We are looking for a hands-on, creative Art Director with graphic design skills to join the Creative Team in Los Angeles. This role demands a high taste level and a strong connection to North American music and pop culture. You will be responsible for contributing innovative art direction and design across a broad range of executional mediums, from new media and digital environments to more traditional formats, ensuring the Serato brand is presented with creative excellence and attention to detail.
Key responsibilities:
- Brand & Creative Leadership
- Work closely with the Creative Director to evolve the Serato brand's visual manifestation into a mature, iconic, and globally recognizable presence.
- Incubate and execute concepts that transcend designed visual executions.
- Source great photography and/or direct photographers.
- Concept video and motion-based visual executions, and direct filmmaker and design maker partners.
- Art Direction & Design Execution
- Contribute to the visual direction and design execution of Serato with an endlessly critical eye for detail.
- Update and maintain the Serato brand guidelines documentation, ensuring correct implementation and helping to establish new design principles.
- Keep up to date with current creative trends and recommend appropriate changes.
- Apply a good working knowledge of social media ‘best practice' creative principles.
- Audio Visual Production
- Conceive, storyboard, and direct motion graphics and audio visual communications (ads, content pieces) in close collaboration with the Creative Director.
- Demonstrate a passion for pop-cultural content production and motion design.
Essential skills candidates will possess:
- Demonstrable art direction and graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
- Proficiency as a finished artist.
- Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Ability to ideate, concept, and execute visual media.
- Experience ideating and directing multi-media communications/campaigns in response to marketing strategies, with a focus on new media and digital environments.
- Ability to solve problems critically, creatively, and effectively.
- Knowledge and appreciation of a wide range of music.
- Ability and passion to learn emerging visual design technology, including AI and generative models, for use in the creative process.
- Freehand illustration and digital rendering skills would be highly advantageous to your application
We are looking for a candidate who is a creative, passionate, organized, and personable team player. The ideal person must be confident in expressing and articulating ideas and opinions effectively while demonstrating the judgment to read the room and contribute constructively.