Sen. Art Director

Purpose of the role We’re looking for a senior creative to take responsibility for and oversee all creative work for our external channels. You’re ready to set the visionary creative agenda and take action when assets and touch points are off-brand. You’ll be the driving force in big creative projects, in cooperation with campaign and marketing managers. For example, develop and enforce CVI and brand guidelines, creative concepts for campaigns, and review of POS materials. We’re looking for someone who is ready to elevate our brands, enforce high quality in our creative work and create effective internal processes. Responsibilities and duties Elevate our brand presence: We recently completed a CVI project, and next step is to ensure that this is rolled out in the organization and all content updated accordingly: - Update and enforce common CVI for Phase One’s four business units across all channels and output - Develop, update and enforce creative guidelines for the sub-brand Capture One - Create a strong visual strategy for photography choices for Phase One, Capture One and other sub-endorsed brands - Consult and enforce creative copy - Conceptual thinking - The ability to explore and shape creative ideas and align them with strategic brand goals - Review POS material to ensure they hit the mark on both creative and sales support Improve creative processes: - Work alongside marketing to create and interpret briefs and support and enable the best creative result: - Introduce and deliver brand consistency across all brand work and brand touch points within the business. - Provide clear creative guidance and feedback. - Work with Management team to create effective measures, sign off, feedback and de-brief processes. - Work with colleagues to understand effectiveness of work produced by the team and flex and adapt creative processes - Sign off for creative on big campaigns: copy, images, design, video, etc. Enforce best-practice website design: - Consult on UX/UI. Drive and initiate relevant changes with web manager, marketing managers and creative team - Help put finishing touches on our first-class products - Consult on UX/UI for Phase One products Build the team spirit and encourage bold, creative thinking: - Take part in creating and implementing a team atmosphere and encouraging sharing of skills and knowledge. -vSparring partner for creative team, encouraging new, fresh thinking. - Get creative team members on board in times of change. Your qualifications - 5-10 years minimum in a creative role, ideally some years working cross-discipline leading copywriting, creative production, design and UX/UI projects - Excellent visual eye and composition knowledge. You’ll need to enforce best visual practices for the photographers we choose to collaborate with - Robust portfolio with up-to-date projects, a big plus if you have worked with luxury brands - Proven experience driving creative projects with teams, brand or agency side, or a mix of both - Seasoned strategic and conceptual thinker with a keen business sense - Detail oriented yet visionary - By nature, you are a team player and enjoy helping out your stakeholders - Ability to set and uphold priorities, goals and deadlines - Ready to take full ownership of responsibilities and delegate/follow up on relevant tasks - Excellent communication skills – you can get a team on board with ideas and easily communicate the specific details of campaigns to various types of stakeholders - Generating and translating ideas into campaigns or creative processes - You thrive on working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment - You’re full of enthusiasm for new projects, and good at getting others equally enthusiastic - You’re good at communicating in English. We are a very international team and our “office language” is English - Photography industry experience and/or interest in Photography is a big plus We offer Everything we do is premium. If you strive for the same ideals, we can offer a unique, exciting and challenging position in a highly technical and inventive multi-cultural company. You will work among more than 25 dedicated, international colleagues in the marketing department, who will be challenging you on daily basis – note that we also throw amazing parties! You’ll become part of a team that works full steam ahead – no time to get bored and always new, exciting projects just around the corner.