Art Director III- #26-18420

Duration: 12 months

Description:

This Art Director will scale our new illustration style across the org by art directing and directly executing illustrations and animations for in-product use. You have a point of view and collaborate with illustrators, art directors, animators, content designers, engineers and product designers to ensure a consistent brand system across the Clients landscape. You should prioritize the highest level of craft by maintaining a strong attention to detail. The ideal candidate for this role is an innovative problem-solver with a systems mindset, guiding high-quality outputs through productive iteration. The successful candidate should have strong, focused experience in illustration and animation and the ability to design clear and consistent in-product storytelling.

Must-have Qualifications:

• An illustration portfolio that demonstrates both direction of, and hands on execution of, conceptual, compositional, and color skills
• Proficient with Adobe Illustrator and vector graphics
• Familiar and comfortable with creating and exporting simple vector animations in After Effects

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4 years’ relevant illustration experience
• Experience adopting in-house illustration styles
• Highly detail-oriented and a systems thinker
• Works quickly and efficiently, without sacrificing quality
• Strong communication skills with non-design partners
• Ability to think at a high level about how all aspects of a product (content, design, and illustration) work together, and how illustration can be used to strengthen user experience
• Interest in upleveling workflows with internal AI tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with how to work in product
• Familiar and comfortable with Figma

Responsibilities:

• Synthesize product partner goals and user needs into actionable creative briefs.
• Leverage exceptional visual storytelling and clear feedback and to guide the creation of high-craft, conceptually compelling illustrations and animations that support the comprehension of complex in-product features.
• Deeply understand the in-house style guide and color palette and scale it consistently across our illustration libraries in collaboration with multiple illustrators.
• Consistently evolve our in-house style guide to meet developing product needs with new illustration standards and guidelines.
• Deeply understand how our illustrations and animations are integrated in the design system and flag opportunities to uplevel its implementation.
• Clearly communicate directions and their tradeoffs to cross-functional partners.
• Participate and present in team crits, design sprints and workshops.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines efficiently and effectively.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

About US Tech Solutions: US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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