Art Director -Senior Analyst

Overview

About Role

The Senior Art Director participates in developing and creating concepts and visual ideas for all forms of communication, advertising, and promotional materials. He/she translates established creative direction into conceptual ideas. He/she collaborates with project teams to plan, analyze, organize, and execute assigned projects, designing necessary layouts to meet creative objectives. The Junior Art Director is directly responsible for developing art direction that aligns with the overall creative vision of the project from start to completion.

Location: Bangalore/ Hyderabad/Chennai

www.annalect.com/in

About Us

We are an integral part of Annalect Global and Omnicom Group, one of the largest media and advertising agency holding companies in the world. Omnicom’s branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations, and other specialty communications services. Our agency brands are consistently recognized as being among the world’s creative best.

Annalect India plays a key role for our group companies by providing stellar products and services in areas of Creative Services, Technology, Marketing Science (data & analytics), Market Research, Business Support Services, Media Services, Consulting & Advisory Services. We are growing rapidly and looking for talented professionals like you to be part of this journey. Let us build this, together!

Responsibilities

• Creates innovative and conceptual design solutions for advertising or promotional campaigns, websites, email, direct mail, sales or company brochures, environmental graphics, special event or tradeshow materials, newsletters and collateral material
• Collaborates with art directors, copywriters, and competency partners to uphold creative standards and brand image in the execution of all projects
• Regularly attends and participates in kickoffs and team meetings
• Meets with the group creative director, lead art director, along with the writer, to discuss concepts and creative strategy, ensuring that they deliver against the objectives
• Synthesizes key project information and applies the resulting knowledge in developing effective and imaginative layouts that support the project’s objectives
• Presents layouts of concepts to Client Service team for discussion and approval, compellingly and with an authoritative manner
• Supports creative concepts by providing visual reference as requested
• Executes creative in multiple mediums appropriate to the client’s needs
• Designs impactful and engaging layouts, working within the brand’s standards and meeting the specifications of the creative brief
• Organizes personal work time effectively and works with project manager, ensuring all team members have the necessary time to review copy decks and proofs
• Contributes to building a positive agency culture, building positive working relationships with internal team, other departments, and clients
• Utilizes excellent design and art direction abilities to consistently develop and execute strategically sound and portfolio-worthy work
• Shows grasp of subject matter and technical proficiency in assigned medium
• Ensures deliverables integrate with all other tactics within a campaign
• Keeps group creative director, Creative teammates, and project manager up to date on project status
• Develops presentation and negotiation skills
• Ensures high-quality deliverables by following established processes
  
  

Qualifications

Required Skills

Experience & Education

• Agency experience (internships, co-ops) is preferred
• Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts or Graphic Design
  
  

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY

• Recognized expertise in print/web/online/interactive design and presentation design, with expert knowledge of the programs required for that discipline
• Solid knowledge of steps required in the creative development process
• Demonstrated ability to effectively solve problems, communicate clearly, and oversee multiple projects simultaneously, both independently, as well as collaboratively in a team environment
• Able to participate in the direction of film, video, and still photo shoots
• Solid brainstorming acumen and ability to lead ideation
• MAC and PC literacy
• Fluent in: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign and Figma. Proficiency in PowerPoint and After Effects is a plus.