Art Director

We’re a global creative agency, with more than 1000 people in 16 offices around the world, 200+ here in our Milan’s office. We deliver world-class creative campaigns and strategies based on social insights, for best-in-class brands.

At We Are Social we believe that teamwork and respect for everyone's contribution can lead to great results. We believe that flexibility and the ability to adapt to changes by taking advantage of opportunities is a fundamental characteristic for achieving success. And we also believe that always looking for new challenges and going beyond what is due is the right attitude to always do better.

Art Direction Team

The Art Direction team at We Are Social is part of the broader Creative and Editorial department and is responsible for ensuring and evolving our clients' visual identity across all types of content that we conceive, create, and manage for them on all social media channels.

Role Purpose

Reporting to Art Supervisor or Creative Director, is responsible for supporting the Design and Creative team in creating content across all media channels.

The role is a very “hands-on”, because he/she is responsible for creating visual concepts in response to clients’ briefs and relaying them to the Creative Supervisor/ Head of Art / Creative Director. His/her work is mainly focused on editorial and digital projects, although he/she also works on specific campaigns or activations

Responsible for design executions and creating visual response to briefs with the supervision of senior designers or art directors. Is also asked to get things done to a high standard and able to make it easy for others to do the same.

Art directors need to be natural visual thinkers, ready to expand their skills and learn from senior colleagues in order to flourish.

Key Responsibilities

• Definition of creative concepts, their execution, and detailed crafting
• Art direction for ongoing content, formats and activations for the clients’ editorial plan
• Execution and quality control of output during the creative production phase
• Study and development of visual identity and brand for reference clients
• Participation in defining and developing editorial strategy in terms of languages and visual formats
• Constant alignment with Creative and Client Service references

Requirements

• Degree in art direction, graphic design, or equivalent fields
• 1/3 years experience in creative agencies is really appreciate
• Excellent knowledge and experience with Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to work in extended and complex teams
• Competence and mastery across different media, formats, tools, and techniques of visual communication
• High affinity and passion for social media.
• Intuition for current trends and developments.
• A good knowledge of English is a nice to have

Benefits

• Career Path Design - quarterly check-in moments and annual evaluations that will allow us to discuss your professional growth within WAS.
• WAS Passport - opportunity to work for two weeks per year in all offices of our global network.
• Bottom Up & Top Down professional training.
• Mental Health CSR and Diversity & Inclusion activities.
• Smart working up to two days per week.

*For this vacancy, only an apprenticeship contract is provided.

As part of the We are Social team you will be expected to create and encourage a culture where people from all backgrounds feel included, accepted and valued.

Our CODE can help us to make diversity and inclusion one of the pillars of our commitment culture that will help us to maintain our competitive edge, be one of the best agencies to work for and achieve our vision: to lead the evolution of marketing.

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