Art Director

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. 

We are hiring Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with Creative Directors, Designers, Copy, UX, Production, and our client to create world-class digital experiences. You’ll help translate the creative North Star into a clear and own-able design direction, lead the visual development of projects, and guide Designers through execution. You’ll be hands-on in the work while also acting as a creative lead for your project or workstream. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates with you, then this role may be a fit.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote. 

Candidates should have:

Significant experience in digital design and art direction, with a strong track record of leading projects and delivering pixel-perfect digital work

Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including Design, Copy, UX, Motion, Production, and Account

Strong client collaboration and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate and defend creative and design decisions to senior-level clients and stakeholders

Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and Sketch, with additional motion, prototyping, or emerging creative technology experience a plus

Experience mentoring and guiding designers of different levels, including through formal and informal feedback and reviews

While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies

We’d like to know that you can:

Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions that answer the brief and bring something extra to the work

Translate the creative North Star into a clear visual direction that Designers can understand, build from, and ultimately own

Partner closely with Copy and other creative disciplines to develop simple, relevant concepts and experiences where the writing, design, UX, and art direction feel completely connected

Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences

Understand and challenge client needs to ensure the integrity and excellence of the work

Work through exploration and execution, providing clear feedback while giving them room to solve and contribute

Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs

Stay ahead of emerging design practices, technologies, and design culture, identifying opportunities to elevate both design quality and user experience

Champion an agile design process and establish best practices that raise the quality and consistency of work

Actively solicit, interpret, and incorporate feedback from diverse sources, using it to improve design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers

Be both a collaborative lead and a highly proactive individual contributor

The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k - $140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.