New Hartford, NY

Senior Art Director

Description

You are a creative force who will craft and lead cross-channel projects every day that blow away our clients. Online advertising, UI/UX initiatives, print, and broadcast — they’re all in play, and you want the ball.

About the Role

As a Senior Art Director at TRAINOR, you will effectively lead, mentor, manage, and collaborate with our digital creation and production team to ensure designs are consistent and cohesive throughout all print and digital materials.

  • Oversee both TRAINOR and client brand guidelines, evolving and innovating as needed
  • Responsible for agency technology and tool vetting
  • Responsible for agency creation & production team growth
  • Management of all project team member assignments and milestones to execute client strategies on time and within budget
  • Direct and oversee video shoots and photoshoots in collaboration with the team as needed
  • Responsible for groundbreaking campaign/project conceptualization, planning, and execution
  • Execute design comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables for brand marks, print materials, presentations, proposals, digital (websites, microsites, landing pages), and social
  • Communicate with clients, presenting work confidently to strengthen their brand
  • Manage deadlines for multiple projects with many clients at once
  • Collaborate and partner with copywriters to ensure the copy and the visuals are in perfect synch to make the concept as powerful, vivid, and compelling as possible
  • Owning the client’s brand standards and implementing them for all their owned, earned, and paid channels

Who You Are

You love taking a concept and turning it into an artistic vision. A fresh-thinking pro who can communicate and justify fantastic concepts simply, you inspire everyone in the room to create. You bring each project from brief to final build and direct other team players to help get it all done.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of industry experience in a well-established, creative role
  • A robust portfolio that shows your talent in both online and traditional channels
  • Masterful in Adobe Creative Suite
  • Enthusiasm in spotting, learning, and mastering new technology to transcend standards
  • Energy and a sense of humor (and urgency)

Who We Are

TRAINOR is a digitally-driven brand management collaborative that is passionate about delivering performance and results. We are storytellers at heart and are always asking ourselves, what can we do better? How can we disrupt the mold?

We have clients all over the world and love to delight them and embrace all types of new technology and techniques. In fact, if our current best practices are insufficient, we create new ones! We also value your voice and — when well-timed and executed — a good sense of humor.