Art Director

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.

While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!

We are seeking an Art Director to work closely with our Copywriter to conceptualize across various channels for fully integrated campaigns. In this role, you will help to develop outstanding, social-first creative ideas for client campaigns and guide the end-to-end creative process from conceptualization through production. You love to bring ideas to life with authenticity, insight, and enthusiasm — developing strategic creative ideas and concepts that are forward-thinking and innovative with feed-interrupting design and art direction. 

What You'll Do Here:

• Develop and support a range of integrated creative campaigns for brands across varying industries
• Synthesize relevant research, best practices, trending topics and intuition to produce creative concepts that align with a brand’s KPI’s
• Connect and collaborate with fellow creatives and strategists to develop innovate and executable marketing solutions with touchpoints in social media and digital mediums, influencer marketing, experiential marketing and more
• Develop creative campaigns that are supported by a strong strategic narrative
• Comfortably vary design, style, and other characteristics asked by our brand clients
• Maintain a high-quality of creative output and content development aligned with evolving trends, audience centricity and high propensity/performance
• Support creative presentations to clients/team members contributing to the communication of ideas in a way that sells them to our clients
• Support with full-service content productions (when necessary).

You'll Need To Have:

• 3-5 years experience in the social media and digital marketing field (agency experience preferred)
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment & commitment to excellence
• Exceptional art direction and design skills that translate into digital and social advertising campaigns – IG, FB, Tiktok, LinkedIn, etc.
• Excels at direct client interaction with the ability to build relationships and lead presentations
• Comfortable with designing visuals and writing ideas
• Distinctly creative and obsessed about how ideas can be bigger, and better
• Excellent organizational skills with a keen eye for detail 
• Passion and understanding of today’s social media landscape and the best practices as it relates to each unique platform
• Experience overseeing junior creatives, video editors, and vendors
• A knack for picking up different brand guidelines, understanding why they work and switching between them quickly
• Experience in big productions, everything from early stages of storyboarding to location selection, casting selection, choosing and working with directors to bring to life a concept, to postproduction

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.