Senior Art Director

  • Full-time

Company Description

Heartbeat is the full-service agency for healthcare Challenger Brands. So what? So… Challengers are playing a high-stakes game—they must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a “me-too” product into “yes-please” product. That means we never take the easy road. We are a crew of optimists and activists who believe that “Never Been Done” doesn’t mean “Don’t Ever Do.” 

A culture-first, creative community, Heartbeat’s been recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by both Ad Age and MM&M. We take a lot of pride in that. Heartbeaters are thinkers and doers with healthcare roots and an appetite for fresh perspectives. We chase after challenges with ingenuity and guts, always striving for better. So if you want to surround yourself with partners who are insightful, inventive, and courageous—well, you just hit the motherload. 

That’s the philosophy, here are the creds: 200 employees between NYC & LA; strategy, creative, media, & technology under a single roof; a pile of awards from the likes of the Mannys, MM&M, OMMA, & Clio, not to mention Agency of the Year nominations galore. And led by a President who dared to be quoted: “We celebrate people who stand up and say, ‘You know what? This is dumb.'” Damn straight.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Copy to generate unique creative advertising & marketing campaign concepts
  • Collaborate with strategists, UX and copy to conceive and create industry-leading graphic interfaces and digital brand experiences for tactics such as display media, web sites, mobile application, social media and other emerging digital media platforms
  • Lead design development and production for interactive projects and complex creative campaigns, combining hands-on work with direction of junior staff
  • Execute all deliverables to HB specifications and in line with project timeframes
  • Communicate specific design production needs to technology team through development and delivery of rigorous project style guides
  • Present concepts and deliverables clearly and passionately to internal and client audiences alike and identify actionable critiques from those audiences that advance project goals
  • Partner with Creative leadership to resolve issues and maintain the quality of art deliverables
  • Participate in new business pitches to win new and extend existing client relationships
  • Work with Creative leadership, Account, Production and Technology to identify scope and timelines for assigned projects as necessary
  • Stay abreast of industry best practices for digital design and advertising

Qualifications

 Skills:

  • Exceptional concept development and graphic design ability.
  • Ability to recognize strong creative ideas and see them through to completion.
  • Excellent understanding of composition, color, imagery and typography.
  • Ability to sell ideas to other members of the creative team and to clients.
  • Effective communication skills (in conversation and in writing)
  • Ability to thrive under pressure in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to meet deadlines for multiple projects simultaneously
  • Excellent understanding of user experience issues.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of agency experience.
  • Formal design training with solid typography, graphic and interaction design skills.
  • In-depth knowledge of the latest versions Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, and image optimization for web.
  • Extensive experience creating web graphics, animations, user interfaces, icons, style sheets, color schemes, templates and layouts for use in online advertising and website projects, ensuring site- wide color and typeface standards and consistency.
  • Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or commensurate experience.

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