Studio: Ride Shotgun
Job Opening: Art Director
Location: Manchester, England, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Originate big ideas and implement creative campaigns for CGI, digital, motion, and stills projects at the highest level.
- Ensure creative work and concepts are aligned with client strategies.
- A hands-on approach to the direction of CGI and traditional media projects.
- Liaise with production teams to ensure the best creative outputs.
- Develop a thorough understanding of all client products and services, and their business objectives, pressures, and markets, to exceed client expectations.
- Manage allocated time and resources on projects to ensure deadlines are met.
- Work with the wider creative and strategic teams to uphold the integrity of concepts.
- Understand and work within brand and corporate guidelines where relevant.
- Use your experience and knowledge to identify and resolve design, art direction, and production challenges.
- Work together with the creative and account management teams to exceed client expectations and drive up standards of creativity.
- Communicate progress at every stage of the creative process to facilitate the smooth running of work and planning schedules.
- Produce outputs as required to a high level of finish for internal and external presentations.
- Ensure creative output is quality-controlled and accurate.
- Keeping up to date with current design and digital trends and techniques.
- Researching new techniques for creative and production including the integration of AI.
- Undertaking some additional duties if required.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Clear experience in creative concepting from client and internal briefs.
- Strength in campaign ideation across retail sectors.
- A good understanding of motion/animation and CGI production.
- Art direction curation and reference building for clear, concise visual direction.
- Storyboarding and design/layout capability.
- Strong project leadership and confident, constructive direction skills.
- Presentation building and client-facing confidence.
- Adobe suite competence (including Ps, Id, Pr, Ai).
