Art Director - Design

8 Months ago • 9-15 Years • Graphic Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Art Director - Design with 9+ years experience, leading and inspiring design teams to create key visuals, brand identity, motion graphics, and social media communication design. Must have exceptional project management skills, strong communication skills, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite. Experience in leading and managing creative teams, as well as developing junior creative talent is a plus.
Must have:
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Creative Teams
  • Project Management
  • Design Team
Good to have:
  • Social Media
  • Design Trends
  • Client Relationship
  • Problem-Solving

Job Details

About the job

About The Company

Job Description- Art Director - Design

OktoBuzz Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Mumbai based Digital Marketing Agency working with premier clients like Citi India, Amazon Singapore, Hamleys India, Norton India, Forbes India, CNBC Tv18, Crossword, Hockey World Cup 2018, Simon and Schuster, Satva India and the US, Amazon.in - Westland Publishing (Authors like Amish Tripathi, Chetan Bhagat, Ashwin Sanghi) and more. We build digital go-to-market strategy for clients with focus on brilliant creativity combined with a deep understanding of consumer behavior on social platforms. Parallel to this is expertise in performance driven ad planning with strong pedigree in attribution based campaign planning and execution.

From a Culture point of view we got featured on:

  • Channel News Asia as a part of the GenZ documentary series.
  • BBC news India as a ‘Happier place to work’.
  • Global Happiness Coach- Kyla Mitsunaga’s International book “On Growing”

Know more about us at www.oktobuzz.com

Location: Andheri (E)

Responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire design teams to create a diverse range of design collaterals, such as Key Visuals, brand identity design, motion graphics, Social Media Communication design, etc.
  • Develop strategically sound conceptual work which is aligned with client business goals and bring it to life through great leadership and execution.
  • Ensure that all designs adhere to brand guidelines and exceed defined expectations in terms of quality, turnaround time, visual tonality, and efficiency.
  • Stay informed of design trends, concepts, and the latest innovations in advertising and encourage team members and peers to do the same.
  • Provide creative direction support to the team and coordinate with team members and others to resolve issues.
  • Understand design briefs and share ideas with your peers and juniors.
  • Lead concept discussions with clients, peers, and members from other teams.
  • Provide creative direction support to the team and coordinate with team members and others to resolve issues.
  • Understand design briefs and share ideas with your peers and juniors.
  • Lead concept discussions with clients, peers, and members from other teams.
  • Provide unique and innovative design solutions to clients.
  • Mentor junior team members on best design practices by creating workshops and processes that inculcate a system of learning and upskilling.
  • Prioritize deadlines and manage multiple creative projects simultaneously.

Drive Business Growth

  • Participate in strategic planning process and drive key initiatives that can provide a strategic advantage to Oktobuzz and contribute to brand building
  • Define design strategy for Oktobuzz in collaboration with the leadership team, brainstorm collectively to come up with ideas for branding and promotional campaigns and drive effective implementation of the same
  • Participate in BD meetings with key clients to represent Oktobuzz's creative ideas
  • Finalize the effort estimation done for a client requirement by giving relevant inputs

Building Organizational Culture

  • Act as an ambassador for driving the vision, values and strategy of the business internally and externally
  • Paint an inspiring picture of the future of the business which is visible at all levels
  • Support implementation of HR engagement initiatives to align employees to Oktobuzz vision and values

Delivery Excellence

  • Design the desired communication strategy for driving client growth
  • Work on identifying proactive growth plans for existing clients and provide timely inputs to the design team in formulating creative strategies for the client
  • Provide guidance to the team in developing an impactful design
  • Review the digital communication journey of the client and recommend modification and changes wherever required
  • Oversee the creation of design assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Review and approve all of the organization’s or client’s creative output /visuals and ensure consistency with Oktobuzz brand image
  • Conduct periodic team reviews to review progress on client deliverables and ensure quality output that best serves client needs
  • Collaborate with respective teams to optimize campaigns so as to deliver higher value to the clients
  • Monitor the KPIs/PPIs defined for the "Design" team
  • Identify the outliers or major deviations from the target, both negative and positive deviations and guide the team to perform root-causes of these deviations
  • Ensure necessary corrective and preventive action is taken to minimize negative outliers / target misses.

Building Organizational Capabilities (people, Process, Technology)

  • Drive people capability improvement initiatives to continuously enhance people capability through learning (incl. mentoring) and development initiatives
  • Contribute in building knowledge assets and promote knowledge-sharing initiatives
  • Oversee implementation of technological interventions with frequent reviews
  • Review current processes, identify scope for improvement and make changes in current process or develop new process for improving overall efficiency of the department

Risk And Governance

  • Periodically review effective implementation of controls across the 'design' team
  • Ensure adherence to organizational policies and look-see that the team is accountable for the same.

People Management

  • Be actively involved in hiring as well as in maintaining the morale, performance and engagement levels within the team
  • Set performance expectations, review team performance and provide constructive feedback
  • Identify learning needs of the team and provide a learning environment through training, assignments, knowledge-sharing sessions, etc. Mentor the team to be successful in their current role and meet their career aspirations
  • Differentiate performance and reward high performers, thereby building high performance work culture
  • Support implementation of employee effectiveness initiative such as wellness programs, quality of life, and organizational effectiveness interventions across the teams

Work Experience

9+ years of experience

Skills Required

  • A creative and innovative mindset
  • Exceptional project and team management skills
  • Strict adherence to deadlines
  • Extraordinary attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite
  • Efficient time management skills
  • Creative problem-solving attitude
  • Experience in leading and managing creative teams, as well as developing junior creative talent
  • Knowledge of social media and other channels

Qualification

Graduate in any stream

Desired Skills and Experience

Strategic Thinking, Problem-Solving Skills, Project Management Skills, Client Relationship Management, Creative Vision

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