Brand Art Director

The Trade Desk•New York, NY

About The Position

The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day. So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk! We’re looking for a Brand Art Director based in New York City to join our Creative team. Our ideal candidate is conceptual, collaborative, and most of all curious, with experience working across a diverse range of global creative/design initiatives. Above all, you think in brand systems — energized by how a visual identity scales, how design decisions connect across touchpoints, and how great work compounds into something unmistakably cohesive. If that’s you, we’d love to meet you.

Requirements

6-10 years of experience focused on developing creative work at an agency or in-house for an established global B2B or B2C brand, with at least 2 of those years leading/concepting projects and working with senior leadership.
A brand thinker with range — your portfolio leads with identity and systems work, but you’re equally comfortable executing across campaigns, events, social, and digital.
Confident presenting your work and rationale to stakeholders — you can walk a room through creative decisions, hold a point of view under pressure, and advocate for the work without being precious about it.
Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma, with working knowledge of or active curiosity about AI tools — and how they can accelerate process, push creative, and evolve brand systems.
A strong design eye — typography, composition, hierarchy, color — with taste that shows in everything you make.
You make it easy. You’re as organized and reliable as you are talented — you deliver on time, listen well, and make the people around you better. When creative direction shifts or scope changes, you adapt without drama and find a way to make the work stronger for it.
Please provide a link to your portfolio in your application (will not be considered without portfolio website).

Nice To Haves

Experience in motion graphics, on-set art direction, and/or working with web developers is a plus.

Responsibilities

Shape and scale The Trade Desk’s visual brand identity — creating work that sets the standards and raises the bar across every channel and format we show up in.
Partner with our Brand, Product Marketing, Digital, Social and Events teams to create brand-consistent creative across campaigns, programs, and initiatives.
Own the creative for a high volume of events, campaigns, and programs — from large-scale global experiences and industry conferences to product and education initiatives like Edge Academy. This means concepting, art directing, and executing across environmental design, digital advertising, social, video, and web.
Ensure brand consistency across all touchpoints — contributing to the development, documentation, and stewardship of our visual identity and brand system.
This is an Individual Contributor role, and you will balance working independently and in close collaboration with the creative director, art directors, copywriters, designers, editors, and producers.

Benefits

All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions.
Plus, expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year.
Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.

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