[Hiring] Art Director @CNX

Role Description

As Art Director, you own the visual craft and creative judgment that Orbit's automation cannot produce on its own. You set creative direction, lead the human-led steps of the production workflow, and are accountable for the brand fidelity and executional quality of everything that carries a client's name. You are client-facing: presenting work, defending creative rationale, and building trust with senior marketing and brand stakeholders at global enterprise brands.

• Own creative direction. Set the visual territory for campaigns: define the creative concept, art direction, and design system that a campaign lives within, and ensure every asset produced against it holds together.
• Direct from the brief. Interpret Orbit's pre-populated briefs and translate business objectives into clear, on-brand, commercially accountable creative.
• Develop and maintain design systems, brand kits, templates, and component libraries.
• Produce and direct client-ready design across digital and print: brand campaigns, HTML email, IAB display, social static and carousels, sales and marketing decks, landing pages, and long-form editorial.
• Own human-led typography: type hierarchy, scale, tracking, and legibility across render contexts.
• Direct AI image generation and correct it using various tools.
• Apply an AI-tells checklist and a brand-adherence review to every asset before release.
• Serve as a creative point of contact for assigned accounts: present work, walk stakeholders through creative rationale, and manage revision cycles with professionalism.
• Communicate confidently with senior client contacts on creative direction and executional decisions.
• Balance strict brand-standards compliance with creative ambition.
• Serve as the human judgment and craft layer over Orbit's automated pipeline.
• Use AI tools as a standard part of your production workflow for ideation, generation, and iteration.
• Contribute to the refinement of Orbit's creative workflows, prompting standards, brand-token systems, and creative governance.
• Act as a recognized expert on creative craft within the Orbit team and the broader Marketing Solutions function.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of art direction or senior design experience, ideally in B2B, agency, or embedded team environments serving enterprise brands.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating hands-on creative production and art direction across digital and print.
• Demonstrated command of typography, composition, color, and brand systems.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma; working proficiency in Canva.
• Practical experience using generative AI in professional design work.
• Proven client-facing experience: presenting creative, defending rationale, and navigating senior stakeholder feedback.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to proof your own work.
• Firm command of brand voice and the ability to interpret and apply brand guidelines faithfully.
• A self-starter who works well autonomously and within a team.
• Discipline across type, color accuracy, asset naming, version control, and production readiness.

Requirements

• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Adobe Firefly
• Figma
• Canva
• Claude (Anthropic)

Preferred

• Affinity (Designer, Photo, Publisher)
• Midjourney
• Motion design or video experience (After Effects, Premiere Pro, or equivalent).
• Experience with Adobe Firefly Custom Models or comparable brand-tuned generative pipelines.
• Print production and pre-press control for long-form editorial and client-distributed documents.
• Experience mentoring or leading junior creative talent.
• Comfort building process in ambiguous environments.

Location

CRI Work-at-Home

Time Type

Full time