Senior Art Director, North America

Where :   Must be located in EST- North America

Type : Full time salaried role

Join Us at Social Element! 🌟

Social Element is a global social media agency connecting brands and people socially. Our core purpose is to make better social for brands and social better for society.

Now, we're on the lookout for a Senior Art Direction    to join our Creative and Innovation team. Client Services.  💼

The Opportunity

On a day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the conception and creation of on-trend and highly shareable social content and ideas that drives engagement and connection with the brand's community. Including stills and GIFs, content creation, and also having an experience in motion / animation.

Build Social Brand Guidelines for our clients using their existing brand guidelines and translating them into social-first guidance for our own content creation team, as well as the clients teams - while always looking to improve a brand’s social first-approach in a visual capacity.

Capitalizing on real-time cultural opportunities from our social media management teams by turning them into social-first content for named brands.

Supporting your design recommendations through strong presentation and communication skills.

Maintaining social fluency - understanding social trends and nuances as they emerge, and being always ‘switched on’ to new design and creative ideas for the brands we have at the agency.

Stay current with social platforms trends capabilities and offerings (including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook.)

Save all final content assets onto the Social Element server for easy access for anyone within the agency.

Lead on design for internal and external facing decks, case study decks, pitch decks - in a conceptual, branding and design capacity.

When needed, manage the creation of case study decks and videos, with the support of motion / animation experts / freelancers.

Ensure that DE&I is baked into everything we do and champion this within creativity in the agency, and also within the agency's creative output

Working collaboratively with strategy, PM, creatives & SMM to concept content for brands, while also being the visual lead on look & feel, and design.

About you 👇

You are a Senior Art Director with at least 5 years experience in the advertising and design industry. You sit in the Creative & Innovation Department of Social Element, comfortably fulfilling a role across both Creative and Design : concepting solo and collaboratively, and often taking those concepts into design for client output. You will also help shape our output as a Social Element brand and build our movement to Make Social Better.

You have strong graphic design skills, while also being strong in conception, with a multitude of other skills under your belt to bring to the agency; including product photography, artworking, strong leadership, creative production and campaign conception. You work under the creative leadership of the Creative & Innovation Director.

Craft and attention to detail is important to you, but you can equally dial up or down high level craft or mobile-first low-fi designs depending on the client and campaign. You think outside the box when it comes to concepting, creating and delivering socially-native content and campaigns for a variety of clients and driving engagement with a brand’s community.

You are comfortable ideating and creating for mobile and digital screen, as much as you are designing for print when needed. We might work in social media, but our purpose is to help brands socialize, and that will include activations both URL and IRL. This means also working across concept, art direction and design for new and existing brand campaigns and being able to use a brands guidelines and agency strategy input, to ideate and deliver 360 / full social-first campaigns.

You're an ideas person who is able to collaborate with other departments to create eye-popping, thumb-stopping visuals on behalf of a brand and also for Social Element. Your proactive nature means that you have a lot to bring to the table and are always looking for ways to introduce new concepts and ideas - including self initiated projects and new lines of business.

You will co-report into the Creative & Innovation Director and the VP Of Project Management and work cross-functionally alongside social creatives, project managers, content creators, account directors and social media managers.

Requirements 📙

• You are able to ideate, strategize, design, create content, and visually support and lead the teams from conception to completion - stepping in to wear multiple hats. :

Lead and manage the visual direction of projects, from concept through to completion, ensuring alignment with brand and project goals.

Ideate and strategize creative concepts that resonate with target audiences, blending innovation with practical execution.

Design and create high-quality visual assets for various media ensuring consistency across all channels.

You are comfortable in Adobe Creative Cloud and understand the ins and outs of creative tools to enhance creative outputs including still images, gifs, graphics, and content creation.

An ideas person, able to look at the big picture, but also see the small details and always be solution oriented.

Can work with some levels of ambiguity, while always having your own solutions and ideas to overcome missing informations & issues.

A thorough understanding of the evolving social media landscape, with a continuous thirst to learn more.

A joyful collaborator and solution orientated person with a positive & forward thinking outlook.

Ability to set clear objectives, timelines and deadlines for own work, while also knowing how to be a balanced project lead and know when it’s appropriate to push deadlines in order to avoid the work suffering.

Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications.

Preferred skills in Canva, Capcut and other mobile editing tools when needed.

Optional skills in AI image generation (Firefly), and strong content creation abilities in the form of low-fi (UGC style / staged reality) and high quality product photography.

A strong drive and dedication to contribute to our clients brand, the agency and the work, as if they were your own company.

Brings vast experience of international markets with experience working with brands across North America.

Benefits

Please note these benefits are for US based employees only

Remote / Flexible working (occasional travel)

33 days of holiday (including the bank holidays)

Birthday off

Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)

1 Volunteer day off

Paid Sick time off

Group Insurance Medical plans with generous employer contribution, including one plan that is employer covered

Dental and Vision plans

FSA & HSA Options , with employer contribution to HSA on select plans

401k with employer matching

Employer Paid Long-Term / Short-Term Disability

Enhanced family friendly policies

Career Break : After 1 year's service, can take between 4 weeks and 1 year unpaid leave.

Wellbeing Support

Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

Social Element Behaviors For Success

Be focused and decisive 🔥

Be brave and inspirational 🦸

Be rigorous in our approach 🕵️

Be considered and inclusive 🤗

Be loud and proud 🔊

Our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Commitment

We welcome applications from diverse and under-represented groups regardless of their background.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so even if you feel you don’t fulfil all the requirements, we encourage you to still apply — we’d love to hear from you! 🙂

We value having divergent thinkers who bring various experiences and viewpoints to the table at The Social Element. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply.

We are also able to make reasonable adjustments throughout the full recruitment process so we invite you to identify any additional support that you may require to ensure you are supported throughout the full process.

How To Apply

If you're ready to make your mark with us, upload your resume and a cover letter explaining your professional experience and why you're excited to join our team. Don't forget to include the specified details in your cover letter / video to ensure your application gets processed!

Excited to embark on this journey with us? We can't wait to hear from you! ❤️