Art Director

Agency:

OCX

Job Function:

Creative

Job Subfunction:

Art Direction

Job Description:

Art Director
Amazon General
Location: Los Angeles
Department: Creative / Design
Experience Level: Mid-Level (3–5 Years)

Job Description
We are seeking a create, hands-on Art Director who bridges strong conceptual thinking with systematic design execution. You will own visual campaign tracks from initial concepting through final production rollout, balancing creative development with hands-on design execution.
You will be building primary campaign creative content, style guides, design systems, and creative frameworks that scale across global teams and locales.

Working side-by-side with copywriters, project managers, program managers, and production teams, you will steer high-volume digital campaigns, digital experiences, and brand assets. You will also roll up your sleeves to handle complex file builds and hands-on production design, ensuring creative is executed accurately and efficiently. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced agency environment, understands the nuance of designing for a complex digital ecosystem, and knows how to make digital experiences feel polished, cohesive, and seamless.

You have an exceptional eye for sourcing or generating imagery that communicates products, technology, and customer experiences, a talent for seamless compositing and image manipulation, and a deep understanding of how to translate creative systems and visual toolkits across channels and formats while maintaining design integrity and brand consistency.

Key Responsibilities
• Develop cohesive, multi-channel creative concepts that transition seamlessly from a user's mobile screen to physical Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) media and dynamic digital displays.
• Lead the visual direction for high-volume paid social, dynamic display networks, e-commerce environments, digital experiences, and other channels across a range of audiences and business objectives.
• Create compelling narrative moments using premium image compositing, advanced photo manipulation, exceptional typography and precise layout design, ensuring strict adherence to global brand guidelines.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of style guides, flexible templates, and visual toolkits, ensuring all creative outputs preserve design integrity, maintain brand consistency, and translate cleanly across various formats.
• Present conceptual thinking, image curation, and visual treatments directly to client brand managers to clearly communicate and support your design choices.
• Leverage generative AI tools to create and alter high-fidelity creative assets, seamlessly blending AI outputs with traditional composition techniques to accelerate workflow.

Basic Qualifications
• 3 to 5 years of experience as an Art Director, Senior Designer, or Visual Designer in a fast-paced creative agency or high-output in-house creative team.
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or equivalent work experience.
• Portfolio showcasing strong creative concepts, exceptional typography, strong design sensibility, polished visual craft, structured design systems, and digital experiences that communicate products, technology, or services across multiple channels.
• Exceptionally organized with strong communication skills and the ability to manage multiple fast-moving design deliverables.
• Proven experience designing for high-traffic digital experiences, platforms, storefronts, products, or services.
• Advanced expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with hands-on experience applying Generative AI visual tools to concepting and asset production.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience managing high volume and tight deadlines across complex, fast-moving digital initiatives.
• Experience working with technology, retail, consumer, or enterprise brands.
• Experience working with large client asset libraries and maximizing the potential of existing brand photography and visual assets.
• Strong understanding of adapting creative systems and style guides across channels, formats, and audiences.
• Experience with motion, animation, or dynamic digital assets.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where rapid iteration and alignment to global brand guidelines are the norm.

$60,000 - $75,000

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