Art Director

1 Month ago • 2-2 Years • Art • $135,000 PA - $160,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Art Director is responsible for the conceptual development and execution of creative deliverables, leading multidisciplinary teams to bring email marketing campaigns to life. Responsibilities include overseeing visual design, layout, copy, and creative strategy for email marketing campaigns to align with client brand goals. This role involves leading a team of Designers, Copywriters, and Strategists, balancing creative thinking with interpersonal skills to justify concepts to clients and project teams. The Art Director will champion creative direction and mentor junior staff, ensuring consistency in design elements across all communications.
Must have:
  • 2+ years' experience as Art Director
  • Experience leading Email projects
  • Experience leading creative teams
  • Strong communication skills
  • Creative thinking and attention to detail
  • Proficiency in design tools (Adobe CS, Sketch, Principle)
Good to have:
  • Experience in agency or client-side environment
  • Experience with landing pages and marketing/advertising
  • Experience with UX, Copywriters, and marketing teams
  • Experience with strategic brainstorming and campaign development
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
Perks:
  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Summer Fridays
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board
  • Internal learning and development programs

Job Details

The Art Director is responsible for conceptual development and the execution of creative deliverables. You're a natural collaborator and enjoy leading multidisciplinary teams to bring email marketing campaigns to life. You will oversee the visual design, layout, copy, and creative strategy for email marketing campaigns and other deliverables to ensure they align with our client's brand goals.

The Art Director will lead a team of Designers, Copywriters and Strategists. Balancing creative thinking with interpersonal skills, you will demonstrate an ability to justify concepts to both the client and the project team. You’re a dynamic leader who can champion creative direction with your team and be an inspiring mentor to junior staff.


You Will: 

  • Develop visually appealing email templates that align with brand guidelines
  • Ensure consistency in colours, fonts, imagery, and overall design across all email communications
  • Develop concepts, communicate ideas, and design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives in a highly collaborative environment
  • Collaborate with UX, Copywriters, Designers, and marketing teams to create engaging campaigns 
  • Balance strategic development with client business objectives
  • Lead Copywriters and Designers to ensure copy tone and style are consistent with visual tone and style
  • Participate in strategic brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development, and creative execution
  • Direct & delegate to core creative services disciplines (Design, Copywriting, UX)
  • Provide quality assurance of all creative deliverables
  • Mentor and coach team members through project development and performance management
  • Build and maintain rapport with clients, partner agencies and vendors
  • Contribute to the innovative development of the creative department

You Have: 

  • 2+ years’ experience as an Art Director in an agency or client-side environment—including experience with emails, landing pages, and marketing/advertising
  • 2+ years' experience leading Email projects
  • Experience leading a team of Designers, Copywriters, UX, Strategists to creative excellence
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to think creatively and justify concepts to clients and team members
  • Experience with strategic brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development and creative execution
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
  • Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines
  • Solid working knowledge of the latest design tools including Adobe CS, Sketch, Principle

What We Offer:

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Summer Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs


Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.

Salary Range

$135,000 - $160,000 USD

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

If U.S. based: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams#avoid
If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

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About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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