Junior Art Director

You are also expected to maintain our company’s standards of creative excellence and, within reason, profitability.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand strategy and consumer insights to sell / recommend ideas brave and effective ideas.
• Effectively work on briefs across industries.
• Proactive in bringing new ideas / concepts for the brands / clients they work with.
• Constantly striving to deliver disruptive ideas
• Comfortable in communicating and presenting rationale for selling /recommending creative ideas to Creative Directors and Clients
• Constantly up skilling, proactively keeping up with creative / social / digital trends and best practices; and how these can be adapted / adopted into ideas and the work.

• Key role in execution/production of multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors.
• Knowledgeable in production, printing, and digital media, and supervise on behalf of the company/ clients when necessary.
• Understand strategy and consumer insights, building off these to develop ideas that delivers on clients’ business objectives.
• Passionate about craft, delivering work of the highest quality.
• Deliver work for creative and effectiveness awards at local and international awards competitions.
• Good time management - Timely in work delivery, proactive in flagging potential delays in timelines before deadlines are missed.

• Display knowledge of the industry and client's business.
• Curious about the business and how it works with an open mind and willingness to learn this side.

• Collaborate and support the creative process with the Creative Leads and other internal teams to deliver great work.
• Key creative contact with integrated teams, engage the team to deliver the best output possible based on the brief.
• Manage and mentor Junior Creatives / interns.

• Solutions orientated, develops solutions to mid-level issues.

Job Specifications

• 3-6 years working experience as an Art Director
• Knowledgeable and understanding of the latest innovations, trends and developments in our industry.
• A proven track record of previous success, as well as a determination to continue to succeed.

• Commercial and creative minded.
• Excellent relationship management.
• Selling and pushing creative standards + delivery.
• Results oriented in business and creative output.

• Team player with a ‘hands-on’ approach
• Responsible, with a ‘can do’, willing and positive attitude to be a support system for our clients
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple projects
• An ability to prioritise workload as well as an ability to pre-empt, identify and respond to problems
• Reliability, i.e.resilience, confidence, tenacity and maturity
• Personal, enthusiastic and committed – capable of gaining trust and respect from colleagues
• Open to feedback and acts on it accordingly and quickly