Job Title: Art Director
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months with potential to extend
Pay Range: $140-$150/Hr on W2 (DOE)
Must-Have Skills
- Illustration experience
- Familiarity with animation work, directing or creating in After Effects
- Art Direction
- Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator and Figma
- Portfolio required with submission
Nice-to-have Skills
- In-product tech experience
Summary:
- 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 client 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:
- 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.
Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.