What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Art Director position at MAKEUP BY MARIO?
ABOUT MAKEUP BY MARIO
Founded by world-renowned makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, Makeup by Mario is a fast-growing prestige beauty brand redefining artistry-driven makeup. With a powerful presence across leading global beauty retailers and direct-to-consumer channels, we deliver innovative, high-performance products rooted in artistry, craft, and education.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Reporting to the VP Creative, the Senior Social Art Director will lead cross-functional collaboration across the creative team to concept, execute and deliver high-impact creative for our social media platforms and paid media.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partner with VP Creative, VP Marketing, Social Media Manager and Public Relations Manager on concepting and art direction for all social media channels and paid social
- Owns output
- Lead concept ideation and visualization for social campaigns across platforms, aligned to NPL and evergreen creative cadences
- Drive visual research and trend interpretation across photography, video and social to maintain and grow platform engagement
- Collaborate with the production team to build shoot schedules, run-of-show documents and casting summaries
- Manage and mentor graphic designers, content creators, video editors and retouchers
ON SET
- Support the Creative Director and campaign Art Directors on secondary sets; oversee campaign and evergreen social and digital needs
- Manage social capture sets for on-figure, still-life and video
POST PRODUCTION
- Supervise designers in maintaining tight image and typography reproduction standards
- Oversee retouching and video post-production in partnership with the team to uphold high standards across all platforms
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Relevant art direction experience in beauty and/or fashion, including graphic design, concepting and on-set team management
- Social native with deep fluency in emerging trends across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; able to reinterpret for the brand environment
- Strong familiarity with beauty and lifestyle talent and the broader social community
- Knowledge of beauty and fashion photography and cinema is a strong asset
- Strong graphic design foundation with technical typography skills
- Proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere
- Post-production oversight experience across both still
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications or a related field — or equivalent professional experience
- 8 years of art direction experience, with significant time in beauty, fashion or lifestyle brands
- Proven track record concepting and executing social-first creative across social media channels
- Experience managing and directing creative teams including designers, editors and retouchers
- Strong on-set experience managing social capture for both still and video
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere
- Post-production oversight experience across still and video
Preferred
- Experience at a DTC, prestige beauty brand, or background in fashion preferred
- Familiarity with paid social creative requirements and platform specs
- Existing relationships within the beauty and lifestyle talent community
- Knowledge of beauty and fashion photography, casting and production
- Experience working within new product launch calendars and evergreen creative cadences
WHAT WE OFFER
- Hybrid - four days in office and one day remote
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), dependent care FSA
- Commuter benefits
- OneMedical membership
- Health Advocate, Talkspace and partnership with Kindbody
- Life insurance and supplemental life insurance
- 401k with company match
- Generous time off