Senior Art Director

CGS seeks a strategically creative Senior Art Director to join its global Marketing team in New York City. This is a phenomenal opportunity for a growth minded designer to work directly with the CMO on branding projects and to help scale the capabilities of the creative team that operates as a shared service three distinctive businesses in fashion supply chain software, business process outsourcing, and enterprise learning.

This is a roll-up your sleeves role with hands-on design including website assets, advertising, marketing collateral, video, and events. You should be digitally savvy and well-versed in design for websites and marketing automation systems like Marketo. You should also have excellent organizational and time management skills and bring a systems mindset to the application of newly developing brand guidelines for our businesses. This is a “work on the engine while in-flight" role. You’ll be responsible for delivering business driving creative assets in the immediate term while helping to redefine our creative strategy for the long term.

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic team at a global organization with a marquee client list. This is a chance to be a creative superhero – are you up for it?

Key responsibilities:

• Design and produce creative assets for digital, print, video, motion graphics, events, and web.
• Drive the visual expression of brand campaigns across all platforms and business units.
• Collaborate with marketers, content writers, and product teams to create compelling assets for Marketo campaigns, websites, paid ads, social, and events.
• Build out scalable creative systems and design libraries aligned with new and existing brand guidelines.
• Lead creative strategy, storytelling, and visual development from concept to execution.
• Work within and continuously improve brand identity systems for consistency and scalability.
• Oversee or collaborate on video shoots, motion graphics, storyboarding, and editing.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You’re a designer by craft but a creative strategist at heart. You’re curious… and passionate about understanding CGS’ various businesses, their distinctive markets, and customer profiles. You thrive on applying this knowledge into creative solutions that are fit-for-market and distinctive from the competition.
• You’re committed to the profession of visual communication and passionate about learning and adopting new technologies while making creative operations more efficient.
• You have experience building and/or rolling out new brands and a strong desire to do award-winning work.
• You’re articulate and defend strategic thinking, creative direction, and user experience to executive-level stakeholders.
• You balance strategic brand development with client business objectives.
• You’re detail oriented and committed to providing quality assurance for all creative deliverables. You don’t just design; you read or otherwise digest everything you create and provide feedback to your collaborators in Product Marketing, Brand & Creative, and Demand Generation when needed.
• You have a proven aptitude for quick creative thinking, acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines, and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• You are passionate about user experience (UX) and can educate others on the design choices that support positive UX.
• You have managed other creatives or creative agencies, lead with inspiration and persuasion, and love building teams.
• You are collaborative and enjoy partnering with others evolve our brands, drive innovation and creativity, and ensure compliance across the global organization.
• You foster passion, hunger, and curiosity to produce better work within a team, including mentoring and coaching team members through project development and creative check-ins.
• You strive to understand internal clients’ needs and have the ability to develop, present, and sell creative concepts to these partners. Skilled at reviews and approvals of final files before launch.
• You independently take action and demonstrate initiative to define and solve complex issues that arise within the course of a project.
• Ability to multi-task, you are highly adaptable and prioritize according to deadlines, all with a high attention to detail.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Visual Arts, Communications, or Social Sciences
• 10 years working in creative services. Experience working in a fast-paced agency or in-house environment; demonstrated ability to communicate well with clients and teammates.
• Expert graphic designer, using Adobe Creative Suite specifically Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Expert in video & motion graphics designer, using tools like Adobe Premiere Pro; Adobe After Effects; and Canva Video Editor.
• Proficient in using AI for creativity with tools like Adobe Generative AI; Adobe Premier Pro AI; Runway; MidJourney; DALL·E; Synthesia (for creation of studio-quality videos with AI avatars for narration);
• UI/UX design: Proficient with tools like Figma and Sketch for UI/UX design
• Proficient in Microsoft office; expert in PowerPoint.
• Basic coding knowledge like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.