Art Director
As an art director, you are an experienced creative champion who leads and influences innovative thinking and strategic visions that help our clients solve their most complex business challenges with unique solutions. You’ll look at every creative task as an experience, always pushing for a useful, memorable and innovative outcome. You’ll advance the work by drawing on vast experience and knowledge, settling for nothing less than exceptional.
You can expect to engage in a diverse portfolio of client projects across a wide range of services and campaigns while showcasing offerings, promoting innovation and fostering exceptional client relationships. You’ll work alongside internal clients and teams to drive creative and conceptual storytelling methods and influence the development of creative briefs, storyboards and layouts that effectively communicate design ideas and advance business objectives. You’ll initiate and lead creative ideation sessions and be hands-on empowering teams in developing award-winning deliverables.

To qualify for the role, you must have
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or related discipline
• Creative digital portfolio demonstrating outstanding conceptual thinking and design skills
• Eight years of related art direction and design experience
• Experience working in a fast paced, matrixed agency or in-house team environment to develop a range of creative initiatives
• Innovative mindset with current knowledge of digital design trends
• Ability to skillfully liaison between groups of people to bring positive solutions that meet business objectives
• Ability to drive development of creative briefs/storyboards and persuade clients to follow your design direction
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; proficiency in prototyping, Microsoft Office and Teams
• Experience in successfully mentoring and coaching creatives in developing conceptual skills, including critiquing design projects and providing constructive feedback in a virtual environment
• Superb communication skills,1` active listening and diplomacy when working with internal team members and business partners
• Advanced problem-solving skills to identify, resolve and overcome challenges
• Experience working and mentoring in a virtual environment

Skills and attributes for success
• Ability to proactively foster exceptional client relationships to build trust and collaboration that leads to the co-development of new opportunities
• Sound business acumen to fully comprehend stakeholders’ strategic vision and influence the development of the creative brief, which drives the story
• Ability to initiate and successfully lead creative ideation sessions inspiring new design perspectives
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead by example
• Ability to lead and drive innovation and creativity from diverse project teams and colleagues across the country
Experience/Required Skills: • Advanced knowledge of with graphics software tools, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.• Proficiency in firm-standard load set including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and equipment required of the position • Defines standards and leading practices, and shares both within CSG and across the firm in relation to state-of-the-art techniques, equipment and advancements within the design community• Influences a client to choose an effective design and deliverable solution within budget requirements• Demonstrates advanced knowledge for troubleshooting technical issues in graphic files for prepress and printing: packaging linked graphics and necessary fonts and creating color separations• Knowledge resource for troubleshooting technical issues in electronic files for web and on-screen viewing — graphics linking, file size and venue execution• Acts as continuous solutions–improvement liaison between client-serving staff and CSG• Understands business and communications, identifies issues and breaks them down into manageable parts• Evaluates conflicting requirements of multiple customers; maintains work flow within compressed time frames; remains open to challenge and reappraisal • Addresses problems, makes decisions in area of competence and contributes to decision-making• Makes considered, measured judgments regarding well-defined problems• Thinks strategically to relate design work to the customer’s business needs • Approximately 8-10 years of related design experience
Education: Bachelors degree in Graphic Design or related discipline