Senior Art Director

Kettle • Los Angeles, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Kettle is hiring Senior Art Directors to join their team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of their largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with our internal Creative and Production teams, and the client, to design best-in-class digital experiences and solutions. This role requires conceptual digital design and detailed execution. These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in digital design and art direction, leading projects and initiatives, and consistently delivering pixel perfect designs, while innovating work across a variety of industries
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners
• Some experience mentoring more junior team members
• Strong client collaboration and management skills, with a proven ability to present and defend design strategies to senior-level clients and stakeholders
• Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote
• Proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch
• Additional motion and prototyping software is a plus, with the ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience both in-house and with creative agencies

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions—consistently exceeding project goals and setting new creative benchmarks
• Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences
• Proactively stay ahead of emerging design practices and technologies, identifying and integrating industry trends to elevate both design quality and user experience across projects
• Champion and refine agile design processes, establishing best practices and raising the bar for design standards throughout the organization
• Serve as both a collaborative team lead, and a highly proactive individual contributor, inspiring others through example and initiative
• Actively solicit, interpret, and integrate feedback from diverse sources, leveraging it to enhance design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed