Senior Art Director Designer

Job Description

Senior Art Director Designer

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media – both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

A Hybrid working model

Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 60% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.

Makerhouse is a bespoke, multi-disciplinary, creative production house. We’re one-part strategic production operations with best-in-class institutional expertise. And one-part always-on content studio with brand design-centric makers and integrated client brand governance. Our specialist centers of excellence have a globally connected footprint with locally integrated agency + client creative partnerships. As well as expanded partnerships across WPP to amplify our offering when needed.

The Role

We are looking for a passionate and talented Senior Art Director & Designer to join the Makerhouse Europe Creative team. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on creative who wants to become part of an enthusiastic team to work across a vast array of multi-channels. We are keen to meet candidates who can inspire with creative ideas and excellence.

This role will benefit from experience in CGI, product packaging, brand book / toolkits, Social and storytelling. The brand is a new one for Makerhouse, British American Tobacco (BAT), who are an existing client of our partners VML & Hogarth. The core focus of the brand is FMCG products, but the audience, through social channels and media, is universal, and there is a clear focus on delivering stories that resonate with a range of audience cultures.

The Creative candidate will be responsible for designing & art directing product toolkits, creative concepting, and other art direction and design solutions. From initial concepts and development of the idea, working closely with other creative and operational specialists through to final implementation for all media channels.

The Midweight Art Director & Designer will create, craft, nurture concepts and ideas which push the media channels we use and go beyond a simple 30 second ad, we are after individuals who embrace new channels or re-invent old ones, someone who can take a loose brief and surprise us with multiple options of how this idea could be executed, making it newsworthy or sharable in social to generate earned media. They are strategic thinkers, visual problem solvers, able to craft and design (NOT finished to artwork level), and able to craft a headline or compose their thoughts into a paragraph. As cross-functional collaborator, you will partner with other Creatives, Producers and Project Managers to bring ideas to life. Your ideas will need to inform, persuade, stimulate, attract attention, and ultimately engage – driving social conversation and shareability.

Major Responsibilities:

• Strength in conceptual and creative ideation – bringing ideas to life in traditional and non-traditional channels
• Exercise imagination, craft skills and creativity of campaign thinking – beyond a 30” TV ad
• Proactively identify opportunities for creative excellence
• Build upon the creativity we have in the Makerhouse team, pushing the art direction and design medium further
• Use design and art direction to craft beautiful stories to ensure engagement, clarity of message and brand consistency across every media channel
• Work independently or collaborate with others (local and remotely) as part of a team, through the development and production phases
• Work closely with and take direction from Creative Directors, Executive Creative Directors and/or Clients, to develop and implement exceptional creative solutions in all media
• High energy and passion for understanding new social platforms and trends
• Know and apply industry standards relative to each project
• Accurately estimate and record time spent on projects
  

Knowledge And Skills

• Broad and immaculate conceptual skills
• Positive and optimistic attitude
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Passionate presenter of creative work – able to engage and inspire
• Passion for innovation and ability to handle multiple projects
• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (motion and 3D a bonus)
• Effectively collaborate with others in the creative, design and production process
• Knowledge of the production process in digital, experiential and motion
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not essential with the right experience
• Experience in Multi-disciplinary Creative Agency
• Have physical and mental requirements to meet the above listed job responsibilities
  

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Senior Art Director Designer

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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