ABOUT VAYNERX
VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.
ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA
VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.
Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMediaAPAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time --- PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing a diverse client all around the region.
The PITCH
We are looking for a Senior Art Director who has the know-how and skills to work hands-on and who can own and guide the creative process from ideation to execution. Sometimes you’ll be leading a team of creators to make a volume of content that’ll make people laugh and cry. Sometimes you’ll be collaborating in a brainstorm for a big campaign. Sometimes you’ll be on set using your eye to make sure everything in frame looks “just so.” Every task is challenging, but highly rewarding.
You’ll be joining a tightly-knit creative team working with emerging and established brands across food & beverage, telecommunication services, entertainment, and more. The team is a diverse mix of makers, creators, and ideators from musicians to viral content creators. But we’re all passionate about our mission: How do we level-up our clients to be the next big thing?
Are you based in Sydney? Geeking the creative world in the Australian market for seven plus years now? Oh well, we could be meant to be --
Here’s where you come in.
- Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guide the team across each.
- You are a creator and an ideator who can execute at both a high speed and volume.
- Capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency.
- Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback.
- Connecting the dots between culture and content to make concise and relevant creative recommendations.
- Championing the look and feel of your brands. (Style guides are your bible.)
- Support CDs, ACDs and win new business pitches.
- Help review and optimize the juniors output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
- Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.
- Assists in developing company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work.
- Understanding, articulating, and strategically applying the latest social best-practices to every creative opportunity.
- Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique VaynerMedia POV
- Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.
Your Experience
- 7+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field in the Australia market.
- Collaborate with our creative and strategy teams, to create and manipulate video, a plethora of photography, social copy, gifs, short clips, streaming stories, etc.
- Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
- Wrangle and roll with your teammates on rapid-fire requests and seriously tight timelines while keeping a chill, proactive attitude.
- Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems.
What you should know about VaynerMedia
Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!
Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.
P.S Send us your portfolio --- always excited to see some unicorn talents :)