[Hiring] Art Director @Pencil

Role Description

Bring the craft of advertising together with the speed of GenAI. You build and operate agentic and nodal creative workflows — connecting insight, concept, copy, imagery and video into scalable systems — so our creative teams and clients can move from idea to finished advertising faster, without losing quality or strategic grounding.

You work day-to-day under the direction of Art Directors and Creative Directors, bringing deep hands-on fluency in GenAI tools and workflows to their briefs. You're not setting creative vision — you're the person in the room who knows how to make the technology deliver on it.

Key Responsibilities

• Creative production
  • Design and deliver creative assets across formats — advertising, digital and print — using GenAI tools.
  • Translate briefs into output: turn briefs into polished creative work that aligns with project objectives and the relevant visual identity.
  • Support flagship projects: contribute to creative production on projects that demonstrate Pencil’s product capabilities.
  • Juggle volume without dropping quality: manage multiple creative requests simultaneously, maintaining quality and consistency across deliverables.
• Quality and client-facing work
  • Brief and review: brief the Creative team and review their daily output.
  • Own quality control: provide daily quality checks on client decks and feedback.
  • Present with confidence: present to clients on AI creative workflows.
• Collaboration and process
  • Stay aligned: work closely with Producers, the Creative Director, and Product teams to ensure output is strategically aligned and technically feasible.
  • Shape the platform: provide feedback on platform and AI tools, workflows, and user experience to support ongoing product improvement.
  • Contribute ideas: help define how GenAI shapes Pencil’s approach to storytelling and design in internal creative discussions.
• Innovation and growth
  • Stay current: keep up with emerging GenAI and design technologies, sharing insights and inspiration with the team.
  • Find better ways of working: identify new techniques and workflows that enhance speed, consistency, or creative quality.
  • Improve what exists: take initiative to improve creative systems, templates, and processes within your projects.
  • Keep growing: seek feedback proactively and apply it to grow both your craft and your creative judgment.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Art Director or similar, ideally in advertising or digital production (essential).
• Hands-on experience with GenAI creative tools across image, video and design generation (essential).
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent design tools (essential).
• Comfortable presenting creative work directly to clients (essential).
• A strong eye for visual identity, brand consistency, and craft (essential).
• Please be prepared to showcase your portfolio.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of GenAI.
• Sponsored professional and personal learning allowance.
• Flexible vacation / time-off policy.
• Competitive health insurance and welfare cover.
• Fully remote work.