creative Director, the Art Director will help deploy and elevate the visual identity of Coral Gardeners. This is a hands-on, high-craft role: you bring our brand guidelines to life across every touchpoint, creating compelling content and campaigns that raise awareness and make ocean conservation so beautiful it's impossible to ignore.

• Master and apply Coral Gardeners' brand guidelines with precision and consistency across all visuals.
• Create compelling content and creative campaigns that raise awareness for coral conservation and drive engagement with our mission.
• Produce high-quality graphic design work across all formats: social content, campaign assets, ads, newsletters, decks, packaging, merch, and partner collateral.
• Translate creative briefs into engaging, on-brand visual executions that elevate our mission and aesthetic standards.
• Build and maintain templates, design systems, and reusable assets that ensure brand consistency across the organization.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support their visual needs while upholding brand standards at every level.
• Stay ahead of design trends, social formats, and visual culture to keep our outputs fresh, relevant, and platform-native.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience in graphic design or art direction, with a strong portfolio.
• Sharp brand sensitivity and a strong design aesthetic, with the ability to generate original concepts and think outside the box.
• Exceptional graphic design skills: typography, composition, color theory, and layout, across both digital and print.
• Proficiency in software such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other relevant tools.
• Strong knowledge of social media platforms and their respective creative specs and formats.
• Experience working with or alongside creative agencies is a strong plus.
• Fluency in English is required; proficiency in French is a plus.

Requirements

• Passionate about impact-storytelling and ocean conservation.
• Genuinely nice human being – good vibes only policy.
• Well balanced between ideator and action-focused.
• Autonomous and resourceful in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You own your workload and figure things out.
• Versatile by nature: equally at ease designing a social campaign, a pitch deck, a merch collection, or an office poster.
• A youthful, trend-aware eye for design, paired with meticulous attention to detail.
• A strong communicator, receptive to feedback and direction.

Benefits

• Paid opportunity: salary & benefits to be discussed depending on your profile and experience.
• Contract: Full-time freelance.
• Time off: 5 weeks of paid leave per year.
• Environment: Remote-first position, with travel to our headquarters in Moorea, French Polynesia.