Art Director
Kettle · San Francisco · $110,000–$140,000 (stated in the posting)
Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are hiring Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with Creative Directors, Designers, Copy, UX, Production, and our client to create world-class digital experiences. You’ll help translate the creative North Star into a clear and own-able design direction, lead the visual development of projects, and guide Designers through execution. You’ll be hands-on in the work while also acting as a creative lead for your project or workstream. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates with you, then this role may be a fit.
These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.
Candidates should have:
- Significant experience in digital design and art direction, with a strong track record of leading projects and delivering pixel-perfect digital work
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including Design, Copy, UX, Motion, Production, and Account
- Strong client collaboration and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate and defend creative and design decisions to senior-level clients and stakeholders
- Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and Sketch, with additional motion, prototyping, or emerging creative technology experience a plus
- Experience mentoring and guiding designers of different levels, including through formal and informal feedback and reviews
- While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies
We’d like to know that you can:
- Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions that answer the brief and bring something extra to the work
- Translate the creative North Star into a clear visual direction that Designers can understand, build from, and ultimately own
- Partner closely with Copy and other creative disciplines to develop simple, relevant concepts and experiences where the writing, design, UX, and art direction feel completely connected
- Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences
- Understand and challenge client needs to ensure the integrity and excellence of the work
- Work through exploration and execution, providing clear feedback while giving them room to solve and contribute
- Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs
- Stay ahead of emerging design practices, technologies, and design culture, identifying opportunities to elevate both design quality and user experience
- Champion an agile design process and establish best practices that raise the quality and consistency of work
- Actively solicit, interpret, and incorporate feedback from diverse sources, using it to improve design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers
- Be both a collaborative lead and a highly proactive individual contributor
The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k - $140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.