Arc is the lead shopper and retail agency within Publicis Groupe. In an era of unprecedented disruption, where the customers you seek actively resist brands like never before, everything we do is in service of making your brand irresistible. We call it Irresistible Commerce. And it starts by employing insights and data to uncover what’s standing in the way of growth. Then we deploy irresistible creative solutions to build connected shopping experiences that are personal, valuable and delightful for your customers. The results simultaneously drive brand sales and love. Helping us become WARC’s #1 Specialty Retail Agency with groundbreaking work recognized by Adweek, ANA Reggie Awards and Effies.

Position in a Nutshell

The expectation for this mid-level position is to demonstrate the ability to creative problem-solving and designing marketing communication materials for business assignments.

An Art Director develops and executes creative marketing ideas and materials to solve client business challenges.  Shows competency in developing ideas and executions for creative product. Has a good sense for design fundamentals and visual esthetics.  Collaborates a copywriter and other agency disciplines to generate ideas and create concepts that are on strategy, on brand and achieve client objectives.

An Art Director should be curious, ambitious, open-minded, collaborative and showcase their creativity with both ideas and executions. They should be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of creative solutions for business problems while collaborating with others to learn and delvelop quality work that meets the needs of a project brief. An Art Director is also continuing to build their brand reputation within the agency.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities: Deliver on Creative Assignments

Creative Development

• • Partners with a copywriter, or other team members, to create solutions for assignments
  • Composes rough layouts and design options quickly
  • Develops well-crafted design solutions for specific medias that are on brand and on strategy
  • Consistently presents great design principles to deliver clear and compelling communication
  • Is resourceful and innovative with business creative processes such as usage rights for stock photography and fonts
  • Has an understanding of company development processes
  • Consistently domonstrates open-mindedness and resillience to feedback and direction
  • Interprets feedback and provides solutions that fit and exceed the expectation

Concepting & Ideation

• • Participates in creative brainstorms
  • Leans into knowledge on current trends, pop culture, and current and past design themes
  • Brings original ideas, builds on others and facilitates collaborative thinking with others
  • Shows an understanding of business problems, opportunities and challenges and how to address them
  • Understands business and thinks outside of the box for solutions
  • Is understanding what ideas are effective or not and why

Knowledge & Skills

• • 2-5 years of experience as a Jr Art Director or is currently an Art Director
  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications
  • Skillful application of typography, layout and design principles
  • Able to communicate clearly, thoroughly and succinctly both verbally and in writing; can clearly articulate an idea
  • Shows ability to present work internally, rationalizing creative decisions to problem solving.
  • Able to accept constructive feedback and apply in work
  • Current knowledge and understanding of where and how people interact with media, including at home, on the go, while shopping, mobile, broadcast, print, event, etc.
  • Collaborates well with others, demonstrated by partnering with other creatives and agency disciplines to successfully brainstorm and concept ideas
  • Anticipates potential problems and obstacles to project success, communicates concerns and develops solutions that go beyond what is expected
  • Comes prepared to all meetings: project kick-off, brainstorms, creative reviews and production turnover
  • Asks for or confirms the expectations for your deliverables and timing
  • Follow industry best practices in file builds
  • Follows company structures and proceedures for production hand-offs and file governance
  • Understands how to utilize communication platforms such as Teams, e-mail, LionBox, Servers
  • Keeps track of billing hours and has good time-mamgement skills
  • Handle other duties as assigned by supervisor

The Power of One starts with our people!  To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.  Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Arc is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.