Art Director (AI or Graphic Design Focus)

Sircle Media Solutions•New York, NY

28d•$75,000 - $90,000

About The Position

We’re looking for a true Art Director first — someone who can lead clients, guide teams, problem-solve under pressure, and bring creative clarity to fast-moving accounts. This role is 90% classic, agency-grade Art Direction with 10% specialized skill in either AI creation or Graphic Design leadership. If you’re the type who runs toward the fire, thrives under tight deadlines, and knows how to steer creative teams through complexity with confidence and calm, you’ll thrive here.

Requirements

A strong portfolio showcasing professional Art Direction work across brand campaigns, visual systems, and social storytelling.
Experience leading teams and handling client-facing presentations, strategy discussions, and difficult conversations with confidence.
Ability to give clear, actionable creative direction that elevates the work — not just executes it.
Comfort working in fast-paced agency environments with tight deadlines and evolving challenges.
Hands-on experience generating high-fidelity AI assets (Midjourney, Runway, Freepik, Krea, Sora, etc.).
Strong promptcraft and an understanding of composition, lighting, realism, and visual storytelling in AI workflows.
Strong command of layout, hierarchy, typography, and brand systems.
Ability to use copy as a design element and elevate templates, toolkits, and visual cohesion.
A confident communicator with presence — someone who can command a room without ego.
Calm under pressure, proactive, and solutions-focused when projects get messy.
A team player who leads with positivity and raises the bar for those around you.
Hungry, self-directed, and not afraid to jump into complex situations and find clarity.
Someone who truly runs toward the fire — not away from it — when the team or client needs support.
You’re a skilled maker who naturally elevates the work — offering clear direction, sharing knowledge, and helping others level up through collaboration.
You love tough problems, tight deadlines, and the creative opportunities that come with them.
You see AI or design not as a shortcut, but as a craft — something to master, refine, and push forward.
You’re adaptable, modern, strategic, and ready to help lead the next era of creative at Sircle.

Nice To Haves

Experience creating AI conceptual systems such as: Brandscapes or brand identity worlds Pattern libraries or iconography Modular visual systems using AI Generative brand or campaign environments

Responsibilities

Lead concepting, visual direction, and creative execution across brand campaigns and social ecosystems.
Own client-facing communication: present creative, guide feedback conversations, and course-correct challenging accounts with confidence.
Direct and mentor designers, creators, SMMs, and freelancers — ensuring alignment, clarity, and quality across all outputs.
Shows calm, steady leadership in any room — upholding standards, keeping the work aligned, and bringing emotional maturity to every interaction.
Act as the "adult in the room": steady, proactive, decisive, and unafraid to jump in when accounts get tough.
Trusted to independently run client conversations, stabilize uncertainty, and guide accounts through complexity without escalation.
Solve problems quickly, pivot ideas on the fly, and read the room to know when to shift direction.
Partner cross-functionally to turn strategy into scroll-stopping creative and consistent brand systems.
Participate in pitches, brainstorms, and creative reviews — bringing the energy and clarity needed to move ideas forward.
Demonstrates strong, repeatable creative judgment and elevates the bar for taste, clarity, and narrative thinking across accounts.
Create and art direct AI-generated assets (photo-real product visuals, presentations, lifestyle scenes, motion-ready imagery).
Introduce new tools, workflows, and experimental methods that elevate creative output.
Help mentor teammates on AI best practices, prompting, and quality standards.
Provide feedback and mentorship to our Graphics Team.
Guide layout, typography, copy-as-design, and systemized content approaches.
Ensure design-first thinking is upheld across templates, campaigns, and brand worlds.
Design elevated graphics from time to time, ranging from assets for social platforms, paid ads or email design