Art Director

Established in 2004 OLIVER is the worlds first and only specialist in designing building and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40 countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group were at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency spark creativity and drive insightful decision-making empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Art Director

Location: Chicago Illinois

About the role:

As Art Director youll work as both thinker and maker. Youll concept alongside copywriters and strategists then pick up a camera and bring the work to life yourself. Embedded in a fast-moving social newsroom youll react to real-time cultural moments shape brand voice across platforms and extend ideas from social into digital traditional and experiential. Youll present your thinking with clarity to Creative Directors and directly to brand teams and manage projects from brief through final delivery without losing sight of craft or consistency.

What you will be doing:

• Concept culture-forward ideas campaigns and activations built for social-first audiences extending across digital traditional and experiential
• Operate in a social newsroom environment identifying and responding to real-time cultural moments on behalf of clients brand portfolio
• Plan shoot and edit photo and video content applying a strong eye for craft composition storytelling and brand voice
• Partner with Social Strategists to shape creative content strategies across organic and paid channels
• Present and articulate ideas clearly to Creative Directors and brand teams
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously from brief through final delivery maintaining quality and consistency across all assets

What you need to be great in this role:

• A portfolio with a clear social and digital emphasis demonstrating both conceptual thinking and hands-on production craft
• Hands-on production skills: shooting editing retouching and layout
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Premiere Pro InDesign) and/or Final Cut Pro
• The ability to translate strategy into a visual idea and a visual idea into polished finished content
• A genuine understanding of culture entertainment sports gaming and emerging platforms and how brands participate meaningfully within them
• Experience working in a social-first or newsroom-style creative environment
• Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to art direction and visual production used to enhance output quality and efficiency
• Experience developing personal workflows to support ideation concepting and production
• Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply considered human judgement
• Agentic approach to creative problem-solving: breaking complex briefs into clear actionable paths forward

Our values shape everything we do:

BeAmbitiousto succeed

BeImaginativeto push the boundaries of whats possible

BeInspirationalto do groundbreaking work

Bealways learningand listening to understand

BeResults-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community clients and creations

OLIVER a part of the Brandtech Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender sexual orientation gender identity age neurodivergence disability status or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively we work towards our missionembedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.