Senior Art Director

• Help set the creative direction for the brands you work on, concepting ambitious ideas, exploring new technologies, and driving work through to outstanding final outputs across channels and touchpoints
• Play a critical role in shaping big ideas, defining brand platforms, and bringing them to life through campaigns, activations, and experiences
• Lead creative thinking from first spark to final execution, pushing for originality, relevance, and craft at every stage

• Lead and deliver art direction across a wide range of brand communications, including brand platforms, integrated campaigns, activations, content, digital experiences, and film
• Generate strong conceptual ideas that are rooted in strategy, culturally relevant, and executed with exceptional craft
• Push for innovation—exploring new technologies, AI-enabled tools, and emerging creative approaches to elevate both ideas and execution
• Create original, persuasive, and conceptually compelling work that performs across channels and scales globally
• Play a key role in defining the creative expression of brands, ensuring consistency, clarity, and impact across all outputs
• Collaborate closely with strategists, designers, technologists, producers, and clients to shape and deliver world-class work
• Challenge briefs, ask the right questions, and help define the problem before solving it
• Lead by example, raising the creative bar and inspiring others to think bigger and craft better
• Drive projects with confidence, mentoring junior team members and supporting their creative development
• Be accountable for the quality and delivery of all creative outputs, ensuring they meet AKQA’s standards for excellence
• A compelling portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, brand-led campaigns, and exceptional craft
• Proven experience working across brand platforms, integrated campaigns, and activation-led ideas
• A passion for making ideas tangible through storytelling, visuals, motion, experience, and detail
• Curiosity and openness towards AI, emerging technology, and new creative tools, with a desire to experiment and evolve your practice
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate ideas visually and verbally
• A broad cultural awareness and a natural interest in performance, movement, and contemporary culture
• A drive to push boundaries and create work that stands out in the world
• Collaborative by nature, with experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and directly with clients
• Confident in leading creative workstreams and supporting team growth
• Highly proficient in industry-standard creative tools

Appreciated supplementary skills include photography, motion, 3D, digital experiences, or emerging interactive formats