Senior Art Director

Who We Are

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Senior Art Director, Health 

Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a Senior Art Director, Health to join their growing creative team and help push the craft across several high-profile healthcare accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work alongside a team of creative directors, copywriters, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in the digital/social space and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented designer. 

If there's a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, get ready to play in that space. Whether driving a big project (a multi-channel campaign) or overseeing social creative, this candidate will be expected to deliver exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused visuals. 

The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria: 

RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Help lead design across a wide range of assignments, including identity work, campaign creative, social content, video, mockups, infographics, presentations, experiential and print collateral/OOH.
• Experience in designing for social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.) with an advanced understanding of best practices for creative, design, and layout.
• Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
• Create design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
• Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives. 
• Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
• Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers
• Cultivate an inclusive culture as a part of the team that values trust, honesty, and team accountability towards defined goals and results 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• 5+ years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency department or industry (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
• Prior healthcare/public health experience.
• Must have a portfolio.
• This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office two days per week.
• Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
• Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
• Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects and XD) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint). Understanding of print production, typography systems and layout fundamentals; any After Effects animation skills will be utilized
• Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML 

Salary Range: $80,000 USD – $110,000 USD

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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