We’re looking for an Art Director to help enhance our brand identity and tell our story with inspiring visuals. This person has extensive experience executing designs from conception to completion, and consistently produces polished and beautiful work. They are innovative and highly creative, bringing passion and experience to a leadership role.
We are building a global fashion brand for Muslim women, making it easy to look beautiful while adhering to faith, all while promoting a body positive and empowering message!
You are a talented designer and leader with years of experience in interactive design and strong organizational, time management, and people skills. Most importantly, you consistently deliver exceptional results.
For our Manhattan office, we are looking for an open, cheerful and detail-oriented person who will design amazing experiences for our customers. The ideal candidate is a spirited, friendly person, loaded with lots of positive energy and a genuine passion for helping others. They are also energized by the start-up culture and not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do what needs to be done, even when outside of their specific role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Take a leadership role in terms of brand building, visual storytelling, and team coordination.
- Understand our core brand identity and help us shape it further.
- Create smart brand-building ideas, and take ownership of new projects from conception through completion.
- Translate business and marketing objectives into designs that are polished, visually compelling, and emotionally engaging.
- Execute high quality, high performing creative for all social channels, product landing pages, emails, marketing ads and more.
- Lead and coordinate the team in art direction and styling for photo or video shoots.
- Offer constructive feedback on design/visuals to junior staff to strengthen the work of the team.
- Work with our UI designer and possess knowledge of Responsive UI and web design trends.
- Mock homepage and site refreshes and create final assets for the web team.
- Develop templates, processes and style guides to ensure brand consistency while championing design within our organization.
- Create and maintain brand guidelines, tools, templates, and processes across multiple channels to ensure consistency.
REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to be exceptionally creative, with big picture ideas while following through on execution and minute details.
- Ability to work both independently and as a collaborative team player.
- 2+ years industry experience, 2+ years art direction/project management/team leadership.
- Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage workflow and prioritize multiple projects to meet tight deadlines.
- Fashion and/or startup background is a plus.
FACTS ABOUT US
- We’re a passionate team of doers.
- We’re a tech startup with a love for fashion and design.
- We’re focused on empowering women leaders and desire independent thinkers.
- We hire creative and smart people who take pride in what they do.
If you are ready to produce amazing work for a fast-growing fashion brand please send us your resume, cover letter, and portfolio!