Art Director

Hello from Maker Lab! Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to deliver bespoke solutions at speed and at scale. Our APAC and EMEA based cross-functional teams support client projects with strategy, ideation and execution across social media, data analytics, events, paid media, content and CRM.

Art Director

Two months fixed term contract

As our Art Director, you’ll be supporting our small but mighty creative studio as an all-in-one mid-weight creative. You’ll be working alongside the team on a wide variety of projects, from digital ads, social content, and some illustrative / branding work, to a touch of print.

You should be experienced in handling projects from conceptualisation to delivery, and comfortable working across a mixture of different projects. You’ll eat, sleep, breathe design and be fully up to date with the latest design trends and developments within the industry, helping to drive and influence the creative through your work. You’ll have a strong sense of what makes an idea good, perfect layouts, beautiful typography, and be able to make even the trickiest layout projects look fantastic.

*Please submit your portfolio, showreel or work deck to be considered for this role. Don’t forget to add relevant social media handles so we can check out the creative awesomeness you’ve crafted for the social media world!

Role:

• Design and content creation for social media assets, digital ads, print ads, event collateral, publications, deck templates, toolkits, brand guides, information design, and illustrations

• Independently developing creative responses to briefs

• Localising and adapting global creatives for use in regional markets

• Staying abreast of and capitalising on emerging industry trends

• Ideate, craft and execute original creative concepts to meet the brief’s objectives and goals

• Localising and adapting global creative by developing images and animations to reflect the region’s nuances while retaining the intentions

• Adapting predefined formats and brand/campaign moments

• Stay relevant and in the know of the clients’ products and services

You:

• 5+ years experience creating awesome work for top brands, preferably with a mix of in-house and agency creative production experience,

• Proven graphic design and illustration skills, underpinned by a background in creative conception and origination.

• A trained eye for expertly crafted layouts and typography.

• A high level of attention to detail and an ability to multitask with fast turnaround times.

• Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors

• Self-starter who can work independently with minimal guidance

• Team player with open communication to ensure we’re always on the same page

• Well organised and able to manage your time working towards deadlines

• Solid experience with a full range of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD)

• Knowledge of After Effects and animation would be a plus.

• Familiarity with GSuite products – Google Slides, Doc, Sheets, Gmail, etc

• Exceptional verbal and written English communications and presentations skills and - ideally - fluent in another Asian language to cover the projects spanning across JAPAC.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles!