About Us:
AZAZIE stands as the leading direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-tailer, providing an array of bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, evening wear, and accessories. Designed in Los Angeles, AZAZIE disrupts the traditional wedding industry by presenting made-to-order gowns at an affordable price point. The brand is dedicated to promoting body-positive fashion, ensuring that all dresses, available in sizes 0-30, are meticulously cut and sewn to order. Explore our website, where you'll find hundreds of bridal and bridesmaid gowns and dresses, spanning over 80+ enticing color options.
Job Overview:
The Art Director owns and scales our visual storytelling across eCommerce, paid media, and social platforms. This role is responsible for ensuring that every customer touchpoint tells one clear, consistent, conversion-oriented story.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Visual Ownership & Brand Consistency
- Own Azazie's end-to-end visual direction across; eCommerce, Paid media and Organic social
- Ensure all visuals are telling the same story, with consistent Styling, Composition, Model direction, Fit representation, Color, lighting, and realism.
- Establish and maintain clear visual standards and guidelines to ensure alignment across internal teams and external partners.
E-commerce & Conversion-Focused Art Direction
- Art direct imagery that prioritize, Fit clarity, Fabric realism, Proportion and movement, Customer trust
- Partner closely with eCommerce, Marketing, and Performance teams to optimize visuals for conversion, test and iterate poses, angles, backdrops, and formats and apply learnings from performance data to future shoots
Paid Media & Social Visual Strategy
- Translate eCommerce visuals into high-performing ad and social formats without losing consistency or credibility.
- Ensure paid and organic content feels Native to platform and on-brand
- Guide visual hooks, first frames, and modular creative systems for ads at scale.
Systems, Scale & Production
- Build repeatable visual systems that allow Azazie to ship hundreds of SKUs efficiently.
- Partner with Production, Studio, and Operations to create scalable shoot templates, Improve speed-to-market, Balance quality, cost, and volume
- Art direct internal and external studios, photographers, stylists, and retouchers.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Act as a key creative partner to Marketing, Merchandising, Product & Design
- Clearly communicate visual decisions and tradeoffs, grounded in both brand integrity and business impact.
Note: These duties are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and are not exhaustive. The company reserves the right to modify duties and responsibilities as business needs evolve.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience as an Art Director with a strong eCommerce and performance focus.
- Proven experience in DTC fashion, large-scale eCommerce, or performance-driven creative environments.
- Deep understanding of PDP optimization, Paid social creative and platform-specific formats
- Experience shipping high SKU volume content.
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable balancing creative opinion with data and results.
- Excellent communication skills with executive-level partners.
- Experience managing key metrics with demonstrated ability to share insight from data with key stakeholders.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits:
- 100% Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance offered after a 60-day probationary period
- Paid vacation days and sick leave
- Paid Holidays + Floating Holidays
- 401k match
- Parking/Commuter reimbursement (LA based employees only)
- Free snacks and drinks in office
- Employee discount
- Gym access in building
- Company engagement events
Physical Requirements:
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; frequently required to talk or hear; and occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance and color vision.
Azazie, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Azazie, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
This job description is not an employment contract. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. Duties, responsibilities, and requirements may be changed or added at the discretion of Azazie at any time.