Art Director
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
- United Arab Emirates
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ability to take and understand a brief from the clients or team members, with a clear understanding of project/campaign strategy
- Ability to brief and work with the client and Studio team to deliver high quality creative projects or campaigns
- Ability to build creative platforms and to independently develop small to medium size campaign from brief to client presentation
- Engage and support in planning of the FEED process in partnership with senior Studio team and Creative Strategists
- Building strong presentation skills for internal and external presentations
- Start building a direct relationship with key clients
- Proactive approach to understanding and learning client business and industry
- Challenge yourself and your team to find innovative, thought-provoking and 'Earned First' approaches to client briefs and opportunities
- Proactively expanding and deeply understanding the social, production, branding, experiential, and overall marketing mix
- Independently run small to medium size clients, with minimal guidance from ACDs/CDs.
- Work on new business opportunities with client team and Studio teams, taking responsibility for leading small to medium size opportunities
- Understanding creative budgets and resourcing
- Develop understanding of Studio budgeting process e.g. approval process, scoping, developing concepts to a budget, production budgeting
- Work to a schedule and budget, be able to prioritise, remain calm under pressure.
- Able to juggle projects and utilise time between projects
- Spotting and activating opportunities for organic growth.
- Inspire the team to reach a high standard of creative excellence
- Seek and share inspiration from the industry, arts, culture, news, thought leadership etc.
- Engage in constructive conversation about the brief and the deliverable, sharing a point of view on your work
- Work closely with the Studio leadership to support ongoing success of the studio
- Deliver trainings or workshops on key skills to other team members
- Strong line manages at least one designer or graduate designer
- Build strong relationships across the agency
- Have strong management skills to lead a team, be able to communicate visual ideas and be able to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Play a role in supporting and nurturing talent within the teams and throughout the agency
- Actively support and encourage people within the team to participate in the creative processes and to take pride in the work
- Act as an H+K ambassador internally and externally
- Be familiar with H+K social media and professional practices, and complete Maconomy on a weekly basis
- Technical understanding of current and emerging social media platforms
- Full understanding of Adobe suites (photoshop illustrator InDesign)
- Full understanding of Adobe suites (aftereffects and premier for multimedia designers)
- Ability to design in PPT and across Microsoft office suite
- Establish a sector or discipline or specialism area of expertise, and seek to continually upskill in this area and share expertise across the Studio
- Consistently attend training courses arranged by P+C or recommended by your line manager, including the H+K Way, Octave, etc.