Associate Art Director / Sr. Graphic Designer

Overview

Arnell Intelligence AI Brands is a multidisciplinary design office working with several top tier companies on brand design and design-led business development. We are an award-winning brand design and development firm founded and led by Peter Arnell. Arnell takes a consumer centric, design-led approach to helping customers innovate and grow their businesses. We believe great design is the product of intelligence, passion and personal commitment. This is demonstrated by a portfolio that spans over 45 years across a variety of industries from Startups to Fortune 500 clients. We excel at brand innovation, brand creation, new product development, consumer experience, environmental design touching all aspects of brand creation. We create new companies and brands, expand and extend existing brands, and design the products, services, spaces, communications and experiences that bring them to life.
Associate Art Director / Senior Graphic Designer

We are seeking a highly capable designer with strong conceptual instincts and exceptional craft to join our graphic design team. This role is for someone who can translate high-level creative direction into sophisticated, beautifully resolved design across brands, communications, digital products, and experiences. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in branding, graphic design, and digital product design, with fluency across identity systems, presentations, campaigns, websites, app interfaces, and emerging AI-driven experiences. Equally comfortable shaping early creative concepts and executing established directions, this individual combines strategic thinking with precision execution and consistently high standards of design. This is a hands-on role within a fast-paced, high-expectation creative environment, ideal for someone energized by ambitious work, rapid momentum, and a broad range of multidisciplinary projects.
Responsibilities

Partner with Creative Directors and senior leadership to develop and execute design across a broad range of client and internal initiatives
Translate high-level art direction into thoughtful, fully realized design systems and collateral
Contribute to concept development, visual ideation, and creative exploration
Design across brand identity, digital products, websites, app interfaces, presentations, campaigns, editorial, and marketing communications
Create polished production-ready deliverables with exceptional attention to detail
Build layouts, design systems, templates, and visual frameworks that scale across touchpoints
Design high-impact presentations, storytelling systems, and visual narratives for client and internal initiatives
Collaborate with strategists, writers, product teams, developers, and interdisciplinary partners
Support UX/UI thinking for digital products, interfaces, and interactive experiences
Help prototype ideas, mock up concepts, and communicate design rationale clearly
Manage multiple active projects simultaneously while maintaining exceptional creative standards
Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and design workflows, including AI-enabled creative processes
Qualifications

5–10 years of professional experience in graphic design, brand design, or art direction
Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across branding, digital design, and visual communications
Experience designing for websites, digital products, app interfaces, or AI-driven experiences
Strong conceptual thinking with the ability to contribute meaningfully to creative development
Proven ability to take direction and execute at a high level with speed and precision
Excellent typography, composition, layout, and visual storytelling skills
Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
Proactive, motivated, highly dependable, and solutions-oriented
Strong communication and presentation skills
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative creative environment
Comfortable managing multiple priorities and shifting timelines
Technical Requirements

Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign required)
Strong proficiency in Figma and/or Adobe XD
Experience creating digital wireframes, UX/UI systems, and interactive design
Proficiency with AI creative tools and workflows is highly desirable
Motion design / prototyping experience is a plus
Familiarity with web production workflows and developer collaboration is a plus
Ideal Candidate

You are a designer with strong creative instincts and exceptional craft. You know how to move from concept to execution without losing quality. You can think strategically, design beautifully, communicate clearly, and operate confidently in a high-performance creative environment. You’re energized by ambitious work, fast timelines, and the opportunity to help shape brands, products, and experiences across industries.

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