[Hiring] Art Director @Tinuiti

Role Description

Set the strategic creative direction for how we design across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Chewy, and emerging commerce platforms — defining the point of view, not just executing against it.

• Lead the highest-stakes commerce design work across our top accounts, from A+ Content and Brand Stores to DPIs, video, and Commerce Media creative.
• Know commerce creative systems thoroughly — and know exactly when and how to break it, bend it, or push past defaults to do work the platform hasn't seen before.
• Translate Amazon, Walmart, and marketplace performance data into sharper creative decisions, and use it to defend, refine, or kill ideas with conviction.
• Design with a sharp awareness of search and SEO best practices for e-commerce — understanding how creative interacts with discoverability, indexing, keyword strategy, and emerging surfaces like Amazon's Rufus and AI-driven shopping assistants.
• Articulate the why behind every design choice — through the lens of the shopper, the platform, the brand, and the business outcome. Be able to articulate this internally and with clients.
• Consult with retail operations, performance, and strategy teams as the senior creative voice on commerce; partner across functions to make the work smarter.
• Serve as the creative lead on new business pitches and client engagements - building the narrative, leading the room, and helping close the commerce work that defines our practice.
• Mentor design, copy and other studio team members across the commerce team, raising craft, rationale, and judgment across the board.
• Develop frameworks, POVs, and thought leadership that position Tinuiti as the definitive voice in commerce creative.
• Stay ahead of platform changes, beta features, and module rollouts — and turn them into client opportunity before competitors catch on.
• Present at the highest levels with confidence, clarity, and a point of view clients remember.

Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of design experience, with significant time designing for Amazon and at least one other major commerce platform.
• You're recognized as an expert in the Commerce Creative ecosystem — A+ / Premium A+, Stores, DPIs, video, Sponsored Brands — and you understand the data behind what actually performs.
• You have a track record of work that reframed what a platform could do, not just work that followed the spec sheet.
• You can lead senior client conversations and pitch rooms, presenting and defending creative thinking at an executive level.
• You're fluent in commerce performance data and use it to make creative sharper, not safer.
• You can articulate strategy as confidently as you can design — the why matters as much as the what.
• You're comfortable operating across creative, retail operations, performance, and sales, and translating between them.
• You've worked in an agency or with retail or commerce brands at scale.
• You have a portfolio that proves all of the above.

Requirements

• The hiring salary range for this role is $100,000 - $115,000 plus a discretionary performance bonus.
• Hiring salaries are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, parity with other team members, and alignment with market data.
• We will provide more information on our benefits, incentive pay, and equity upon request.
• Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO: We offer unlimited paid time off, a fully remote environment, and flexibility to take the time you need, when you need it.
• Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts.
• Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100%.
• Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity.
• Parental Leave: Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.
• Learning and Development: On-demand learning, mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources.