What are the responsibilities and job description for the Art Director position at Horizontal Talent?
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Having interesting, relevant and surprising ideas.
• Building on other people’s interesting, relevant and surprising ideas.
• Having skills to elegantly solve common client asks.
• Having more pride and passion about your work than necessary.
• Wanting to make things that haven’t been made before.
• Wanting to become better at all of the above.
• Listen to client’s needs and helping them with their goals, while still making something great.
• Willingness to review and refine the things you’re working on.
• Work well as part of a team to produce great (not just good) ideas
• Work seamlessly with mac artists and production to ensure design integrity for the final product. Which requires attention to detail.
• Love and obsess about advertising in a way that non-adverting people think is super weird.
• Understand the design needs of digital and social media and emerging technology
• Solid working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite required. No seriously, please.
Project participation
• Ensure that ideas and designs are produced in an organized, timely, budget-?friendly way.
• Participate and lead internal creative reviews.
• Lead or participate in creative discussions and presentations to clients.
• Be able to listen and be nice to Account and Strategy folks about project requirements
• Responsible for contributing to creative service’s profitability.
• Perform administrative duties on a timely basis as required
Agency Responsibilities:
An Art Director has a responsibility to the company as a whole.
• Agency Representative in the Community – Represent positively in the business and advertising communities.
• Agency Growth – Assist in pursuing new opportunities with assigned clients and new business initiatives
• Agency Commitment – Demonstrate loyalty to the agency.
• Agency Culture – Demonstrate agency core values: curious, creative and courageous
