A Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design or Art.
At least 3 years of art direction or design experience.
Creative design experience for products.
Ability to lead and collaborate in a fast-moving, changing, cross-functional, cross-continent team environment.
Ability to work outside standard working hours for cross-continent calls and meetings.
Deep understanding of customer experience, brand management, marketing, advertising, copywriting, storytelling, and e-commerce product listings.
Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities.
Ability to optimize images and designs for various digital platforms.
Ability to ensure quality control with a quick turnaround.
High proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Bridge.
Responsibilities
Collaborate cross-functionally to meet business goals and ensure implemented designs align with brand initiatives, leveraging strategy, analytics, and consumer insights.
Lead overall brand aesthetic direction across e-commerce, product listings, copywriting, digital, print, packaging, and other channels.
Execute creative campaigns supporting e-commerce and marketing initiatives and communicate the brand’s creative strategy across direct-to-consumer, Amazon, Walmart, and other marketplaces.
Produce and direct digital, print, and video photoshoots.
Ensure creative assets receive proper approval and review and address goals while maximizing business objectives.
Lead the creative team in asset creation and own creative project deliverables and timelines.
Provide art and design direction to the team and contribute hands-on to content creation.
Create and optimize brand guidelines across digital, print, and packaging mediums.
Identify opportunities to improve workflows and processes.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with Amazon Marketplace, A+ Content, and Posts.
Current awareness of the competitive landscape, including e-commerce, email marketing, and social campaigns.
Job Description
We are looking for a hands-on E-Commerce Creative Director to lead the creative team. The E-Commerce Creative Director balances the responsibilities of running projects, leading concept development and rolling up your sleeves to work out the details. The ideal candidate is driven to create visually compelling work, grounded in strategy, and focused on the long-term goals of any campaign and the brand story. This highly creative and detail-oriented position requires the ability to collaborate, internally and externally.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate cross-functionally to meet business goals and ensure designs implemented align with the brand’s initiatives. Leverage strategy, analytics, and consumer insights.
Lead overall brand aesthetic direction across all channels including ecommerce, product listing, copywriting, digital, print, packaging, and more.
Execution of creative campaigns that support ecommerce and marketing initiatives and communicate the creative strategy of the brand. (DTC/Amazon/Walmart/Marketplaces/etc)
Produce and direct all photoshoots (digital, print and video).
Ensure that assets receive proper approval and review and ensure that goals are addressed in all creative assets, always looking to maximize business objectives.
Lead creatives team on asset creation, responsible for all design and creative projects deliverables/timelines
Provide art and design direction to the team and have a hands-on approach to content creation
Create and optimize brand guidelines to translate across all mediums including digital, print and packaging.
Identifies opportunities to improve workflow and processes.
Qualifications
Qualifications
BA in Graphic/Art and 3+ years of art direction or design experience
Robust creative design experience for products
Ability to act as a leader in a fast moving, changing, cross-functional, cross-continent team-based environment
Ability to adapt and work outside of standard working hours for cross-continent calls and meetings
Deep understanding of customer experience, brand management, marketing, advertising, copywriting, storytelling and e-commerce product listings
Highly organized with demonstrated project management skills. Able to juggle multiple, and sometimes, conflicting priorities and needs
Experience in Amazon Marketplace, A+ Contents, Posts is a plus
Knows how to optimize images and designs for various digital platforms
Has a sharp eye for design with an elevated design aesthetic
Ensures quality control with a quick turnaround
Stays current on competitive landscape, including e-commerce, email marketing and social campaigns
High proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Bridge
Additional Information
Additional Information
Job Type: Full-Time
Work Location: New York, NY
**We offer CPT, OPT, H1B Sponsorship for International Applicants (US Only)
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