Senior Art Director, Brand
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: New York, United States
Company Description
Job Description
Square is looking for a Senior Art Director to join our award-winning Creative Team. As an art director, you'll develop creative strategies, concept-guided campaigns, visual treatments, and be an expert at expressing the Square brand. You will work with your team to create inspiring solutions that tell Square's story and educate merchants about how they can run and grow their business with Square. You'll guide designers to create compelling work and help direct internal teams and external partners on productions. You will lead projects for a variety of marketing programs from start to finish with people across the organization.
Art Directors are an essential part of a team of program managers, cross-discipline art directors, designers, copywriters, and design technologists that work together to create marketing campaign work. This is a hands-on role that works with cross-functional partners to express our Brand through experiential, digital, video, photo, and editorial creative. You will work with Creative Leadership, partners in Strategy, Product Marketing, Brand Marketing, Video, Photo, Production Design, and Product and external agency teams.
For us, art direction isn't just a discipline—it's a deep understanding of how to develop compelling visual treatments, guide collaboration, and uphold design excellence to develop ideas that inspire audiences. You are conceptual, strategic, kind, passionate, and connected in the creative industry. You can share and sell ideas, and you can encourage and help others to do the same.
Responsibilities
- Partner with copywriters, designers, and cross-team to translate content and marketing strategies into creative concepts.
- Create campaign concepts that stretch across media and channels including broadcast, print, web, social, and retail / experiential
- Iterate and communicate ideas across multiple levels of fidelity (mood boards, concept statements, design explorations, art direction boards, style frames, presentations)
- Incorporate and translate feedback from Creative Leaders and teammates into clear and inspiring guidance to develop the best work
- Create outstanding photography, videography direction, typography, branding application direction, and design direction
- Provide inspiration, mentorship and direction to multi-disciplinary creatives
- Cultivate trust and partnerships
- Work with creative producers and program managers to develop project plans and ensure that projects are progressing and creative is delivered on time.
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources
Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) builds tools to empower businesses and individuals to participate in the economy. Sellers use Square to reach buyers online and in person, manage their business, and access financing. Individuals use Cash App to spend, send, store, and invest money. And TIDAL is a global music and entertainment platform that expands Square's purpose of economic empowerment to artists. Square, Inc. has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, Norway, and the UK.