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Art Director

Resolute Digital, a Weber Shandwick Company
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/3/2025

Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading marketing and communications agencies, is seeking a creative, passionate and unique thinker to join our Chicago office as an Art Director. You’ll join a growing and innovative team of art directors, designers and writers, working primarily with a global consumer electronics client.

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

We are looking for someone with the right combination of social platform knowledge, conceptual approach, self-motivation, and artistic skills necessary to develop and execute impactful campaign content.

A passion for typography and design, the ability to visually convey your ideas through beautiful comps, and an appreciation for brand consistency must be in your DNA.

You will also be asked to think ‘earned first,’ in other words, develop ideas that are designed to travel organically through media and get people talking.

You’ll have the chance to work closely with the brightest minds across the North American Weber Shandwick network, solving provocative client challenges as you develop in your creative career.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop refined, production-heavy concepts and executions with a focus on social and digital media. Use experience in social media to incorporate creative / design / layout best practices for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn, YouTube and others.
  • Develop strong video, print and digital design for a wide range of assignments, including branding, layout, storyboarding, mockups, infographics, presentations, print collateral and signage.
  • Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
  • Be extremely comfortable creating iterative digital executions, such as resizes of campaign assets for various channels.
  • From concept to execution, bring an enthusiasm for solving design and marketing challenges throughout the life of a project, and amid stakeholder revisions.
  • Display an understanding of digital and interactive design principles.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
  • Present your work in internal meetings.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 2 years of art direction and / or design experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing / content or public relations).
  • Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software such as Keynote and PowerPoint.
  • Ongoing drive to understand emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
  • Basic or advanced knowledge in After Effects is preferred but not mandatory.
  • Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced).
  • ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Education in advertising design and conceptual thinking is preferred.
  • Bonus skills : illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, etc. Any artistic passion points are always a plus.
  • Knowledge of or strong interest in consumer electronics a plus.
  • NOTE : If you are selected for an interview, please come prepared to discuss and showcase your art direction portfolio and walk through your conceptual / strategic creative approach to assignments (show us how your brain works).

    The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including :

  • Medical
  • Vision
  • 401k (with employer match)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Paid Employee Family Leave
  • Family Building Benefit
  • Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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