Art Director & Copywriter

Posted Mar 14

Description

Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab’s cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.

Art Director & Copywriter

12 months fixed term contract

Maker Lab supports clients across technology, entertainment, financial services and the payments industry. We’re looking for dynamic individuals to join our team and support our amazing clients in the technology industry.

As an Art Director & Copywriter, you will be working closely with the team to drive bar-raising creative content to delight, inform and inspire audiences. You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment while helping to constantly evolve the local market’s creative and visual engagement strategies and support improving efficiencies. 

You are a problem solver with a passion for entertainment, you strive to bring the best idea into designs to elevate the client’s brand to the next level!

*Please share with us your portfolio to be considered for the role.

Role: 

  • Supporting the conceptualisation and development of daily creative & content executions across all social platforms.
  • You will be responsible for always-on social content curation efforts, from research and ideation to final expression.
  • Supporting the rest of the team and collaborating with clients’ marketing, branding, and other teams and departments.
  • Work with the team and create the strategic foundations to help us generate and execute impossible-to-ignore ideas for the clients’ branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications.
  • Lead design & copywriting in the creative process, from brainstorming to designing pitch comps to delivery.
  • Localising and adapting predefined formats and brand/campaign moments
  • Stay relevant and in the know of the client's products and services
  • Ideate and execute ideas from beginning to end in a fast-paced working environment.
  • Create original visual executions that are exciting and innovative and that respond to the client’s business, brand and strategic objectives across the region. 
  • Source and manage freelancers, third-party vendors and production partners.
  • Maintain client relationships and apply business acumen to develop accounts where possible.

You:

  • 2+ years of experience creating awesome work for top brands, preferably with a mix of in-house and agency creative production experience
  • Experience with cross-channel visual language strategies and execution across digital, social, events and motion
  • Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
  • You’re a graphic design enthusiast and interactive media advocate and, not tied to specific creative and execution formats, able to execute design work across all mediums.
  • A multi-faceted designer who knows your Adobe Creative Suite well, and you’re happy to bounce between all kinds of software (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere), depending on the occasion. 
  • You don’t just consider yourself a great designer but also an amazing creative. You love coming up with ideas as much as you love spending time crafting them!
  • A sharp-eyed, detail-oriented and good design ambassador. You have a strong sense of layout, colour, composition and type
  • Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills and, ideally, fluent in another Asian language to support the projects spanning APAC.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.