Trade School
Trade School is an agency built for what’s next. Part think tank, part creative agency, part production company, we are a collective of ingenious problem solvers and industrious craftspeople, driven to create remarkable work, built for modern experience and scale.
Senior Art Director
The Senior Art Director is a critical part of the creative team - a conceptual thinker who solves our clients’ business problems with ingenious creative ideas built for all the ways people and brands connect. The Senior Art Director is a true creative craftsperson - passionate about art direction and design - and able to leverage those strengths into ideas and executions that drive
business.
Experience Plusses
- Passion for groundbreaking creative ideas that live natively in the places people spend their digital lives
- Experience working at a modern agency that embraces digital and content creative ideas
- Experience concepting content across the spectrum - digital video, short and long form content, episodic series, TV, radio, social content and emerging platforms
- Portfolio of highly-creative work recognized or awarded for craft, effectiveness or innovation
Responsibilities
- Delivering excellent art direction craft
- Generating inventive, engaging, strategic creative ideas that have potential to gain the recognition of the industry and culture
- Creating bar-raising creative work engineered for the social and digital space consistently
- Shepherding a creative idea from inception through to production
- Collaborating with cross functional teams to deliver solutions that work across mediums and platforms for multi-audience, multi-media campaigns
- Demonstrating an expertise in the content and digital spaces brands use to engage with their audiences, and passion for emerging platforms and a passion for what’s next
- Drive for experimentation, ideation, tinkering, and making things in service of continual learning and growing
- Cultivating a strong understanding of the unique creative opportunities and strategic differences of different platforms (Meta vs. Pinterest vs. OLA for example)
- Ability to understand a brand’s identity and core guidelines and deliver highly-creative work that honors it
- Collaboration with the larger team in service of a successful project. Accountability and responsibility for success and excellence
Qualifications
- Portfolio or creative samples demonstrating an understanding of modern advertising
- 5-7 years art direction experience client-side, in-house, at an agency or other creative enterprise
- Strong visual skills
- Strong team collaboration skills
- Effective handling of multiple assignments in a fast-moving environment
- Comfortable with and receptive to feedback; desire to quickly address feedback
- Attention to detail
- Accountability and self-motivation
While Trade School is a remote-friendly workplace, this Senior Art Director position requires a hybrid work schedule, including occasional in-person internal and client meetings and possible work travel.
