Art Director
Are you a professional graphic designer with a strong book? Love what you do? Unleaded is looking for an elite creative talent to join its Houston-based team as an Art Director. The successful candidate will be a hands-on expert in visual design and will work closely with a team of designers, marketing, copywriters, developers and others to elevate client brands and marketing programs. As an individual contributor you will be responsible for bringing design solutions to life which adhere to marketing strategies and business goals. Creative problem-solving skills, pixel perfect precision, an appreciation for creative strategy and mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite are a must.
Our clients are doing big things, like optimizing global supply chains and working to help us all avoid the worst effects of climate change. One of the most important things we provide are the ideas that help them meet these objectives.
Responsibilities
- Use your strong eye for aesthetics and visual details to ensure a quality final product
- Learn and understand each client’s business, market and target audiences
- Create a variety of brand driven channel executions for our clients
- Collaborate on marketing campaign development
- Execute development of sales and marketing assets aligned with client objectives
- Collaborate, support and mentor other designers, providing feedback and guidance on design execution
- Help with planning and art direction of photo and video shoots to ensure that the assets are on target with the needed assets, in alignment with the concept and in brand for the client.
Qualifications
- 10+ years' experience in graphic design and/or art direction
- Strong portfolio of work
- Expert level of proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- High level of emotional intelligence
- Experience with concept development and brainstorming (must be able to talk through your thought process with examples or sketches)
- Solid communication skills: able to persuade and articulate the value of your ideas and how they support client objectives/strategy
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, advertising, communication, or other visual arts discipline
About Unleaded
For more than 20 years, we have developed market insights, improved business processes, unraveled complex market landscapes, created award-winning multi-channel marketing and advertising campaigns, and assimilated into 100+ companies. Our success is predicated on helping clients find new growth opportunities and creating the marketing programs that capitalize on them. But we can’t do it without extraordinary teammates. Our culture centers around an entrepreneurial and enterprising spirit–we empower our people to bring their highest value and most audacious ideas to work with them every day. We encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and proactive team players. We are all students and we are all teachers. As such, we are invested in the growth and development of everyone who comes through our doors, so that each of us can make the greatest impact on the world we share.
