Senior Art Director

<p>Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.&nbsp;</p> <p>We are hiring Senior Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with our internal Creative and Production teams, and the client, to design best-in-class digital experiences and solutions. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may be for you.</p> <p>These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.&nbsp;</p> <p>Candidates should have:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience in digital design and art direction, leading projects and initiatives, and consistently delivering pixel perfect designs, while innovating work across a variety of industries</li> <li>Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners, and some experience mentoring more junior team members</li> <li>Strong client collaboration and management skills, with a proven ability to present and defend design strategies to senior-level clients and stakeholders</li> <li>Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus, with the ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies</li> <li>While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies</li> </ul> <p>We’d like to know that you can:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions—consistently exceeding project goals and setting new creative benchmarks</li> <li>Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences</li> <li>Proactively stay ahead of emerging design practices and technologies, identifying and integrating industry trends to elevate both design quality and user experience across projects</li> <li>Champion and refine agile design processes, establishing best practices and raising the bar for design standards throughout the organization</li> <li>Serve as both a collaborative team lead, and a highly proactive individual contributor, inspiring others through example and initiative</li> <li>Actively solicit, interpret, and integrate feedback from diverse sources, leveraging it to enhance design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers</li> </ul> <p><em>The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - $170k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.</em></p>