1000heads - Senior Art Director (Freelance)

Art Director is needed in Los Angeles, United States.

Client: 1000heads

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Contract: Freelance

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Art Director who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves the challenge of discovering engaging and innovative content that genuinely excites our target audience. You’ll be the hands-on visionary involved in creating impactful social and digital campaigns, from concept to execution, working on a design-savvy team and across clients to help brands effectively tell their story through various social channels.

In this specific role, we’re looking for a Freelance Sr. Art Director with a strong background designing for social, and motion expertise is essential! We are looking for immediate availability. Must be based in Los Angeles.

If you are passionate about all of the small things and are eager to get your hands dirty with ever-evolving work across various projects, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Create and concept social posts, ideas, and campaigns across different social platforms (bonus points for TikTok)
• Working from a brief with a copywriter or other members of the creative team, generating ideas to present to clients
• Determine how to best represent concepts visually
• Producing sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and layouts based on creative ideas to bring to life concepts for presentations and proposals
• Understanding marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience, and developing artistic approach and style to match
• Working on designs to produce effective social and digital campaigns
• Coordinating with specialists, such as artists, photographers and developers
• Offering input to creative meetings and sharing ideas
• Producing attractive and effective designs for all media
• Managing projects, on and off location, and working within a budget

Requirements

• Solution-oriented individual / someone who can work well under occasional fast-turn deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellence in all visual elements (layout, typography, hierarchy and composition)
• A keen eye for design and visualization, and a meticulous attention to detail
• Time management and multitasking abilities
• Creativity skills and problem-solving aptitude
• Ability to meet deadlines in a high pressure environment
• Inspirational and visionary with the self-drive to maintain and improve design standards
• Team player with flexibility to step in when needed on any project
• Minimum 5-6 years experience
• Agency or social media experience strongly preferred
• Online portfolio with provided link

Benefits

Work with a talented team on an exciting project in the health and wellness space!

About 1000heads

1000heads is a social transformation company. We help global brands adapt to rapid and continual shifts in media, technology and culture. The company delivers social-first data, insights, strategic consultancy, and creative services to clients around the world. We deliver social & influencer campaigns to our US roster, which includes; Google, Meta, De Beers, Nature Made, Lego Education, and more.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

For more information on 1000heads, visit www.1000heads.com