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Senior Art Director

Synergy Interactive
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/11/2025 CLOSED ON 1/9/2026

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Role Overview

As Senior Art Director, you will help bring the brand rollout to life — executing, refining, and elevating the creative vision of a company launching a new global standard for digital trust. You will work hand‑in‑hand with senior creative leadership to take direction, translate ideas with intention and accuracy, and ensure that every visual touchpoint feels premium, modern, and unmistakable.


Your work will influence:

  • Market perception
  • Investor narrative
  • Enterprise adoption
  • Government communication
  • Global partnership messaging
  • The company’s long‑term position in culture


What You’ll Own:

  • Partner directly with senior creative leadership to translate strategy, guidance, and vision into clear, high‑quality design.
  • Support and collaborate with Graphic Designers, offering direction, feedback, and hands‑on design contributions across all projects.
  • Uphold a creative culture grounded in strong taste, precision, and consistent execution.
  • Translate strategic brand positioning into campaigns, visuals, product narratives, and launch moments.
  • Help build design systems that scale across enterprise, consumer, government, and platform‑facing channels.
  • Ensure all creative output reinforces the brand’s positioning: powerful, innovative, sovereign, and premium.
  • Develop design concepts for major launch initiatives, storytelling arcs, and key brand moments.
  • Create magazine‑quality decks, brand books, and visual narratives that incorporate research, insights, and inspiration.
  • Present directly to senior creative leadership with clarity, conviction, and strategic insight.
  • Uphold strong creative standards while moving with the speed the company requires.
  • Deliver multiple creative routes for each brief — always offering elevated options beyond the ask.
  • Ensure version control, organization, and clarity across all creative workstreams.


Who You Are: A high‑taste, detail‑driven art director who combines strong visual instincts with strategic awareness and fast, organized execution.


Experience

  • 7 years in art direction, visual design, or brand design roles.
  • Experience contributing to high‑impact creative campaigns or global product launches.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates world‑class design systems, typography, visuals, and presentation design.


Skills

  • Understands direction quickly and executes with intention, clarity, and the appropriate design process.
  • Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and presentation design (PowerPoint/Keynote).
  • Ability to translate technical ideas into compelling visual narratives.
  • Superb communication and leadership abilities.


Traits

  • High taste and high standards.
  • Organized, velocity‑driven, and detail‑obsessed.
  • Comfortable working directly with top leadership.
  • Thrives in a fast‑paced, high‑ambition environment.
  • Excited to build a category‑defining brand from the ground up.

Salary : $90,000 - $120,000

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