Junior Art Director
Omnicom Group · Los Angeles · $50,000–$65,000 (stated in the posting)
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Junior Art Director
Location: Los Angeles
Department: Creative / Design
Experience Level: Mid-Level (3–5 Years)
Job Description
We are seeking a creative, hands-on Junior Art Director who combines strong design fundamentals with an eagerness to grow in art direction. You will work closely with Art Directors and Senior Art Directors to develop and produce digital creative, balancing design exploration with hands-on production.
You will spend the majority of your time designing digital campaign assets, adapting established style guides and visual toolkits, building production-ready files, and extending creative across channels and formats. Working side-by-side with creative, project management, and production teams, you will support high-volume digital campaigns, digital experiences, and brand assets while developing your ability to make design decisions and contribute to the creative process.
You have a strong eye for typography, layout, composition, and visual consistency, with an interest in developing your ability to work across different visual styles and creative systems. You are detail-oriented, curious, and comfortable learning new tools and workflows to produce high-quality work efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop digital creative assets and visual layouts across display, social, e-commerce, mobile, email, DOOH, and other digital formats based on established creative direction.
- Support the visual development and adaptation of high-volume digital campaigns across multiple channels, formats, and audiences.
- Create digital assets using image compositing, photo manipulation, typography, and precise layout design, following established creative direction and brand guidelines.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of style guides, flexible templates, and visual toolkits, adapting established creative while maintaining design integrity and brand consistency.
- Collaborate with Art Directors and Senior Art Directors on concept exploration, image curation, mood boards, and visual treatments, contributing ideas and design solutions.
- Leverage Generative AI tools and emerging design workflows to explore ideas, create visual variations, and support efficient asset production.
Basic Qualifications
- 1 to 3 years of experience in digital design, visual communication, or production design within a fast-paced creative agency or high-output in-house creative team.
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or equivalent work experience.
- Portfolio showcasing strong creative concepts, exceptional typography, strong design sensibility, polished visual craft, and digital experiences or campaign assets across multiple channels, including motion or animated digital assets.
- Exceptionally organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple fast-moving design deliverables.
- Experience designing for digital experiences, platforms, storefronts, products, or services.
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with familiarity using Generative AI visual tools in creative workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with high volume and tight deadlines
- Experience working with technology, retail, consumer, or enterprise brands.
- Experience established brand guidelines, style guides, templates, or design systems.
- Strong understanding of adapting creative systems and style guides across channels, formats, and audiences.
- Experience with image compositing, retouching, photo manipulation, motion, or animation.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where rapid iteration, collaboration, and alignment to brand guidelines are the norm.
$50,000 - $65,000
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