Senior Art Director

Role: Art Director

Location: Remote

About the role:

In a highly competitive and saturated marketplace creating visually stunning, impactful, and effective creative work is essential. To help us deliver this we are looking for a strong, inspirational Director renowned for their work across this category – to join us on our journey.

The Art Director will effectively and efficiently oversee and direct conceptual and design projects and will ultimately be responsible for the quality of ideas and the end-to-end design execution of jobs, from brief through to implementation and delivery. The Art Director will have responsibility for overseeing multiple simultaneous live projects.

We are looking for a multi-skilled creative that will direct, inspire, lead and support all levels of design and creative talent across the account, defining and advancing a positive and highly productive design culture for OLIVER+

What you will be doing:

Culture of excellence

• To motivate and influence the creative team to constantly strive for excellence in performance.
• To proactively monitor the quality of design projects being produced and submitted by leading internal review sessions and seeking feedback from both internal and external stakeholders.
• To oversee and manage the timely delivery of all jobs / projects going through the studio, always taking into consideration the clients’ requirements and expectations.
• To investigate, propose and implement innovative ways of delivering design services to maximise efficiency and productivity.
• To actively oversee and manage team meetings, forward scheduling meetings and work review meetings.
• To manage, oversee and coordinate the sharing of knowledge and the facilitation of learning within the team and all other employees to improve business practices, refine processes, aid and promote the development of creative ideas and introduce new services.
• To organise monthly work / successes / learnings / presentations to the wider SMT team to showcase work from the studio/ team managed.

Business Development

Attend client meetings, present work, discuss needs and identify opportunities.

To assign creative leads and develop accounts and teams.

Keep abreast of and drive global creative trends

Workflow

To work actively with the workflow / studio manager in coordinating the effective allocation of design talent, facilitating information from colleagues, business managers and staff. To provide effective support to meet client demands and to cover flexible working, holiday and sick leave requirements in the most economical manner.

Brand Guardianship

To act as brand guardian to ensure all design collateral produced by the design team is faithful to the client’s brand guidelines.

Customer Centricity

To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service from all team members.

People Management & Development

To manage, train and mentor staff and oversee their professional development, offering knowledge, motivation, support and experience as required, including but not limited to their creative and technical skill, to increase productivity, staff retention and enhanced staff morale.

With the assistance of Account Lead, ensure all staff members accurately record timesheets.

As a business we're committed to ensuring everyone on our team is fully trained and confident in using Pencil AI, and other approved AI tools. A wide range of Internal resources are available to make sure our teams stay ahead of the AI curve: training, webinars, newsletters, AI communities etc.

You would be responsible for both you and your teams to be actively AI proficient and keeping up to date by:

• Completing ongoing, structured [IIG] AI training including Pencil.
• Continuously up-skilling using our approved AI tools including Pencil.
• Stay up to date with evolving AI trends through our newsletters, webinars, hackathons, AI communities etc
• Facilitate collaborative knowledge-sharing sessions to foster an open exchange of AI expertise and embrace our culture of Learning.

Required experience

As the senior design practitioner within the Creative team, the Art Director will combine first-class design expertise, creativity and thought leadership with commercial acumen and leadership gravitas.

Our values shape everything we do: 

Be Ambitious to succeed   

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible   

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work   

Be always learning and listening to understand   

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations   

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations   
 

OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.   

OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.'