Art Director (6980)

Elevate the impact of design at a top destination for design talent.

RUN Studios, and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, are seeking an Art Director to join for an approximate 6-month project! This position requires being fully onsite in Seattle, WA.

As an Art Director, you'll lead projects and own relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits our design community while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution. From ideation through launch, you will be responsible for delivering beautiful, insightful and data-driven concepts that translate needs and constraints into customer-focused ideas and solutions. You will be equally strong at concept and execution, articulating end-to-end experiences, and turning that vision into high-quality experiences. This could include video content, user interface designs, presentation design, event signage, and swag.

This role will use data and insights to create campaign strategies and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for events and experiences that will solve customer problems. Candidates should be able to deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction across different touch points. Candidates should have in-depth understanding of Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Figma. For this role, we're looking for a conceptual art director who also has strong design skills and an understanding of UX and motion design.

As an Art Director, You Will

• Conceptualize, design (art), and execute innovative creative for events and experiences.
• Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on objectives.
• Independently lead creative workstreams and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners.
• Obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers both innovation and results.
• Present ideas and concepts internally.
• Proven ability to ideate for print, digital, web, experiential and social.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once within budget and deadlines.

In This Role, You Bring

• 5+ years experience as conceptual creative (Art Director) at advertising agencies and/or as an in-house creative.
• An online creative portfolio demonstrating a conceptual thinking skillset, art direction, and design for branding and events.
• Motion Design Skills (Adobe After Effects, Premier Pro, etc.).
• In-depth understanding of industry design tools (Ex. Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Illustrator), and an advanced understanding of UX design.
• Data-driven and obsessed with measurable impact of a campaign.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Strong organization and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional at your craft and a critical project owner.
• Self-starter with ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task.
• Proven track record of executing projects successfully with teammates in different time zones.

Additional Position Details

• Supervisory Responsibilities

• None.

• Physical Demands

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Work Environment

• Typical for an office setting or home environment.

• Fully onsite in Seattle, WA.

• Travel

• None.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

At RUN Studios we recognize our ultimate success depends on our talented and dedicated workforce. We understand, value, and are grateful for the invaluable contributions made by each employee. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program of evolving competitive benefits specifically designed to support the needs of our employees and their dependents.

Compensation

Pay Range: $55.00 - $68.00 (Hourly)

The successful candidate's pay will be based on various factors such as individual qualifications and work location.

Benefits:

Benefits and perks may vary depending on location and nature of the work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

As an equal opportunity employer, RUN Studios is committed to pay equity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.