Weber Shandwick · 2 hours ago
Senior Art Director
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$80K/yr - $110K/yr
5+ years expWeber Shandwick is looking for a Senior Art Director who is passionate about media trends and the internet to join their team in Chicago. The role involves crafting innovative campaigns, mentoring junior talent, and ensuring the brand's visual identity resonates across platforms.
AdvertisingAnalyticsConsultingContentMarketingPublic RelationsReputation
Responsibilities
Be a builder: You’ll drive ideation of attention-grabbing ideas. You’ll work alongside various disciplines from strategy to account to media relations and analytics (to name a few), co-building to ensure your ideas transcend platforms and break the internet. All the while, mentoring and fostering junior creative talent
Own the voice: Be a guardian of the visual identity of the brand and for each campaign you work on
Balance art and strategy: Stay playful, but always purposeful. Your visuals and ideas don’t just entertain, they deliver results
Be the pulse of culture: You need to know before anyone else what Gens Alpha and Z are doing on social channels, why brands are jumping all over a meme, what conversations are capturing the attention of journalists (and why) and who is poised to become the next big thing in the cultural conversation. These inputs will shape the ideas you develop and bring to teams and clients
Monitor the Zeitgeist: Research platforms, subcultures, emerging media, and niche communities to unearth untapped opportunities
Qualification
Required
5 years art direction and/or design experience, especially if you've worked on social-first campaigns or for culturally relevant brands
Work quickly and accurately within all aspects of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint)
Obsessive curiosity: About trends, people, platforms, memes, and the mechanics of why certain things just work
A social media sixth sense: You know which platforms matter most, what kind of content works where, and how to surprise people within the context of their scroll
Pop culture proficiency: From mainstream moments to niche internet corners, you stay plugged into what everyone's talking about, and what they're about to
A sense of humor: If you can't laugh at yourself (or at least at the internet), we're not the place for you
Preferred
Bonus points for illustration, After Effects, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML
Benefits
You’ll work with some of the best creatives in the business, a team fueled by bold ideas, cultural insights, and enough caffeine to power a small city.
You’ll have the freedom to experiment, fail forward, and redefine what “earned-first creativity” means.
You’ll create work that matters to brands, to audiences, and to culture at large.
Company
Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is a global public relations firm with offices in major media, business, and government capitals around the world. It is a sub-organization of Interpublic Group.
1001-5000 employees
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