Art Director

 ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR CAREER TO NEW HEIGHTS? ARE YOU SEEKING A NEW CHALLENGE IN A DYNAMIC SECTOR?  

This is a very exciting and highly innovative time here at Outside. 

OUR TRUE NORTH:

Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offers best-in-class content and experiences to more than 70 million of the world’s most passionate outdoor, wellness, and endurance enthusiasts every month. We inspire a broad and diverse audience to do the activities they love with greater enjoyment, inspiration, and knowledge and are dedicated to making real change in the outdoor and fitness industries.

We’re searching for a multi-disciplined Art Director/Designer to join a diverse group of other integrated creatives on the Outside Brand Creative team. Help us create experiences that inspire people to live an active, healthy lifestyle and experience the great outdoors.

Objectives

• Help support a transparent, diverse, and inclusive creative culture that focuses on executing award-winning caliber work that also puts the team’s overall wellness and work-life balance at the heart of it.
• Bring a design and visual eye to the many mediums and brands the creative team interacts and collaborates with. 
• Be the day-to-day Art Director/Designer responsible for executing the design vision for many projects, campaigns, and brands across the organization. 
• Translate brand strategy, marketing, editorial, sales, and product objectives into effective and cohesive designs, resonating across all brands.
• Collaborate with cross-functional departments in developing high-end creative: brand leads, editorial, marketing, sales, video/content and print production.
• Elevate the quality of design and art direction across the organization. 
• Inspire the world to get outdoors with our creativity.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute digital-first design, brand-building design craft, and innovative work across Outside channels and customer touchpoints.
• Develop concepts and execute the design of marketing materials for email, social, website, and other digital media channels.
• Be the steward of best design for 15+ brands in the Outside Network, while supporting the design team through additional touchpoints.
• Develop A/B testing for campaigns, partnering with Audience Development and CRM email team 
• Manage and grow the email design system, utilizing Figma and Hubspot 
• Support cross-functional collaboration in the development, approvals and executions of design deliverables.
• Build presentation decks that communicate the creative clearly and how it answers the problems/insights/features.
• Present your art direction point of view in an inspiring and thoughtful manner. 
• Be a lifelong student of creativity and design for yourself and the Brand Creative team. 
• Be a creative thinker first and an art director/designer second.

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+  years of experience designing and or art directing at an agency or in-house creative team environment.
• Exposure and experience with AI tools that enable you to speed concept exploration and production
• A high-quality portfolio that reflects skills in developing and producing integrated content, campaigns and non-traditional marketing across multiple channels from film, digital, social, and experiential, but also understands the offline and print world.
• Self-starter who is highly motivated and embodies an entrepreneurial mindset to develop creative work.
• Human insights-driven in order to identify cultural and niche community insights and develop creative strategies and authentic creative experiences.
• Additional creative approaches and AI-based skills, such as: animation, 3D, UX/UI design, illustration, editing, etc.

Bonus Qualifications

• BA degree in marketing, design, and/or communications.
• Experience working at a creative-led agency.
• Participates in the outdoor and endurance lifestyle and wants to inspire the world to do the same.

What We Offer:

Entirely remote jobs that could be performed in Colorado: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of  between $80,000 to $115,000.  Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission . Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away,  sick leave, and more.  This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors