The Center Brands Seeks an Art Director

The Center Brands

Seeks an Art Director

Los Angeles, CA

The Center Brands (MAKE Beauty, Saltair, Phlur, Prequel) are looking to add a highly engaging, and strategic, Art Director, to join our expanding team, and support our Creative Director, in the creative direction, content ideation, and creation process.

This role is responsible for the ideation and execution of overall creative direction and strategy of our prestige brands across all digital platforms, retailers and consumer touch points, in close partnership with the Creative Director, and ensuring the brands maintain cohesive creative and tone of voice that reflect the mission and ethos.

This role requires a strong creative thinker, who can shift from ideation to design, as needed, to bring to life interesting stories for our audience across diverse communication channels including social, digital, retail, OOH and more. Collaborating closely with the Creative Director and Brand Marketing team, you will act as a thought leader in the organization. A strong understanding of the brand and business objectives, and the ability to think strategically and contribute to new ways of engaging our consumer across all digital platforms, e-commerce, social and retail partners.

This is an exciting opportunity in a fast-paced, growth-stage company, with beauty brands centered on innovation and thoughtful creativity.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Thought leader and strategic partner to Creative Director in the development and evolution of brand mission, language, and visuals that support the brands business priorities.

  • Support the creative direction and strategy for the Content and Creative teams, from concept through to execution.

  • Translate business and marketing objectives into ideas that are clear, compelling, visually exciting, engaging and in-keeping with brand expression and standards.

  • Must be able to manage daily workload for self and design team. Meet deadlines and expectations on projects to ensure that the design and marketing deliverables are completed on time.

  • Contribute innovative creative strategies, industry trends and innovations, driving vision and insights to creative ideation, strategy, and production planning.

  • Provide additional senior-level leadership to Creative and Content teams, acting as key support to Creative Director.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Prior graphic design experience required (as well as management of graphics design teams preferred).

  • On-set photography experience with a sensitive eye for art direction, photo/video editing, cropping, and retouching.

  • Experience in video including editing, motion graphics / animation, color direction, etc.

  • Knowledge of social as well as experience working with various online ad design specs and media requirements.

  • Knowledge of best practices for the Web with a particular focus on beauty retail and editorial.

  • Superior communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Strong project management, organizational and planning skills.

  • Ability to brainstorm and develop creative concepts that combine branding and commerce.

  • In-depth knowledge of appropriate usage of the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, Bridge, image optimization for web, and other web authoring / motion graphic tools.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; and two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.


Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions on this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Jorge Del Pinal