Associate Creative Director, Art
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Associate Creative Director, Art leading creative development at RP3. Partnering with copywriters and multidisciplinary teams to create distinctive brand campaigns.
Responsibilities:
- Lead integrated concept development across multiple clients, industries, and business challenges.
- Partner with copywriters and multidisciplinary teams to translate a sharp human insight into a clear, ownable campaign platform.
- Guide teams through divergent thinking, selection, refinement, and execution—pushing beyond the first expected answer.
- Ensure every visual choice serves the central idea and every execution connects back to the strategy.
- Contribute original thinking to pitches, organic growth opportunities, agency initiatives, and thought leadership.
- Define distinctive visual directions across composition, typography, image-making, motion, interaction, and experience.
- Create and direct moodboards, styleframes, storyboards, comps, and prototypes that make ideas tangible and help teams and clients see the possibility.
- Review and refine work with clear, specific feedback that improves both the idea and the execution.
- Mentor art directors, designers, copywriters, and emerging creative leaders while adapting guidance to each person’s strengths and growth goals.
- Frame, present, and sell creative ideas with a compelling visual narrative, strategic rationale, and confidence about how the work will come to life.
- Serve as a trusted advisor who understands the client’s business, brand, audience, competitive landscape, and appetite for creative risk.
Requirements:
- A portfolio demonstrating breakthrough conceptual thinking, distinctive visual worlds, exceptional art direction and design craft, and leadership across integrated campaigns.
- 8–12 years of agency or integrated marketing experience, including meaningful team and client leadership responsibility.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary creative teams and guide campaigns from brief through production.
- Deep expertise in art direction, design systems, typography, image-making, motion, and visual storytelling—paired with strong copy and narrative judgment.
- Experience presenting and selling creative work to senior clients and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success mentoring creative talent and raising the quality of a team—not only individual assignments.
- Strong understanding of how strategy, craft, channels, production, and measurement work together to create business and brand impact.
- Curiosity about culture, technology, platforms, and evolving audience behavior, paired with the judgment to separate signal from novelty.
- Hands-on experience using generative image and emerging visual tools for comps and concept development, with sound judgment about consistency, feasibility, disclosure, licensing, and final-production quality.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, presentation, prioritization, and leadership skills.
- All applicants must live in and be legally eligible to work in the US. Must live in Central or Eastern time zone.
Benefits:
- Company-paid health, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
- Employee-paid dental and vision plans
- 401(k) with immediate employer match
- Inclusive, world-class family leave policy
- Generous PTO - including Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Personal Time, and Karma Days
- Summer Fridays - we shut down at 2 PM every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
- Voluntary benefits including commuter benefits and pet insurance
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