Public Storage is seeking a skilled detail-driven Art Director to help elevate and evolve our visual brand across social digital and marketing channels. Reporting to the Creative Director for Brand & Social this role blends high-quality execution with system thinking and cross-channel versatility.
Youll bring ideas to life through thoughtful design maintain visual consistency across touchpoints and support the development of an updated brand system. This is a hands-on creative roleideal for someone who enjoys crafting beautiful polished work while contributing to broader brand direction.
This is not a people-management role but you may guide junior designers freelancers and content creators on a project basis.
Key Responsibilities
Brand Stewardship & Visual Systems
Ensure all creative follows and elevates the visual identity across channels.
Maintain and refine typographic standards spacing systems layout rules color usage and imagery.
Help evolve and operationalize brand guidelines templates and design systems.
Partner with the Creative Director to ensure all work feels cohesive modern and distinctly Public Storage.
Social Content Execution
Design high-quality static motion and mixed-media assets for Instagram Facebook TikTok LinkedIn and YouTube.
Adapt creative across formats and platforms while maintaining consistency and clarity.
Translate creative direction into polished social content that is clean engaging and audience centric.
Support rapid production cycles without sacrificing craft.
Cross-Functional Creative Support
Design across a wide range of needs: landing pages digital ads emails print collateral and marketing assets.
Work closely with Marketing Digital PR Customer Care and Field teams to support enterprise initiatives.
Ensure all creative aligns with brand standards and campaign objectives.
Concept Development & Collaboration
Contribute visual ideation moodboards and early-stage concepting for campaigns and social initiatives.
Collaborate with copywriters producers and cross-functional partners to execute integrated creative.
Bring fresh thinking strong aesthetic judgment and a problem-solving mindset to creative discussions.
Creative Operations & Systems
Support the creation and maintenance of templates asset libraries and documentation.
Help identify workflow improvements that increase speed efficiency and consistency.
Uphold quality control across final outputs ensuring accuracy and readiness for delivery.
Qualifications :
Bachelors degree in Design Visual Communications or related field (or equivalent experience).
6 years of professional experience in design or art direction across digital social and brand environments.
Strong portfolio demonstrating visual systems clean layouts social content and multi-format design.
High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite Figma (or similar collaborative design tools).
Deep understanding of social-first design platform formats and emerging visual trends.
Strong typography composition and layout fundamentals.
Ability to manage multiple projects prioritize effectively and meet deadlines.
Excellent communication skills and comfort presenting work and rationale.
Preferred
Experience working in consumer brands multi-location retail or service-driven businesses.
Familiarity with motion graphics lightweight animation or video editing.
Experience supporting brand system development or design system implementation.
Exposure to influencer UGC or content-creator workflows.
Bilingual or multicultural design experience is a plus.
Additional Information :
Workplace
One of our values pillars is to work as OneTeam and we believe that there is no replacement for in-person collaboration but understand the value of some flexibility. Public Storage teammates are expected to work in the office five days each week with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month.
Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
**Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.**
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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