What are the responsibilities and job description for the Art Director position at AJ Capital Partners?
Department: Creative and Brand Strategy
Reports to: Chief Brand Officer
Location: Nashville, TN
This role will be performed onsite in the Nashville office.
*** DIGITAL PORTFOLIO REQUIRED. UPLOAD PORTFOLIO AS 'ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT’ ***
Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners (“AJCP”) is seeking a Art Director to lead graphic design projects and support its rapid growth across various investment platforms focused on the hospitality, mixed-use, and single-family rental sectors.
ABOUT AJCP
Adventurous Journeys ("AJCP") Capital Partners is a vertically integrated real estate investment manager founded in 2008. The firm repositions real estate to build timeless, scalable businesses and brand platforms. We deliver returns on transformative real estate by applying placemaking, inspired design, and hospitality principles to spaces overlooked or undervalued by traditional investment firms. The firm’s current portfolio includes $5.3 billion of assets across 100 properties and 50 geographic markets. With a mission to humanize hospitality through handcrafted projects made by people for people, AJCP delivers spaces that evoke emotional connections and become backdrops for enriching life experiences. Our headquarters are in Nashville, with offices in Chicago, London, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. For more information on AJCP, please visit www.ajcpt.com.
ABOUT THE ROLE
AJ’s creative Brand Strategy team is responsible for shaping, developing, and managing branded investment platforms across the AJ portfolio. We are seeking a creative, detail-oriented Art Director to join our in-house Art Department. The Art Director is an experienced manager who can guide a team of designers throughout the full creative process, from strategic brainstorming to the final design execution across several brand platforms.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Support AJCP Leadership to create campaigns to support all branded platforms and verticals, including Partnerships, Content, Digital Marketing, and PR
- Develop creative concepts and deliverables that directly support growing general brand awareness and solve specific property needs for all branded platforms
- Direct and organize photoshoots, coordinating with photographers, stylists & producers to feature content including interiors, architecture, lifestyle imagery, food & drink and product
- Create new concepts to support the ongoing development and growth of brand platforms
- Effectively manage the Graphic Design team’s workloads, including managing priorities and deadlines
- Supervise and mentor the Graphic Design team to help further develop the skills needed for career advancement
- Work closely with the Brand Marketing team to ensure awareness campaigns and initiatives achieve brand objectives and KPIs
- Continue to maintain and elevate all brand platforms
WHO YOU ARE
AJCP seeks a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced but disciplined entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive graphic design experience. This role also requires the following capabilities:
- Genuinely creative and overflowing with new ideas
- Passionate about graphic design with a keen eye for photography, design, and typography
- Effective communicator and phenomenal collaborator
- Diplomatic, with great interpersonal skills & enthusiasm
- A natural leader who is comfortable with a high degree of ownership and accountability
- Proactive, organized, and solutions obsessed. You are a self-starter and critical thinker who constantly identifies opportunities for creative problem-solving and efficiently troubleshoots problems without compromising design and brand standards
- Agile multitasker who prioritizes their time efficiently, and can communicate deadlines and manage expectations to ensure the timely completion of tasks
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- BFA in Graphic Design or equivalent relevant experience
- A minimum of 3 years of art direction experience within a brand and 5 years within the graphic design field
- Understanding and experience with photography and photoshoot processes
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite
- Note: Applications without a digital portfolio will not be considered
Equal Employment Opportunity:
AJCP is an equal employment opportunity employer and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, reproductive health decision-making, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. AJCP is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy in regard to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay, other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.
