Art Director - Art Department, Print

Role Summary

The Art Director is responsible for leading creative development and execution across the Art Department’s print-focused initiatives, including promotions, store signage, and marketing events, activations and gifting. This role provides art direction and creative guidance to a team of designers, while partnering closely with Creative Operations and cross functional teams to manage projects from initial brief and concept through production and final execution.

The Art Director is also an active creative contributor, supporting concept development and taking on design for more complex or early-stage projects as needed.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide art direction, creative guidance and design feedback to a team of designers across multiple levels.
• Review incoming briefs, assign project ownership and establish creative, design and production direction.
• Lead creative development across promotions, store signage, and marketing events, activations and gifting, while supporting campaign and broader brand initiatives as needed.
• Review and develop work through multiple rounds of creative feedback, ensuring a high level of design and brand consistency.
• Concept, design and develop higher-level or more complex projects that require additional creative exploration and ideation.
• Partner closely with Creative Operations to manage priorities, project timelines, workload and resources across the team.
• Manage and direct freelance creative support as needed.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Visual, Copy, Marketing Operations, Store Operations and other cross-functional partners to workshop creative solutions and problem-solve throughout project development.
• Oversee projects through production and final execution, including proof review, print production considerations, materials and substrate recommendations, signage implementation and mock-store presentation.
• Represent the Art Department in cross-functional briefings, creative reviews and higher-level meetings.
• Present creative work and recommendations to senior creative leadership and communicate feedback and direction back to the design team.

Role Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in an Art Director or comparable creative leadership role, with experience managing and directing designers.
• Strong graphic design, typography and art direction skills with a sophisticated visual sensibility.
• Fashion, retail or lifestyle brand experience highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of print production processes, with experience across signage, packaging, large-format graphics and printed collateral.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; experience working within Asana or a comparable project-management platform.
• Ability to independently lead multiple projects from concept through production while managing competing priorities and tight timelines.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate creative direction and rationale.

Qualities:

• Flexible and nimble, with the ability to pivot quickly as priorities, timelines and creative direction evolve.
• Comfortable working within tight timelines and responding to high-priority and executive-level requests.
• Strong creative thinker and problem-solver who can move fluidly between concept development, art direction and execution.
• Collaborative leader who can provide clear, actionable feedback while empowering designers to independently own their work.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize multiple concurrent projects and keep work moving in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident communicator and relationship builder who can collaborate effectively across creative and operational teams.

Location: Philadelphia PA (Home Office), hybrid 

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The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.