Sircle Media · 1 month ago
Art Director (AI or Graphic Design Focus)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$75K/yr - $90K/yrSircle Media is seeking a talented Art Director with a focus on either AI creation or Graphic Design leadership. The role involves leading creative teams, managing client communications, and executing brand campaigns while solving problems under pressure.
AdvertisingDigital MarketingEmail MarketingGraphic DesignInformation TechnologySocial Media Marketing
Responsibilities
Lead concepting, visual direction, and creative execution across brand campaigns and social ecosystems
Own client-facing communication: present creative, guide feedback conversations, and course-correct challenging accounts with confidence
Direct and mentor designers, creators, SMMs, and freelancers — ensuring alignment, clarity, and quality across all outputs. Shows calm, steady leadership in any room — upholding standards, keeping the work aligned, and bringing emotional maturity to every interaction
Act as the "adult in the room": steady, proactive, decisive, and unafraid to jump in when accounts get tough. Trusted to independently run client conversations, stabilize uncertainty, and guide accounts through complexity without escalation
Solve problems quickly, pivot ideas on the fly, and read the room to know when to shift direction
Partner cross-functionally to turn strategy into scroll-stopping creative and consistent brand systems
Participate in pitches, brainstorms, and creative reviews — bringing the energy and clarity needed to move ideas forward. Demonstrates strong, repeatable creative judgment and elevates the bar for taste, clarity, and narrative thinking across accounts
Create and art direct AI-generated assets (photo-real product visuals, presentations, lifestyle scenes, motion-ready imagery)
Introduce new tools, workflows, and experimental methods that elevate creative output
Help mentor teammates on AI best practices, prompting, and quality standards
Provide feedback and mentorship to our Graphics Team
Guide layout, typography, copy-as-design, and systemized content approaches
Ensure design-first thinking is upheld across templates, campaigns, and brand worlds
Design elevated graphics from time to time, ranging from assets for social platforms, paid ads or email design
Qualification
Required
A strong portfolio showcasing professional Art Direction work across brand campaigns, visual systems, and social storytelling
Experience leading teams and handling client-facing presentations, strategy discussions, and difficult conversations with confidence
Ability to give clear, actionable creative direction that elevates the work — not just executes it
Comfort working in fast-paced agency environments with tight deadlines and evolving challenges
Hands-on experience generating high-fidelity AI assets (Midjourney, Runway, Freepik, Krea, Sora, etc.) if choosing Path A (AI)
Strong promptcraft and an understanding of composition, lighting, realism, and visual storytelling in AI workflows if choosing Path A (AI)
Strong command of layout, hierarchy, typography, and brand systems if choosing Path B (Graphic Design)
Ability to use copy as a design element and elevate templates, toolkits, and visual cohesion if choosing Path B (Graphic Design)
Preferred
Experience creating AI conceptual systems such as brandscapes or brand identity worlds
Experience creating pattern libraries or iconography
Experience creating modular visual systems using AI
Experience creating generative brand or campaign environments
Benefits
401(k) with automatic 3% match
Flexible PTO
Health, vision and dental insurance
FSA options
And more.
Company
Sircle Media
Sircle Media is a social media agency that specializes in graphic design, social strategy, digital marketing, and retail support.
Founded in 2011
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase