Art Director in California

The Shipyard is a leading, independent agency that builds performance-driven brands audiences can’t help but love.

By applying modern mindsets to established models, we fuel brand and marketing decisions that are more courageous and more validated.

Our ability to align bold creativity with individual consumer motivations lets us do more than hope for brand love – we methodically engineer it throughout the consumer journey. That’s how we activate the synergistic power of brand building and performance marketing.

Engineering Brand Love through the courageous ambitions of our people and our clients.

The agency has significant momentum and is on a roll with new business. Our team continues to expand across four cities (Columbus, Newport Beach,...

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Art Director who will contribute to and oversee excellent social first creative. Translate complex conceptual and strategic ideas into culturally relevant and high fidelity design solutions. This person speaks, lives, and loves taking part in cultural moments

WE ARE 

A creative agency powered by social connections. That means we thrive on what’s trending and creating campaigns that get people buzzing. We call it “Ideas Worth Talking About,” and we've proud to have played a part in some of the most culturally relevant campaigns of the decade for brands like McDonald’s, Adidas, Universal Studios, and YouTube.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE

• We like to laugh, we live for celeb gossip and we’re great on AUX.
• Our passport program lets you explore and work from one of our 18 other offices worldwide, including Paris, Singapore, Madrid, Dubai, London...

About the FRONT ROW Group:

At Front Row, we partner with leading brands to accelerate their ecommerce growth. We leverage our capabilities and proprietary technology to design, market, distribute and accelerate brands on a global scale. 

We’re continually cultivating functional areas of expertise and retaining the highest caliber of talent — while sharing knowledge and data, creating efficiencies, and looking at every aspect of our client’s business from a 360 perspective. 

We work effectively to give every client the hands-on support, niche knowledge, and first-access they need to win in the world’s most competitive commerce markets and make each of our six capabilities the first to act on the next big things.

We live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and we’ve made it our mission to expand every brand’s market share and heart share. Because we believe every...

We are looking for a Senior Art Director who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves the challenge of discovering engaging and innovative content that genuinely excites our target audience. You’ll be the hands-on visionary involved in creating impactful social, digital and brand activation campaigns, from concept to execution, working on a design-savvy team and across clients to help brands effectively tell their story through various channels.

In this specific role, we're looking for a Freelance Sr. Art Director with a strong background designing for social, and motion expertise is essential! We are looking for immediate availability through November, with possible extension through the end of the year. Must be based in Los Angeles.

If you are passionate about all of the small things and are eager to get your hands dirty with ever-evolving work across various projects, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Create and...

We are looking for an Art Director who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves the challenge of discovering engaging and innovative content that genuinely excites our target audience. You’ll be the hands-on visionary involved in creating impactful social, digital and brand activation campaigns, from concept to execution, working on a design-savvy team and across clients to help brands effectively tell their story through various channels.

We’ll depend on you for the development of our offering; championing and selling creative work, actively evolving design strategies which promote excellence, and translating marketing and branding strategies into fresh and impressive campaigns. All this while always acting as the guardian of quality and overall look and feel.

If you are passionate about all of the small things and are eager to get your hands dirty with ever-evolving work across various projects, we’d like to meet...

As a Senior Art Director, you’re in the business of ideas. Above all, you must know your craft and love marketing. You should be practiced in creating relevant visual design for multiple platforms. You’ll be called upon to art direct in a variety of mediums – direct response pieces, multi-channel ad campaigns, brand identity development, collateral, websites, social posts, broadcast, email campaigns – you get the picture. You’ll partner with a myriad of creative people, including writers, creative directors, videographers and editors, along with strategists, digital producers and client service to build strong conceptual work that gets results. Discipline and meeting deadlines are key. Multi-tasking is a must. But you’ll never have to go it alone. You’ll be an integral part of a creative team that brings out the best in each other and delivers insightful, unexpected messaging with a purpose. Sometimes you’ll have to sell your ideas to team members, client...

The Jr Art Director will lead the visual and artistic direction of all marketing campaigns and materials. This role requires a highly creative individual with a strong eye for design, a deep understanding of fashion aesthetics, and the ability to bring brand visions to life through compelling visual storytelling. The Creative Art Director will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive and impactful brand messaging across all channels.

Key Responsibilities:

Creative Direction:

• With Sr Director, create and oversee the visual concepts for all marketing campaigns, ensuring they align with the brand’s identity and strategic goals.
• Develop high-quality visuals, including photography, videography, graphics, and layouts.
• Ensure that all creative assets are executed flawlessly, maintaining consistency and quality across all marketing materials.

Design and Production:

• Manage the end-to-end...

The Art Director is responsible for design and creative strategy on Agency campaigns for various clients & brands, with the end goal of creating campaigns and concepts that have a positive impact on the consumer. We are looking for someone to work a temporary assignment with us starting in October for 4-5 months.

Responsibilities

• Manage, direct, and work alongside the Agency’s design and creative teams to meet and surpass client goals and objectives
• Create and manage the production of design mocks for social & digital campaigns, websites and custom applications, print, packaging, presentations, internal documents, brand identity and more
• Participate in new client business pitches and strategies
• Communicate well with cross functional teams and with clients to accomplish desired goals and objectives
• Work with the Agency’s creative leadership to establish brand and campaign guidelines and overall...

Raindrop is a fast-growing agency and the leader in Marketing People Love.  We are looking for a contracting Senior Art Director who is a talented mix of creative, strategy, and communication. As a contracting Senior Art Director, you will be responsible for developing concepts, directing visual executions, and styling video and photo shoots.

The ideal contractor follows design and creative trends in the industry, communicates effectively across departments, can ideate and present creative concepts, and believes in the effectiveness of a distinct and engaging brand.

In this  role, you will work closely with the Copy, Social and Production Teams to help guide the art direction from concept to execution for our video and photo productions to ensure assets are optimized to meet creative excellence and client needs. You will sometimes be required to be on set for production days.

If you are a strategic leader and motivated self-starter...

Omelet, an award-winning, independent creative agency with a growing and exciting client roster, is seeking an energetic and driven Junior Art Director for its Culver City headquarters location (currently hybrid, on-site 2x a week).

Candidates must be based in Los Angeles.

The Junior Art Director will help develop concepts and execute artwork and copy for campaigns across a variety of projects for digital, social, broadcast, and OOH. We are looking for a candidate who has a strong eye for design, experience building presentation decks, and is able to interpret a creative brief. The Junior Art Director is culturally curious, able to multi-task, and thrives on providing options.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Keep up to date with popular culture and trends
• Develop design concepts into art layouts and prepares layouts
• Work on several campaigns at once
• Participate in strategic creative...

ORGANIZATION

Since 2009, Goethe International Charter School (GICS) has been offering a unique learning program with an international focus. GICS is a tuition-free independent charter school located in Los Angeles and authorized by LAUSD that provides a rigorous curriculum for all students that challenges the mind and nourishes the heart. Named after poet, playwright, and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced “Gurta”) GICS is an authorized International Baccalaureate World School and includes dual language German immersion and Language Acquisition (Spanish and German) programs which underscore the school’s global perspective. Goethe International Charter School has earned recognition as a California Distinguished School in 2023 and 2014, a Gold Ribbon School in 2016, a Green Ribbon School in 2017, and has also earned full accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Its approach to learning is based on Inquiry...

Pay Range: $60,000 to $80,000

Red Tettemer O'Connell + Partners, a Mod Op Company, is a full service agency that stops at nothing to make its clients unforgettable. They build ideas on every platform and through every discipline from Brand Planning to Interactive; PR, Social Media and Community Building to Design; and Media Planning and Buying to Broadcast Production. Within its red walls, storytellers and trailblazers build brands on every platform you can think of…and some you can’t.

Can you make people say, “wow” without saying a word? Do you want to invent new ways to take people’s breath away? Do you defend the beauty of an idea to its death but then become immediately determined to beat it the moment it dies?

We're looking for an Art Director based in Los Angeles, CA who will conceptualize, create, and implement visual and aesthetic direction of client projects from ideation to completion. The work ranges from social media assets...

Title : Senior Art Director 

Reporting to: Associate Creative Director 

Location: Hybrid – Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago 

Contract: Full Time 

Hours of work: 37.5/week 

We are looking for a Senior Art Director who thrives in a dynamic environment and loves the challenge of discovering engaging and innovative content that genuinely excites our target audience. You’ll be the hands-on visionary involved in creating impactful social, digital and brand activation campaigns, from concept to execution, working on a design-savvy team and across clients to help brands effectively tell their story through various channels. 

Role

We’ll depend on you for the development of our offering; championing and selling creative work, actively evolving design strategies that promote excellence, and translating marketing and branding strategies into fresh and impressive campaigns. All this while always acting as the...

Drake Cooper is seeking a midweight creative team – a Copywriter and an Art Director – to join our creative department. This team will collaborate closely to develop and execute a full range of creative concepts that align with our clients' objectives. The ideal candidates will possess a blend of artistic vision, exemplary writing skills, and the ability to transform ideas into powerful visual and verbal narratives. 

At this time we are looking for TEAM applicants so grab your partner and apply together. Include both resume/LinkedIn links and portfolio links.

Preference will be given to Los Angeles-based candidates but we will consider candidates remote from WA & OR. The client is a Fortune 50 Energy Company.

Salary: $70,000 - $120,000 for each position

Responsibilities:

• Concept Development: Work together to brainstorm and conceptualize creative solutions for campaigns, ensuring they meet client briefs and objectives.
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ABOUT THE SHIPYARD

The Shipyard is a leading, independent agency that builds performance-driven brands audiences can’t help but love.

By applying modern mindsets to established models, we fuel brand and marketing decisions that are more courageous and more validated.

Our ability to align bold creativity with individual consumer motivations lets us do more than hope for brand love – we methodically engineer it throughout the consumer journey. That’s how we activate the synergistic power of brand building and performance marketing.

Engineering Brand Love through the courageous ambitions of our people and our clients.

The agency has significant momentum and is on a roll with new business. Our team continues to...

Raindrop is a fast-growing agency and the leader in Marketing People Love.  We are looking for an Art Director who is a talented mix of creative, strategy, and communication. As an Art Director, you will be responsible for developing concepts, directing visual executions, and styling video and photo shoots.

The ideal candidate follows design and creative trends in the industry, communicates effectively across departments, can ideate and present creative concepts, and believes in the effectiveness of a distinct and engaging brand.

In this  role, you will work closely with the Copy, Social and Production Teams to guide the art direction from concept to execution for our video and photo productions to ensure assets are optimized to meet creative excellence and client needs. You will sometimes be required to be on set for production days.

If you are a strategic leader and motivated self-starter eager to hit the ground running and solve...

Job brief:

We are looking for a creative Art Director who enjoys working in a fast paced environment and loves the challenge of discovering what makes brands vibe and become inspired by their visual identity and culture. You will cooperate with a design-savvy team to devise an overall concept.

The Art Director conceptualizes and executes innovative, well designed studio deliverables in close collaboration with the Chief Creative Officer, Project Managers Managers, and Digital Brand Director. Participates in campaign strategy and kickoff sessions. Develops a wide range of marketing materials, including email template ad designs, brochures, website graphics, landing pages, tablet apps, trade show graphics and others. The Art Director takes ownership to ensure all marketing collateral meets branding guidelines and timelines, and provides direction to external resources when needed. He/She also mentors other creative team members and...

Company Overview:

Our growing team is seeking an Art Director to join our squad of socially-led thinkers, doers and creators. We are looking for a first-class AD who can create groundbreaking, culture shifting digital and social work that helps us drive our vision to make Ideas Worth Talking About. This candidate (hopefully you) should be fluent in tasteful design and aesthetics. They’ll know that a good idea only becomes great when you make authentic connections that spark real conversations.

What you’ll do:

You will contribute to, and oversee, excellent digital and social design work for clients within the Entertainment industry. You are not only absolutely obsessed with the latest and greatest tv shows, movies and have all the different streaming services, but you’re also extremely active on social platforms, especially Instagram and TikTok, and are in tune with all the latest digital memes and social trends. You...

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About XQ Institute

XQ Institute is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to rethinking the high school experience so that every student graduates ready to succeed in life. We work in communities throughout the country, with individual schools and entire school systems, to help them dream big about what high school could be, turn their innovative ideas into action, and create more rigorous and equitable schools. We share what’s working with other schools and districts, so they can tailor new models to the needs of their own students and communities. We know that seeing is believing, so we meet people where they are to share the importance and possibility of change through listening, learning, and storytelling. And our open-source tools, based on research and design thinking, empower people to take up the challenge of transforming their high schools with a unifying goal: unlocking the American promise of a high-quality education for...