What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Creative Director, Art Direction position at iris?
Associate Creative Director, Art Director
Location: New York, NY
Hybrid: 3 days in-office per week
Purpose
You will be responsible for conceptualizing, creating, and producing compelling creative
ideas that resonate with target audiences and align with our clients' brand identities.
Responsibilities
● Able to function as a leader in the conception, design, and creation of content for
television, print, websites, and multimedia creative on projects assigned by the
Group Creative Director.
● Ability to ensure the quality, craft, and implementation of all work done on given
projects.
● Create exceptional advertising concepts and take responsibility for the art
direction
● Demonstrates the ability to share a compelling POV and sell work to internal
stakeholders and external clients.
● Understands the Client’s business, brand, products, and their customers.
● Must be a player/coach, still creating much of their own work while delegating
and mentoring those around them to produce attention-getting content.
● Is responsible for presenting to clients when needed and structuring selling
arguments for work.
● Strategize with the brand team to anticipate problems, analyze solutions, identify
alternatives, and suggest recommendations.
● Partners with Group Creative Directors and Strategy to inform creative strategies
that will lead to great work.
● Collaborates with other departments, account management, strategy and clients
to ensure extraordinary work.
● Remains current with and ahead of creative trends in the industry & culture.
Competencies
Creative Stewardship. A high standard of creative work that is award-winning is
applauded by the industry and appreciated by existing clients and new business
prospects.
Relationship Management. A professional role model with a positive influence who
motivates colleagues. Ability to collaborate with all key stakeholders across all offices.
Cultural Leader. Help activate and foster the McKinney culture and serve as a
McKinney Brand Ambassador to the advertising industry.
Professional Skills and Knowledge
● Demonstrates excellent communication, selling, and presentation skills and
strong relationship and customer service skills.
● Strong multidisciplinary creative portfolio demonstrating proficiency in content
creation, photography, graphic design, motion graphics, and illustration
● Strong understanding of various social media platforms, their unique audiences,
and content requirements.
● Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After
Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
● Background in art direction
Experience
The ideal candidate has 6-10 years of experience in advertising; exceptions are made
based on the level of work pertaining to creative product and creative management
abilities. Presentation of a strong personal creative portfolio.
Training
In art, design, photography, journalism, videography or related fields is a plus.
About Iris
Participate or perish. It’s not just our rallying cry – it’s a creative imperative. Iris is the global creative micro-network built for brands that refuse to blend in. With 650 people across 11 offices, we help clients like Samsung, adidas, Bentley, California Pizza Kitchen, Beiersdorf and Samsonite show up in culture with work that stands apart. Powered by Participation, and brought to life across paid, earned and owned media, our agency model is big enough to be dangerous, small enough to stay agile. Founded outside the ad establishment in 1999, Iris has always been defined by its outsider mindset – one that still drives our mission today.