Art Director

Kettle
Los Angeles, CA

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have proven digital design experience for social media and thrive in collaborative, agile environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a track record of creating on-brand social media concepts and executing them pixel-perfectly
    — “Proven experience in digital design and art direction, especially for social media”
  • Individuals who can confidently present to senior clients and manage creative expectations
    — “Strong client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients”
  • Creative professionals who are proactive in adopting and integrating new design technologies and trends
    — “Stay on top of best design practices and technologies, and see opportunities to creatively incorporate industry trends”

Things to consider

  • Must be based in Los Angeles and occasionally travel to Culver City for in-person work
    — “Must be located in Los Angeles, CA, and be able to occasionally go onsite to our client’s offices in Culver City”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to innovate and deliver modern, on-brand design solutions in your portfolio
    — “Create differentiating, modern, on-brand digital design solutions”
  • Demonstrate your mastery of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Keynote in your resume and interview responses
    — “Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • innovative design solutions
  • client satisfaction
  • best-in-class social media design
Typical background
digital designart direction

Skills & requirements

Required

Digital DesignArt DirectionSocial Media DesignCollaborationClient Management

Preferred

Motion DesignPrototyping

Stack & domain

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe KeynoteFigmaSketchFitnessWellnessSports

About the role

Original posting from Kettle via Greenhouse

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great ideas, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. 

We are looking for an Art Director to work on a global fitness client running and concepting for their social media accounts. In this role, you’ll partner with our Creative, Production, and client teams to design best-in-class social and digital design ideas. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may be for you.

Must be located in Los Angeles, CA, and be able to occasionally go onsite to our client’s offices in Culver City.

Candidates should have:

Proven experience in digital design and art direction, especially for social media, and the ability to create pixel perfect designs while innovating work

Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners

Strong client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients

Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus

Experience with fitness, wellness, and/or sports clients preferred

Lives and breaths the latest and greatest across social media

We’d like to know that you can:

Create differentiating, modern, on-brand digital design solutions—it’s all about meeting the challenge and then bringing something extra to the table

Communicate and present confidently–speaking to design solutions and describing web interactions clearly to your team and clients

Stay on top of best design practices and technologies, and see opportunities to creatively incorporate industry trends to elevate design and user experience

Embrace an agile design process and set new standards

Be both a team member and a proactive individual contributor

Accept and incorporate constructive feedback in your designs

The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k - $140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

Source: Kettle careers (Greenhouse)

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