Powell is currently seeking a Senior Art Director to help create transformative brands that put people back at the center of everything.

Does this sound like you?

With with one foot firmly in strategy and the other pointed toward a big design vision, you have an identity-heavy portfolio and a real love for the art and science of branding.

As a multi-disciplined creative lead, your primary role is to develop and represent a unique design POV — heavily involved in the work, while providing direction and creative guidance to others on the team.

You’ll deliver work with smart creative ideas, exceptional design and strategic thinking. You are creative and process-oriented, and dogged in your curiosity to understand consumer needs and motivations.

You are a skilled communicator, facilitating client working sessions and presenting strategy-backed, beautiful creative.

Snapshot:

• Partner with research and strategy teams to understand a brand and its ecosystem

• Listen to clients, then collaborate with your team to develop and present creative concepts 

• Develop visual brand systems that differentiate brands and support business growth goals

You will work with a variety of clients, from technology to nonprofit to consumer goods. This is a contract position, with the opportunity to interview for a full time placement after 90 days. Compensation will be based on experience and may range from $1500-$1750/week.*

*Estimate assumes 32-hour work week

On any given day you might…

Develop brands

• Collaborate with insights teams & writers to understand our clients’ competitive landscape, cultural influences, and key consumer needs & motivations

• Develop creative briefs that capture strategic insight and provide logic and direction for design, as well as inspiration for freelance creatives

• Build brand systems that bring a brand’s purpose to life through a unique visual identity

Execute on creative

• Present your work and build buy-in with internal teams and clients

• Express the brand across all assets that make up a client’s marketing library (e.g. sales presentations, collateral, signage, interior branding, ad creative and more)

Collaborate across teams

• Work collaboratively with account management to ensure creative aligns to clients’ strategic business and brand goals

• Direct, oversee, and sign off on all creative elements to ensure that content and visual expression are in line with brand strategy, for both Powell and its clients

Support the Powell brand

• Oversee the quality and consistent use of the agency’s brand, helping extend it across use cases and assets as needed, including presentations, social media and website

• Lead creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed (no spec)

• Contribute your strategic design expertise to the overall creative growth of the agency

What we’re looking for in a teammate: 

• Entrepreneurial — you are bold and creative, ready to take ownership of the role.

• Objective — you’re able to bring a fresh perspective, keeping the end goal in mind without being held back by prior assumptions or bias.

• Action-minded with creative problem-solving skills — you can be agile and efficient at resolving issues and overcoming creative blocks.

• Self-aware — in a small team, empathy and humility are essential for success; you are happy to check your ego at the door.

• A real-deal listener — you listen to understand, with the mutual benefit of all always top of mind.

• High-signal & low-noise — you’re an excellent verbal and written communicator, with the ability to clearly and simply convey ideas and perspectives.

• Plugged in — you have an up-to-date understanding of design trends, culture and consumer behavior (a healthy obsession with human psychology is a plus).

• Solution-oriented — you have the ability to evolve yesterday’s solution to adapt to today’s challenges; embracing feedback and taking frequent change in stride.

• Highly organized — you can work autonomously and self-manage.

Required skills

These can come from any combination of education and experience:

• 6+ years of professional experience designing for brand, advertising, social and digital

• Creative agency experience strongly preferred

• Mastery over a range of visual forms of expression; typography, layout and composition, image-making, systems thinking and art direction, and motion direction

• Ability to tell a story through design language

• Confidence/comfort in presenting to both clients and creatives, both virtually and in person

• Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines and keep team(s) informed

The perks:

We’re invested in the wellbeing of our team and want to lead the growing movement that puts people back at the center of work. Here are some of the ways we are building a happy agency culture:

• Flexible schedule & paid time off when you need it

• Remote, forever (occasional in-person meetings and/or workshops may be required & will include travel, lodging & per diem)

• Flex Fridays (closed Fridays, 32-hour work week)

• Professional learning & development opportunities