Art Director (Social)

We are looking for a Senior Art Director for a top beauty company in NYC! Reporting to the VP Creative, the Senior Social Art Director will lead cross-functional collaboration across the creative team to concept, execute and deliver high-impact creative for our social media platforms and paid media.

Key Details

Location: 4 days onsite, 1 day remote

Pay Rate: $52/hour

Employment Type: Temp to Perm

Responsibilities

Partner with VP Creative, VP Marketing, Social Media Manager and Public Relations Manager on concepting and art direction for all social media channels and paid social owns output.

Lead concept ideation and visualization for social campaigns across platforms, aligned to NPL and evergreen creative cadences.

Drive visual research and trend interpretation across photography, video and social to maintain and grow platform engagement.

Collaborate with the production team to build shoot schedules, run-of-show documents and casting summaries.

Manage and mentor graphic designers, content creators, video editors and retouchers.

On set

Support the Creative Director and campaign Art Directors on secondary sets; oversee campaign and evergreen social and digital needs.

Manage social capture sets for on-figure, still-life and video.

Post production

Supervise designers in maintaining tight image and typography reproduction standards.

Oversee retouching and video post-production in partnership with the team to uphold high standards across all platforms.

Key competencies

Relevant art direction experience in beauty and/or fashion, including graphic design, concepting and on-set team management.

Social native with deep fluency in emerging trends across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; able to reinterpret for the brand environment.

Strong familiarity with beauty and lifestyle talent and the broader social community.

Knowledge of beauty and fashion photography and cinema is a strong asset.

Strong graphic design foundation with technical typography skills.

Proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere.

Post-production oversight experience across both still and video.

Qualifications
Required

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

8+ years of art direction experience, with significant time in beauty, fashion or lifestyle brands.

Proven track record concepting and executing social-first creative across social media channels.

Experience managing and directing creative teams including designers, editors and retouchers.

Strong on-set experience managing social capture for both still and video.

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere.

Post-production oversight experience across still and video.

Preferred

Experience at a DTC, prestige beauty brand, or background in fashion preferred.

If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today.

Benefits
Solomon Page offers a comprehensive benefit program for hourly employees. We pride ourselves on offering medical, dental, 401(k), direct deposit and commuter benefits to our employees, including freelancers - which sets us apart in the industries we serve.

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