Art Director

Snap•Santa Monica, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Snap Inc. is looking for an Art Director to support the SPECS Marketing team. This role will develop creative from concept through execution across a portfolio of key partners, brand campaigns, and marketing briefs. You will concept and create integrated campaigns spanning photography, film, web, social, AR, experiential, and emerging platforms—developing visually compelling ideas and design systems that influence consumer behavior and drive impact through ideas, craft, and innovation. You will work with senior creatives, designers, copywriters, strategists, marketers, and production partners to develop breakthrough concepts and bring them to life across multiple channels, with the ultimate goal of crafting world-class brand campaigns, content, and AR creative. This is a player–coach role: you will both lead and direct the work and act as a hands-on creative and designer, jumping into files to concept, design, and build key assets yourself. You will be comfortable developing the big idea for a campaign, defining its visual language, directing its execution across photo and film production, and translating that thinking into digital, web, social, and experiential experiences.

Requirements

Strong portfolio demonstrating high-impact, culturally relevant brand campaigns and integrated creative work
Expertise in art direction across photography, film, digital, web, social, AR, and experiential platforms
Strong creative concepting skills with the ability to develop a campaign from an initial insight or brief into a compelling overarching idea and visual world
Experience developing 360° brand campaigns and translating a core creative concept across multiple channels and formats
Strong understanding of photography and film production, including treatments, casting, locations, wardrobe, production design, lighting, cinematography, and post-production
Experience concepting and art directing photo shoots and film shoots from pre-production through final delivery
Strong understanding of web design, digital experiences, and interactive storytelling
Experience developing social-first creative and adapting campaign ideas for different platforms, audiences, and formats
Ability to lead and guide designers and creatives across multiple projects and workstreams
Strong conceptual thinking grounded in human insights, culture, storytelling, and problem-solving
Exceptional eye for design, composition, typography, color, photography, motion, and visual storytelling
Experience developing visual systems, storyboards, creative treatments, mood boards, and design frameworks that clearly communicate ideas
Ability to collaborate closely with copywriters to bring ideas to life holistically
Strong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate creative concepts and visual ideas clearly and compellingly
Comfortable giving both design and conceptual direction
Proven hands-on design craft, with the ability to independently execute production-ready visuals across digital, social, web, and AR
Expert proficiency in modern design tools including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with comfort working directly in files to push craft
Ability to switch fluidly between high-level creative concepting, art direction, and detailed hands-on design execution as project needs evolve
Strong understanding of creative, design, production, and marketing processes
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, and sometimes ambiguous environment
Excellent creative, presentation, and problem-solving skills, with an eye for small details and a passion for big ideas
Comfortable giving both design direction on projects
Ability to articulate simple, compelling ideas that can scale into larger creative platforms
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of relevant creative experience
Proven experience working as an Art Director in an agency, studio, or in-house creative environment
Strong track record of concepting and executing integrated brand campaigns across multiple channels
Demonstrated experience taking creative from initial concept and visual development through production and final execution
Experience concepting and art directing photography and film productions
Experience developing storyboards, visual treatments, mood boards, and production approaches for photography, film, animation, and interactive experiences
Experience concepting and designing for websites, digital experiences, and social content
Experience across a range of media, including brand campaigns, photography, film, digital, social, websites, mobile, AR, and emerging formats
Strong track record of concepting and executing visually driven digital campaigns, including experience with AR or emerging platforms

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a creative agency, brand studio, or highly conceptual in-house creative environment
Experience developing global or large-scale integrated brand campaigns
Experience working directly with photographers, directors, production companies, and other external creative partners
Experience contributing to new business development, pitches, and creative presentations
Experience developing creative that bridges brand storytelling, product storytelling, and emerging technology

Responsibilities

Creative concept development and visual ideation for integrated brand campaigns, partner initiatives, AR experiences, and marketing briefs
Develop big-picture campaign concepts and creative platforms that can extend across photography, film, web, social, AR, experiential, and emerging formats
Concept and art direct photo shoots and film productions, developing visual treatments, shot lists, storyboards, casting direction, wardrobe direction, production design, lighting, and overall visual language
Partner with producers, photographers, directors, cinematographers, stylists, editors, and other production partners to bring creative concepts from pre-production through final delivery
Concept and art direct web and digital experiences, including campaign sites, landing pages, interactive experiences, and other digital touchpoints
Develop concepts and visual systems for social-first content, including campaign extensions, short-form video, photography, motion, and platform-native creative
Translate overarching campaign ideas into cohesive visual systems that work consistently across channels while adapting appropriately to each medium
Inspire, guide, and motivate designers and copywriters to craft thoughtful, impactful creative through strong art direction
Partner closely with copy counterparts to develop cohesive, integrated ideas
Utilize storytelling and strategic thinking skills to present creative concepts to creative directors, strategists, marketers, and key stakeholders
Develop and present creative treatments, mood boards, visual territories, campaign concepts, and production approaches
Collaborate with comms planners, strategists, and producers to understand campaign performance and apply learnings to future creative
Manage and mentor junior creatives to elevate conceptual thinking, craft, and execution
Oversee visual execution across scripts, pitches, storyboards, treatments, presentations, and marketing materials
Concept, design, and build high-fidelity campaign assets and AR experiences yourself, from early explorations through final production
Jump hands-on into design files (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite) to iterate layouts, typography, visual systems, and campaign assets alongside the team
Personally execute key design deliverables on priority projects while balancing art direction and leadership responsibilities
Collaborate with internal and external production partners to ensure creative and design intent is carried through from concept to final output across film, photography, digital, social, AR, and experiential touchpoints
Maintain a high level of craft and visual consistency across every expression of a campaign