Art Director

Provide leadership for the brands you work on, create innovative concepts and push the idea through to the final outputs

• Possess not just exceptional art direction skills, but the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking as well
• Create and manage original, persuasive and conceptually compelling work for campaigns, content and experiences, across a variety of clients
• Leads by example to inspire colleagues to originate pioneering ideas that deliver successful solutions
• Listen to and respond to briefs, and question where there are gaps
• Collaborate with the client and with various teams within AKQA
• Embrace challenges and inspire new ways of thinking
• Responsible for driving projects with some supervision, along with and mentoring junior members of the team
• Be accountable for the project design deliverables and manage the quality of all design deliverables to ensure they meet AKQA standards for creative excellence
• You have a compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality art direction and concepting across a variety of projects
• Proven creative success working in collaborative, multi-functional teams
• Strong information presentation skills, visual and written
• You have a breadth of cultural reference points
• You have a drive to break boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind in the world
• You are passionate, driven and obsessed about your craft and stay on top of best practice in your field
• Experience in leading a team and working directly with clients is advantageous
• A degree in Design, Interaction Design, Visual Studies or other design-related field preferred
• Extensive experience using the most common software
• Experience of nurturing client relationships

• Experience in leading a team and working directly with clients is advantageous
• A degree in Design, Interaction Design, Visual Studies or other design-related field preferred