Art Director

Job Description

Are you obsessed with bold creative and marketing approaches that drive cut-through design and deliver business results?

We are looking for an experienced, well-rounded Art Director to support campaign ideation and development as part of a dynamic creative team. The ideal candidate has strong skills in both digital and print design and can develop big, engaging creative ideas that connect with shoppers across multiple channels and experiences. These include retail windows and in-store fixtures, retail events, physical and digital activations, and digital campaigns, with a particular focus on paid social platforms such as Meta and TikTok.

Core responsibilities

The Art Director is responsible for concepting and designing campaigns for 3rd party retailers and LEGO-owned retail channels. Working with creative direction, you will bring the ideas to life, solving marketing challenges and design best-in-class brand expressions and experiences across ecommerce, digital marketing, social media channels, email, activations, window displays and in-store point of sale.

Conceptualize new campaign ideas that are shopper-focused and deliver a premium and memorable experience for shoppers and consumers.

• Taking directions from Creative leads and Strategist on the creative brief, create content across marketing levers and for multi-channel execution.
• Actively participate in brainstorm sessions with the creative team to develop concept proposals.
• Support the development of concepts that solve business problems and meet marketing objectives with thoughtful campaign tactics and compelling design.
• Present concepts and ideas to senior creative staff in a clear and compelling manner, articulating and defending creative direction choices, collaborate and iterate based on feedback from cross-functional partners.
• Collaborate across the team with Project Managers, Strategist, Copywriter, and the Creative team to meet campaign milestones and deliverables.
• Collaborate with external vendors including illustrators, 3D artists, motion graphics and video specialists, structural engineers, etc. to ensure highest level of campaign execution.
• Ensure a high standard of visual execution across all work and within all brand guidelines.
• Stay on top of industry trends, design technology, and new marketing platforms.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Commerce team within Our LEGO Agency, in-house creative agency, brings the retail marketing strategy to life for shoppers and consumers. The Art Director plays a key role in concepting, designing, and delivering those campaigns and experiences.

Do you have what it takes?

• Substantial relevant campaign experience, that includes strong design skills and knowledge of art directing internal and external partners and vendors.

• Experience from an external advertising agency, designing for global brands, preferably retail or retailer marketing

• Experience producing video content for social media channels

• Portfolio must reflect strong conceptual and design skills; a link to an online portfolio showcasing relevant work

• Must be an expert level in following applications: Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects), Figma and Microsoft Office.

• Proven track record of delivering bold, effective campaign concepts across mediums: digital, traditional and experiential

• Ability to self-direct, multi-task, prioritize work assignments.

• Strong communications skills and an ability to present work intelligently and concisely in internal reviews and in stakeholder meetings.

• A deep understanding of the creative development process and ability to consistently deliver excellent work based on a working knowledge of what goes into successful marketing campaigns

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multi-discipline teams.

Additional details on this position

• This is a Lead Professional level role based at 1001 Boylston St in Boston, MA.
• Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3-day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
• There will be no relocation assistance for this role.

Compensation

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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