Senior Art Director

Purpose
You will be responsible for conceptualizing, creating, and producing compelling creative ideas that resonate with target audiences and align with our clients' brand identities. 

Responsibilities

• Able to function as a leader in the conception, design, and creation of content for television, print, websites, and multimedia creative on projects assigned by the Group Creative Director.
• Ability to ensure the quality, craft, and implementation of all work done on given projects.
• Create exceptional advertising concepts and take responsibility for the art direction
• Demonstrates the ability to share a compelling POV and sell work to internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Understands the Client’s business, brand, products, and their customers.
• Is responsible for presenting to clients when needed and structuring selling arguments for work.
• Strategize with the brand team to anticipate problems, analyze solutions, identify alternatives, and suggest recommendations.
• Partners with Group Creative Directors and Strategy to inform creative strategies that will lead to great work.
• Collaborates with other departments, account management, strategy and clients to ensure extraordinary work.
• Remains current with and ahead of creative trends in the industry & culture. 

 
Proficiencies

Competencies

• Creative Stewardship. A high standard of creative work that is award-winning is applauded by the industry and appreciated by existing clients and new business prospects.
• Relationship Management. A professional role model with positive influence who motivates colleagues. Ability to collaborate with all key stakeholders across all offices.
• Cultural Leader. Help activate and foster the McKinney culture and serve as a McKinney Brand Ambassador to the advertising industry.

 
Professional Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrates excellent communication, selling, and presentation skills and strong relationship and customer service skills. 
• Strong multidisciplinary creative portfolio demonstrating proficiency in content creation, photography, graphic design, motion graphics, and illustration
• Strong understanding of various social media platforms, their unique audiences, and content requirements.Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Background in art direction

Experience
The ideal candidate has 5-6 years of experience in advertising; exceptions are made based on the level of work pertaining to creative product and creative management abilities. Presentation of a strong personal, creative portfolio.

Training
In art, design, photography, journalism, videography or related field is a plus.

Salary Range

Our estimated range for this role is $120k - $140k

Compensation packages are based on the skill level and experience each candidate brings to their role. There may also be a more senior or junior position available that could be a better fit with your expertise. Each level has its own compensation range.

We pride ourselves on competitive salaries, and ensuring pay equity exists across our organization. We benchmark each position against existing employee competencies and 4As compensation data which includes geographic and agency size benchmarks. We also meet with department leaders 3x/year to ensure we are supporting employees in living into their full potential.  Our promotions are not limited to a specific time per year. Promotions are tied to performance.  

Right To Work In The US

You must be authorized to work in the US for any employer.  At this time, we are not sponsoring or providing assistance with obtaining work authorization.

McKinney is a place where everyone can grow. Studies have shown that marginalized communities  such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

We are in the office Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday on a hybrid schedule. We look forward to meeting you!