Art Director

Amsive•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Amsive is seeking an experienced, hands-on Art Director to lead visual development across clients and channels. The role combines conceptual thinking and art direction with hands-on design, digital advertising, and video production and editing. The Art Director will take ownership of new and active projects, quickly understand audiences, briefs, brands, deliverables, and deadlines, and make thoughtful creative decisions while managing multiple assignments. The role collaborates closely with copywriters, strategists, account leads, and project managers. The position develops concepts and visual direction for digital ads, paid social, video, presentations, and brand campaigns, and carries creative from initial concept through revisions, final files, and delivery. It includes producing and editing video, adapting creative across formats and channels, presenting work and explaining creative decisions, and incorporating feedback. The Art Director also manages quality, brand consistency, accuracy, production requirements, timing, and workload; works within client brand and legal or compliance guidelines; and uses AI tools where appropriate and permitted. This is a hybrid position requiring 1–2 days in the office, based in New York, NY or Nashville, TN. Amsive does not provide sponsorship opportunities. Applicants should submit a résumé and portfolio showing their role in concept development, art direction, and hands-on execution of digital ads and video, along with their availability to begin.

Requirements

Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual design, and work carried through to final execution, including digital ads and video.
Experience managing creative assignments in an agency or similarly fast-paced environment, with judgment to move work forward and seek alignment at key milestones.
Skill in typography, layout, composition, and visual storytelling, including working within established brand systems and developing fresh ideas.
Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Figma animation workflows for editing footage, creating motion graphics, and animating typography.
Ability to produce motion-led, live-action, and copy-driven videos with clear messaging, strong pacing, and thoughtful composition.
Strong eye for color, sound, transitions, and brand consistency, and ability to deliver finished videos across channels and formats.
Confidence presenting creative work and discussing feedback with internal teams and clients.
Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud for hands-on design and asset production, with practical video production and editing skills and working knowledge of tools needed to deliver finished video assets.
Experience creating digital and paid social assets, developing concepts or storyboards for video and motion, and adapting creative for different formats and channels.
Organization across competing deadlines, sound judgment, and clear communication.

Nice To Haves

Experience with regulated or approval-intensive clients.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of new and in-progress projects and quickly understand the audience, brief, brand, deliverables, and deadlines.
Develop concepts and visual direction for digital ads, paid social, video, presentations, and brand campaigns.
Design and execute creative from initial concept through revisions, final files, and delivery, including digital ad assets and channel variations.
Produce and edit video creative through final delivery, incorporating feedback.
Adapt creative across formats and channels while maintaining a consistent, high-quality visual system.
Partner with copywriters, strategists, account leads, and project managers throughout the creative process.
Present creative work to internal teams and clients and explain the thinking behind creative decisions.
Translate feedback into next steps, make recommendations, and flag conflicting direction or decisions requiring alignment.
Collaborate with or provide direction to other designers when needed.
Manage multiple assignments, communicate progress, and raise timing or workload concerns early.
Review work for creative quality, brand consistency, accuracy, and production requirements before delivery.
Work within client brand guidelines and legal or compliance review processes, including those for regulated industries.
Use AI tools where appropriate and permitted, following agency and client guidelines.