Associate Creative Director (Art-Luxury/Retail)- Freelance

PUBLICIS GROUPE • New York, NY

122d • $61 - $79 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Art Director at Razorfish, you will work to understand our client's objectives, help shape the creative approach, and work with the Creative, Social and Strategy teams in overseeing the creative vision and execution of projects. This is a hybrid role - a mix of creative and social creator responsibilities, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Digital Media Design, or Advertising/Portfolio school.
• 5-7 years total experience with at least 1 year in an advertising or marketing agency.
• An engaging portfolio that demonstrates both conceptual ability and art direction craft and social content creation.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (After effect, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, Canva.
• General awareness and understanding of the digital landscape, including online campaigns, mobile experiences, and social media landscape.
• Enthusiasm, big ideas and attention for details are welcome.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A creative mindset with a passion for storytelling and innovation.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• You are passionate about the creative world and love to stay on top of the latest trends, strategies, and technologies as well as how competitors within the industry are doing things.
• Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality work.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with fashion brands is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Supports larger creative and social teams in brainstorming sessions and concept creation.
• Uses insights to tailor content that resonates with target demographics.
• Hones a strong, strategic sense to concept against creative briefs.
• Stay updated on industry and platform trends, competitor strategies, and audience behavior to inform content creation.
• Has a general knowledge of technology, user interface and visual design fundamentals.
• Maintains high quality on creative deliverables.
• Develops creative content for digital and social media platforms - IG, TikTok, etc.
• Overall creative is on-brand but also inspires user engagement, wins affinity and is breakthrough and fresh.
• Capture / Generate and edit creative assets that will live across all social channels (image & video - with and without audio) on a daily and weekly basis.
• Have a command of basic photo retouching when it comes to still photography.
• Be able to be independent and proactive (at times there will be copywriter help) but one must demonstrate the ability to write post copy for social.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present ideas internally as well as liaise with the client and in-house creative team members on a daily / weekly basis.

Benefits

• Medical and voluntary benefits to freelancers and temporary employees.
• Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.
• Eligibility for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits after 90 consecutive calendar days of employment.
• Participation in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after completing 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees