Art Supervisor

The Art Supervisor is responsible for managing the brand work and overseeing all junior members of the art team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work. He/she will work closely with copywriter(s), project managers, other art directors, developers, information architects and account services to maintain brand consistency and excellence on all jobs. The Art Supervisor will also ensure that all work is on strategy, within budget, and contributes to growing the Client’s business. 

General Responsibilities:

• Execute and direct creative that encompasses all media across print, video, 3D, interactive and social.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high.
• Bring interactive trends to your team’s attention and find ways to employ technology to meet your Client’s business needs.
• Keep abreast of current interactive, mobile, advertising, design, and visual communications. Continuously stay current to marketing trends and unique design styles, imagery, technology and technological advances and introduce these to future team projects where appropriate.
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Client’s business, brand and competitive marketplace(s) and technological advances.
• Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums, printing, digital media, mobile vendors and 3rd party developers.
• Demonstrate ability to design and advocate from the user’s perspective.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print and digital production processes.
• Keep supervisor(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner.
• In person client travel required

Brand Champion:

• Elevate the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed both online and off.
• Provide comprehensive design overview and brand consistency.
• Provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives.
• Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects.
• Present rational for functional decisions within interactive work.
• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed both online and off.
• Manage and oversee the daily work for all brand projects and jobs.
• Provide comprehensive design overview and brand consistency throughout each project and for each assigned account as a whole.
• Consistently provide fresh and unique thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives.
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives for all designated projects.
• Collaborate with other Art Director(s) to establish a visual consistency throughout the brand, both online and off.
• Capable of translating brand to online, mobile and video applications with full integrity.
• Ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects.
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary.

Qualifications:

• College degree in visual communications or equivalent experience
• 5-6 years of digital and print design/advertising experience 
• Advertising and/or print and digital design portfolio or website equivalent 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Thorough understanding of UX with expert-level skill in Adobe XD, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
• Thorough knowledge of Accessibility guidelines and Responsive Web Design 
• Experience concepting and designing for Pharmaceutical Advertising