Art Supervisor
About The Position
The Art Supervisor manages brand work and oversees junior members of the art team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments, and approving work. The role works closely with copywriters, project managers, art directors, developers, information architects, and account services to maintain brand consistency and creative excellence. The Art Supervisor ensures work is on strategy, within budget, and supports the Client’s business. The position executes and directs creative across print, video, 3D, interactive, and social media. It champions brand integrity across online and offline materials, provides strategic design direction, presents creative concepts and rationale, and translates brands to online, mobile, and video applications. The role also stays current with interactive, mobile, advertising, design, visual communications, marketing, and technology trends, and identifies ways to apply technology to client needs. The Art Supervisor collaborates across agency and client teams, manages outside vendors and internal resources, and works with account service, project management, and development staff to deliver work on time and within budget. Management duties include prioritizing work, supporting staff, mentoring and providing feedback to direct reports, helping with hiring and onboarding, monitoring team workload and time reporting, and recommending improvements to departmental roles and procedures. The position is based in New York, NY. In-person client travel is required. Omnicom policy requires employees to work in the office at least three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by the agency or manager.
Requirements
- College degree in visual communications or equivalent experience.
- 5–6 years of digital and print design or advertising experience.
- Advertising and/or print and digital design portfolio or equivalent website.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Thorough understanding of UX.
- Expert-level skill in Adobe XD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
- Thorough knowledge of accessibility guidelines and Responsive Web Design.
- Experience concepting and designing for pharmaceutical advertising.
Responsibilities
- Manage brand work and oversee junior art team members by monitoring projects, delegating assignments, and approving work.
- Execute and direct creative across print, video, 3D, interactive, and social media.
- Maintain brand integrity, consistency, and creative excellence across online and offline materials and throughout assigned accounts.
- Develop fresh, strategic design and advertising concepts that meet client objectives, working collaboratively with copywriters and other art directors.
- Present creative concepts and design rationale to teams, clients, and prospective new business clients.
- Stay current with interactive, mobile, advertising, design, visual communications, marketing, and technology trends, and apply relevant developments to projects.
- Build client credibility by developing knowledge of client businesses, brands, competitive marketplaces, and technological advances.
- Manage outside vendors and resources, including photographers, illustrators, production vendors, printers, digital and mobile vendors, and third-party developers, with attention to cost and creative quality.
- Collaborate with client, creative, account, project management, development, and internal business teams to deliver projects on time and within budget.
- Advocate for technologies that meet interactive project budgets and demonstrate best practices for interactive production, including preparing files for development handoff.
- Apply relevant heuristics from wireframes and sitemaps, along with usability study results, to interactive materials.
- Manage time and priorities across jobs, monitor workload and team efficiency, and keep supervisors informed of workload challenges.
- Help supervisors manage staff issues and interview, train, and orient new team members as directed.
- Mentor team members, provide ongoing guidance and constructive feedback, and complete annual performance reviews for direct reports.
- Oversee team time-off schedules and time reporting, maintain accurate timesheets, and review and approve direct reports’ timesheets.
- Recommend departmental role or procedure changes to improve efficiency and outcomes across accounts.
- Communicate professionally, solve problems, manage interpersonal challenges, and remain calm under pressure.
- Travel in person to meet with clients.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
