Art Director

Required Qualifications

• You have a strong opinion about what looks good and you can defend it clearly without being precious about it
• You have strong design fundamentals. You understand type, hierarchy, color, and layout at a level beyond personal taste
• You understand, respect, and love the customers — you know that your job is to design for them, not design in general.
• You think in systems, not just one-offs. Beautiful individual assets that don’t cohere into a brand aren’t good enough
• You give feedback that makes people’s work better, not just your vision real
• You’re fast. You know the difference between “good enough to move” and “not good enough,” and you move accordingly
• You’ve actually been responsible for a brand’s visual identity before, not just individual executions inside one
• You have a strong opinion about what looks good and you can defend it clearly without being precious about it
• You have strong design fundamentals. You understand type, hierarchy, color, and layout at a level beyond personal taste
• You understand, respect, and love the customers — you know that your job is to design for them, not design in general.
• You think in systems, not just one-offs. Beautiful individual assets that don’t cohere into a brand aren’t good enough
• You give feedback that makes people’s work better, not just your vision real
• You’re fast. You know the difference between “good enough to move” and “not good enough,” and you move accordingly
• You’ve actually been responsible for a brand’s visual identity before, not just individual executions inside one
• At least 4 to 6 years of design or art direction experience, including meaningful time spent in-house at a brand (not only at agencies)
• Experience owning a corporate or consumer brand identity end-to-end
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Figma fluency for collaborative design and handoff
• Strong typography, layout, and photography direction instincts
• A portfolio that demonstrates both conceptual range and executional consistency
• Experience briefing and directing external creative vendors and freelancers
• Comfort working directly with senior leadership on high-stakes work
• At least 4 to 6 years of design or art direction experience, including meaningful time spent in-house at a brand (not only at agencies)
• Experience owning a corporate or consumer brand identity end-to-end
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Figma fluency for collaborative design and handoff
• Strong typography, layout, and photography direction instincts
• A portfolio that demonstrates both conceptual range and executional consistency
• Experience briefing and directing external creative vendors and freelancers
• Comfort working directly with senior leadership on high-stakes work