SBH Fashion is hiring: Agency Art Director- Beauty / CPG in New York

Overview

Job Title: Agency Art Director- Beauty / CPG

Company: SBH Fashion

Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates design leadership in collaborative brainstorms (e.g. bringing meaningful ideas & stimulus, sketches, positive team encouragement, building on others ideas).
• Understand and contribute to the development of a strategic brand positioning: consumer profiles, brand positioning, brand stories, brand architecture, brand character, tone or voice, visual spaces, and ensure strategic intent is met throughout the design process.
• Able to visualize strategic intent (bring information to life in a clear and meaningful way).
• Understand and contribute to the development of brand identity systems and lead brand guideline development.
• Provide inspiration and direction to ensure high quality execution from a team that brings to life a creative brief, co-developed with the Creative Director.
• Review and curate design directions from the team, and make recommendations to the Creative Director.
• Be a category thought leader (stay in the know on category developments, competitive news, trends and opportunities) & share knowledge.
• Lead team critiques in partnership with Creative Director.
• Develop and prepare presentations.
• Independent ownership of specified projects or brands at an initiative level (ask for input and guidance where appropriate or at major milestones).
• Demonstrates problem solving & design thinking to deliver quality solutions every time.

Design Execution

• Contributes advanced design skills across projects (typography, layout, color, etc.) with a focus on expanding skill set into new categories, brands or aesthetics.
• Takes ownership over the quality of the team contributions.
• Demonstrates quality aesthetic with a high taste level and can locate and curate outside resources (photographers, illustrators, typographers).
• Reviews and checks work before work leaves the studio in partnership with Creative Director.

Production

• Full understanding of print production processes & category specific print technologies.
• liaises with PPM, Production Manager and Senior Designer at key approval milestones to ensure quality.

Administrative

• Partner to develop initiative timelines and resourcing for projects with Creative Director and PM.
• Ensure that files & inputs collected by PM meet the project needs before the project starts.
• Ensure jobs & job parts are up to date in project management system in partnership with PM.
• Lead project-related design conversations with clients.
• Manage client relationship on an initiative level, beyond initial briefing.
• Confirm brief, scope and deliverables with client.
• Aware of full client structure and actively cultivate relationships with client group.
• Participate in client presentations and collaboratively develop a recap next steps with Creative Director or PM.

Process

• Pro-actively monitor and improve the design process.
• Executional filter between JR, Designer, Sr Designer before sharing with Creative Director and Strategist.
• Where appropriate, delegate AD tasks and responsibilities to team members to optimize use of resources.
• Understand/internalize clear scope and deliverables based on client briefs, partner to assign tasks to accomplish deliverables.
• Fluent in industry, category and professional terminology.

Team

• Provide on-the-job guidance and training for designers within project teams.
• Look for opportunities to contribute to broader team development (sharing inspiration, knowledge, technology, etc.).
• Responsible for bringing in Creative Director at key junctures for input and approvals.

Studio

• Personally contribute and encourage others to contribute to knowledge sharing with local and international offices.
• Identify or seed opportunities for providing more services to clients.
• Provide on-the-job guidance and training for directors and designers within project teams. Contribute to organizational knowledge of the client and its markets by regularly sharing insights gained during projects.
• Build desired culture and professionalism through leading by example.

Salary: $120,000 + Bonus