Job Description
Deputy Art Director
Remote
At Freethink Media, we believe the daily news should inspire people to build a better world. While most media is fueled by toxic politics and negativity, we focus on solutions: the smartest people, the biggest ideas, and the most ground breaking technology shaping our future.
About the Role:
We are looking for a creative and strategic senior designer with an agency background to join our team as the Deputy Art Director. You are well-organized, collaborative, a strategic thinker and a team builder, and will support the Art Director in departmental decisions, including recruitment, training, and career development of other designers. You have great attention to detail, a sophisticated sense of typography and layout, and experience in art directing designers and illustrators.
What You’ll Do
- Oversee visual creative for weekly campaigns: We develop creative packaging direction for about 4-6 mini documentary videos per week. You will collaborate closely with designers, copywriters, and engagement editors to bring together the overall vision for promotional assets and campaigns. You will lead the graphic designers to execute on the vision, pushing for interesting and effective concepts, and communicate through revisions.
- Coordinate daily design production: You will help coordinate the work of other designers to achieve creative campaign and asset goals, holding daily/weekly/monthly QA sessions as needed. You will create briefs and manage communication around any outsourcing needs, tapping additional designers and freelance creatives when needed. You will oversee and manage the production of daily promotional assets.
- Collaborate with AD to help maintain visual standards: You will collaborate with the Art Director to define broader creative visions, brand standards, guidelines, and continuously make choices to help maintain the vision and standards.
Additionally, your secondary objectives would be to:
- Help assign work and run the department: Work with the AD and project manager to distribute incoming design requests, manage department documentation and infrastructure, and generally help the design department run smoothly.
- Develop new brands: Help manage the design process around the creation of new brands. Oversee other designers going through the process of designing new brands, internally or for our partners.
- Actively explore and help evolve our design strategies: Consistently research examples of successful advertising and strategic design. Proactively look to improve visual tactics and techniques in order to help connect with our audiences. Work with engagement editors to track performance and identify successful approaches.
What You’ll Need
- Experience in design or with an advertising agency
- A strong portfolio showcasing inventive concepts in advertising and digital media campaigns
- Creative leadership experience
- Strong organizational & time-management skills
- Ability to work quickly, iterate, and generate a large number of ideas
- Knowing when to scrap an idea or when to push it further
- Excellent communication and team player skills with the ability to provide effective feedback
- Ability to make strategic design decisions with a deep understanding of our audiences and key topic areas
- Ability to present design concepts and approaches to various internal and external stakeholders
- Must be available to predominantly work east coast hours
What You’ll Get Out Of this Opportunity
- Work from home, remote flexibility
- Collaborative culture and mentorship in a startup environment
- The opportunity to work in a unique editorial design environment, helping tell interesting stories across science, tech, history, and philosophy
- Help shape the design department of a quickly growing new media publication
- Growth opportunities within a fast-growing company
- Competitive salary and benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance, 401(k), Commuter Benefits, Mobile Phone Stipend, and more!
Do you meet most, but not all of the qualifications for this role? No worries – we invite you to apply if you think you’d be a great match!