The Brand Collective, Inc.

The Brand Collective is a full-service Branding/Web/Marketing/PR & Events Agency located in Miami, Florida specialized in working alongside hospitality and lifestyle brands and driven to create authentic brand experiences through design, strategy, digital, media, influencer marketing, content development, social media and public relations. We are currently looking for a Creative Art Director, to join our team.

The Creative Art Director should be a conceptual thinker who passionately delivers amazing creative brand experiences for both clients and internal initiatives. The selected candidate will support a strong team and is highly skilled in defining and executing design styles based on brand planning and strategy. The ideal candidate will be outgoing, engaged and have a passion for our industry as well as an insatiable desire to create, continue to learn and explore emerging trends while aligning with our core mantra:

We are modern day storytellers, telling stories through beautiful design, words, and thought. Immersed in culture and art, we live to create intuitive brand connections and iconic brands.

Key Competencies & Responsibilities:

• Support the agency’s design workflow and delivery of all creative projects in unison all other departments (marketing, digital, web, and media);
• Shows leadership qualities and provides team motivation and inspiration while clearly communicating the artistic vision and values of the agency to all team members;
• Ability to work on multiple projects at one time while managing time efficiently;
• Ability to concept and design for a wide range of mediums and diverse industries;
• Maintains best practices for file and server management, including the consistent application of naming conventions, project workflow tools and file/folder organization;
• Ensures the timely development and execution of plans, campaigns, and projects to assure visuals, earnings, growth, and agency goals are achieved;
• Always creatively progressive through the application of new media and fresh, inventive visual work;
• Maintains the agency’s standards of creative excellence and has the desire to produce award-winning creative for each project at hand;
• Responsible for evaluating agency processes, work flow, rate card, award submissions, agency growth planning, and implementing changes as needed;
• Experience and/or knowledge when it comes to working closely with development and production teams both internally and externally;
• Knowledge and understanding of web and UX/UI design a plus;
• Working with brand planning and analytics to identify the most important audiences and key consumer touch points.

AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ALONGSIDE AN AWARD-WINNING TEAM

Skill Qualifications:

• Relevant agency or design experience – Proven record of expertise with design software applications and tools;
• Strong familiarity with branding and solid understanding of advertisement copywriting;
• Related internship experience preferred; 
• Comfortable using Adobe CS (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, etc.);
• Portfolio demonstrating talent in design;
• Project management skills, strong operational abilities, and demonstrated leadership and supervisory qualifications;
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment;
• MUST be a uniquely creative individual and conceptual thinker with out-of-the-box ideas and not looking to conform to the norm;
• Excellent presentation skills, can present to both clients and peers;
• Passion and understanding for progressive innovative trends and technologies;
• Must be self-motivated, enthusiastic and show a willingness to go the extra mile to deliver an amazing project, amazing work ethic;
• Outgoing, energetic and able to communicate clearly with teams;
• Reliability and discretion: you will often learn of confidential matters;
• Print experience necessary;
• Project budgeting skills;
• Excellent reporting skills;
• Multiple languages a plus.

The Brand Collective, Inc.