Art Director
About this Role
Hello, prospective pickle! Design Pickle is growing fast, and we are looking to expand our team by adding an Art Director. In this role, you will steward our client's brands, ensuring that each design project meets their unique brand standards and overall strategy. Your primary responsibility will be to serve in a production capacity, meticulously reviewing creative outputs and ensuring that they align with our client's brand guidelines and our high creative standards. While you won't generate new content, you will need a strong understanding of design and an ability to adapt brand guidelines to fit various regional and local applications.
Reports to: Production Specialist
Timezone: US Working hours EST/PST
On a daily basis, works closely with Creatives, Quality Specialists, Team Coordinators, and Production Specialists.
Keep in mind that this role is only available to Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Availability during regular PST/EST business hours is required.
Who We Are Looking For
First, Make Relish is anything but typical. We’re a group of hard-working, creativity-loving individuals from around the world. You will work directly with a team of creatives to ensure Design Pickle’s customers get the best creative work they’ve seen in their lives!
Do we love pickles, too? Most of us! But don’t stress if pickles aren’t your thing. It’s not a deal-breaker. We do look for passion and interest in something, though, because our uniqueness is what helped make us into the great company we are today.
We stand by our vision, purpose, and values, and these are mission-critical to how you show up every single day.
Specific to your role, we’re looking for individuals who have…
- A passion for our purpose: to be the most helpful creative platform in the world.
- In-depth knowledge of the creative development and production process, enabling successful fulfillment of the vision and implementation of creative briefs.
- Proficient in coordinating multiple projects concurrently while dealing with diverse stakeholders.
- Attention to detail with exceptional organizational ability.
- Proficient in project and relationship management.
- Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills, with an aptitude for collaboration across multiple teams.
- Proven experience in a similar role, preferably with a strong brand management and oversight focus.
- Robust conceptual, graphic design, type, and page layout skills for projects ranging from print to interactive to broadcast.
- Exceptional eye for detail and a deep understanding of the technical aspects of branding.
- Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly explain brand guidelines and the reasons behind them.
- Practical understanding of Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat.
- Practical understanding of Canva, Figma, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Google Slides.
- Resourceful and self-motivated individual who excels in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in organizing and comprehending project requirements, even when they may not be well-defined.
- Daily interaction with clients, mainly through Slack and Email, with multiple virtual meetings weekly.
- Business-Level English skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional and international teams, including other Art Directors, Team Coordinators, Quality specialists, Customer Success Representatives, and Customers.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines to ensure timely delivery of high-quality work.
- Decision-making, negotiation, and forward-thinking skills.
Bonus Pickle Points if you have…
- Proven working experience coordinating creative teams, preferably in an agency-type environment.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the creative process and what constitutes good creative work.
- Knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
- Familiarity or experience in a creative role is a plus.
- Experience in customer support or client-facing roles.
Key Objectives and Responsibilities
- Review and oversee all creative output, ensuring quality and alignment with client brand guidelines and creative standards.
- Provide creative recommendations and enhancements to concepts to improve the look & feel of delivered work.
- Curate and develop customer brand profiles and supporting documentation in the Design Pickle Platform.
- Responsible for the creative quality across a wide range of high-value and high-potential customers
- Develop a deep understanding of each client's brand, acting as the guardian of its visual identity across all touchpoints.
- Provide brand stewardship, familiarizing the team on properly using brand assets.
- Stay updated with industry trends, technology, and design tools to drive continuous improvement.
Compensation and Perks
- 100% Remote work
- Above-average industry pay rates
- Fast-tracked development potential
- Subsidized Adobe CC Subscription
- Consistent payout schedule
- Diverse creative community
- Amazing Culture guided by our Core Values
- Performance-based fee
- And so much more!
About Us
Make Relish is a Design Pickle Partner focused on global talent acquisition for multiple creative global solutions to provide high-quality design, illustrations, and motion graphics to Design Pickle’s customers. Make Relish is dedicated to changing lives through creativity by providing independent contractors across the globe with above-average industry pay rates with a consistent payout schedule and the chance to work within a diverse creative community.
Design Pickle was founded in 2015 with a vision to change lives through its creative software, solutions, and services. Since then, the company has grown to be the #1 flat-rate creative services company in the world. We have served tens of thousands of clients with a team that spans the globe.
In 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, Inc. 5000 listed Design Pickle as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
We are a company that takes our core values to heart:
Be the SPARK
Let your fire and passion inspire someone else’s day.
DRIVE Performance
Seek out new ways to improve performance, satisfaction, and impact for our customers. Less is more rules supreme.
Give it to me STRAIGHT
Lead with radical and professional candor in every situation. Graciously accept when others do the same. Move forward together and aligned.
HELP when nobody's watching
Find opportunities to support each other and our clients beyond the day-to-day.
Lean into HARD
We thoughtfully select our challenges and tenaciously commit to conquering them.
Make your own PICKLES
We are a collection of incredible individuals who challenge ourselves and each other to grow. Change is celebrated as a sign of progress.