Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

We’re looking for an Art Director to join our award-winning in-house agency, where we’re responsible for getting the Publicis Sapient brand message out to the world—especially to potential clients.

As an Art Director you’ll create visual solutions that convince clients, prospects, talent and the marketplace to engage with our brand. You’ll use curiosity, collaboration and both conceptual and hands-on skills to deliver creative work across a combination of digital comms, website, social, live events, infographics and even film/video.

As part of our integrated, interdisciplinary “pod” team model, you’ll collaborate closely with a copywriter partner, project manager, marketing directors, technologists and content specialists to bring these ideas to life for your audience and help us grow our brand and business.

Develop creative ideas based on criteria in creative brief and/or direction from senior leadership, collaborating with team members and copywriters
Create and design visuals across a wide range of on and offline channels
Create in-brand layouts and experiences by applying graphic design principles such as color, typography, photographic selection that create a compelling and visually attractive story for audiences
Provide rationale for design choices; assure design meets business objectives whilst creating a compelling journey across touchpoints
Develop style of the presentation for existing concepts/directions; determine best format to execute ideas
Ensure quality and preparation of deliverables for handoff to digital and media ops teams, developers, printers or production partners
Define outlines and storyboards for animations or video (identifying the range of assets to be used, the story to be told)
Research and identify trends in design language and branding and provide recommendations to our internal teams and partners

Qualifications

3+ years of industry experience
Strong design portfolio showing concepts and designs for a variety of brand and marketing projects
Great communication and collaboration mindset. This includes ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale to other team members or clients
A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of applicable programs – Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and PowerPoint. Understanding InVision is a plus.
A good working knowledge of UX/web, online and offline concepting and production, motion, social and content.
Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people
Self-motivated, organized and accountable
Ability to multi-task and work efficiently under pressure with careful attention to detail is a must
Currently working with a creative copywriter, or previous experience in a creative team would be ideal
Understanding of video, editing or animation would be a big plus