We’re on the hunt for Mid-Senior Art Directors who are hungry to make magic and bring their X-factor to the Extraordinary home of FCB.
As an art director at FCB, you need to be a talented, ambitious, skillful visual creative who thinks in content and pictures. You are a born storyteller who loves ideas, conceptual thinking, all forms of visual art, typography, layout, and winning awards. Curiosity and a desire to keep learning are key. A collaborative creative with your finger on the pulse of culture and an endless stream of well-told, impactful ideas that are in tune with cultural trends.
- Create award-winning work.
- Help solve business problems through conceptual thinking and solutions.
- Develop modern, social, and content-first creative executions.
- Provide design and art direction in the development of broad and evolving platforms.
- Effectively work on several campaigns at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines
- Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and new business development.
- Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and new business development.
- Contribute concepts/ideas to new business pitches, pro-bono and in-house projects.
- Keep abreast of current marketing and consumer trends on all platforms.
- Keep up-to-date with all relevant Adobe and other industry-standard software; layout, illustration, editing, and presentation.
- Have a keen interest and awareness of the latest digital, social and typographic layout trends.
- Deliver growth on accounts by pioneering new ideas that anticipate the client’s future creative needs.
- Understand format optimisation for print and digital mediums.
- Provide quality assurance of creative deliverables.
- Create compelling presentation decks.
- Act as an ambassador of FCB and FCB brands
- Share knowledge from formalised training and industry events with the team
- Mentor team members to instill confidence, ensure excellence, and encourage progression.
- Maintain good relationships with the broader internal team.
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand client goals, strategy, and feedback.
- Be at ease presenting internally and to clients while engaging them.
- Forge relationships with clients.
- Assist in the selection of production houses, directors, animators, voice-over talent, sound engineers, musicians, etc.
- Assist in providing direction on a shoot.
- Understand the post-production process of video content – offline, online, grade animation, and audio.
- Understand social and digital production requirements.
- Undergraduate degree in a field related to advertising.
- 5 – 7 years’ agency experience as an Art Director.
- A strong award-winning portfolio of through-the-line work – with specific examples of work in the digital space.
- Portfolio must demonstrate high creativity, imagination, and curiosity, as well as the ability to think strategically and conceptually.
- Be a creative problem solver.
- Must have great storytelling abilities.
- Must be able to work under pressure and manage workloads effectively.
- Be highly self-motivated and well-organised.
- Must be able to work within strict budges.
- Quick thinking and attention to detail.