Job Description

Our Client partners with leading product teams to create thoughtful digital experiences across mobile apps, web, and in-product surfaces. Their work balances usability, visual craft, and performance, helping users accomplish their goals while driving meaningful results for their clients.

They operate as a small, highly collaborative team, working closely with clients to bring clarity to complex ideas. From early exploration to final delivery, they focus on making each experience feel intuitive, polished, and consistent.

About the role:

They’re looking for an Art Director who can set a clear creative vision, guide designers, and stay closely involved in making the work. This role combines conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, and hands-on design across a variety of digital surfaces.

You’ll lead projects from brief through delivery, translating client goals into compelling creative directions and helping the team execute them consistently. You’ll partner directly with stakeholders, present and defend creative decisions, and maintain a high standard of craft across multiple projects.

They’re looking for someone who takes ownership, gives clear and actionable feedback, and knows when to guide the team and when to jump in.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead creative development across app stores, in-app experiences, web, and marketing channels.

• Translate briefs, audience insights, and business goals into distinct creative concepts and visual directions.

• Establish the visual approach for campaigns and product storytelling, including app store screenshots, in-app events, and performance creative.

• Guide designers through concept development and execution, providing feedback that strengthens the work and builds their skills.

• Create hands-on design explorations and key assets that establish the standard for production.

• Direct storyboards, visual treatments, and design for promos, tutorials, and app preview videos.

• Present creative concepts to clients, explain design decisions, and turn stakeholder feedback into clear next steps.

• Oversee design quality through final delivery, including brand consistency, production accuracy, and animation handoffs.

• Develop and evolve design systems, brand guidelines, templates, and asset libraries that support efficient production.

• Partner with creative leadership and project managers to define scope, prioritize work, and deliver within agreed timelines.

• Bring relevant visual trends, tools, and techniques into the team’s work.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional digital design experience, including experience directing creative work and guiding other designers.

• A strong portfolio demonstrating original concepts, polished execution, and consistent creative direction across multiple assets or channels.

• Experience leading projects from initial brief through final delivery.

• Excellent command of layout, typography, color, composition, and visual storytelling.

• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Firefly.

• Ability to establish a creative direction and translate it into practical guidance others can execute.

• Confidence presenting work, explaining creative decisions, and navigating client feedback.

• Ability to connect design choices to audience needs, product value, and business goals.

• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and judgment when balancing quality, scope, and deadlines.

• Clear communication and experience collaborating with designers, animators, project managers, and client stakeholders.

Working style:

• Comfortable taking ownership and making creative decisions with limited oversight.

• Able to balance hands-on design with creative reviews and team guidance.

• Thoughtful and direct when giving feedback, with an openness to other perspectives.

• Comfortable working remotely with a distributed team.

• Available during Pacific Time working hours for collaboration.

• Able to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Comfortable working across tools like Dropbox, ClickUp, Frame.io, and Slack.

Nice to have:

• Experience with app store optimization (ASO), subscription monetization, or performance marketing creative.

• Proficiency in AI-assisted creative workflows, using generative tools to explore concepts, develop visual assets, and streamline production.

• Experience working with large technology or enterprise brands.

• Motion and video expertise, including After Effects, Premiere, Lottie, or directing animation.

• Experience developing culturally relevant creative for regional markets and global audiences.

• Experience improving creative workflows through reusable systems, automation, or AI-assisted tools.

*This position is hybrid