Hybrid Art Director

at Maker Lab

• Job title: Art Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Jakarta, Indonesia

About the role

• Midweight Art Director at Maker Lab integrating creative leadership for client campaigns. Driving design quality and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams in digital marketing.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for setting and pushing the standards of Art Director and Graphic designers, ensuring that only the highest quality of visuals that are on brand leave the door.
• Participate in full-scale integrated campaigns from concept to completion. This will include creating and producing photography, illustration, animation, digital, and experiential work.
• Hands-on design development in collaboration with Creative Leads and creative consultants within the team.
• You will be leading the design and development of effective communications and brand campaigns, which include digital creative work such as online display ads and in-app comms as well as customer experience design.
• You will provide guidance and leadership for the juniors, working with the senior creatives on the Creative team.
• You will work and align with marketing teams to ensure that deliverables adhere to the strategic brief and the brand’s vision and intention.
• Champion the user (both content creators and viewers/fans) in all your design rationales. Ensuring that your creative decisions are based on user behaviour and insights.

Requirements

• 7-8 years of agency experience, where you have led and executed large integrated campaigns (including digital marketing).
• A keen eye for aesthetics and a good understanding of visual design.
• Formal design training in art or other design disciplines, plus basic copywriting knowledge.
• The ability to explain, sell, and defend your art direction choices in an objective way.
• Strong communication skills in managing stakeholders from all levels.
• Some experience in managing a team of art directors and copywriters.
• Experience in managing workflow for the development of multiple creative assets.
• Strong technical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator and Photoshop.
• (Nice to have) An interest in AI and automation.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills to cover projects across APAC.