Senior Art Director, Performance Creative

Job Description:

**San Francisco CA or Los Angeles CA location preferred. Must work in PST hours due to client location**

Were looking for a Senior Designer/Art Director to join our Performance Creative team working with a leading global technology brand at the forefront of digital media creative software and AI.

Were looking for someone with exceptional visual taste strong design fundamentals and the ability to turn strategy into compelling creative. Youll help shape the visual direction of work across social digital web video and emerging formats bringing ideas to life in ways that are relevant to audiences connected to the brand and built to make an impact.

Reporting to the Creative Director Performance Creative youll collaborate with creative strategy account and production partners to develop ideas from concept through execution.

What Youll Do

• Lead the visual development and art direction of creative across paid and organic social digital display email web video and other experiences.
• Translate creative strategy and audience insights into strong visual concepts campaigns and scalable design systems.
• Bring a strong point of view to imagery typography composition layout motion photography and visual storytelling.
• Push the creative possibilities of AI using image and video generation tools to explore ideas develop visual concepts and create compelling finished work.
• Art direct AI-generated creative with intentionshaping visual style composition storytelling and execution rather than simply generating assets.
• Develop storyboards motion concepts animations video concepts PR-ready assets and experiential creative as needed.
• Create flexible visual systems that allow ideas to scale across audiences channels and formats while maintaining a cohesive brand experience.
• Partner with copywriters strategists designers producers and other creative disciplines to shape and elevate ideas from brief through final delivery.
• Present creative internally and to clients clearly articulating the thinking behind the work and building confidence in the creative direction.
• Stay curious about new creative tools technologies and cultural trends and bring fresh thinking and experimentation to the work.
• Help raise the creative bar through strong craft thoughtful art direction collaboration and mentorship.

What Were Looking For

• 3 years in an art direction or design direction role in advertising creative tech or a related discipline.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual taste conceptual thinking design craft and art direction across digital and social.
• Strong experience using AI tools for image and video generation with the ability to develop refine and art direct AI-generated creative.
• A strong understanding of how to use AI as part of the creative process while maintaining a high bar for originality craft and visual quality.
• Advanced design skills and expert-level proficiency in Figma including component libraries and systems-based design.
• Strong understanding of composition typography imagery photography motion and visual storytelling.
• Experience developing creative for digital and social channels with an understanding of how audience message format and channel influence the work.
• Strong technical design and production skills including file setup asset creation and scalable systems.
• Experience working within established brand systems and the ability to extend them into new creative territories.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate creative thinking and collaborate across disciplines.
• A curious collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for experimenting with new tools technologies and creative approaches.
• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design Art Direction Visual Communication or a related field required; in lieu of degree equivalent experience in a relevant field required.

The annual salary range for this position is $68000 - $105000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience knowledge skills and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

Medical vision and dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

At least 15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave and

Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits please visit .

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